Give Plus
Give Plus is Paypal for social micropayments and givings. By combining popular social actions with micropayments we monetize users emotions.
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Internet / Web Services
- Location Palo Alto, CA, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded April 2012
- Employees 5
- Website GiveaHeart.com
Company Summary
Give Plus is symbiosis of Micropayment system and Social integration. We aggregate user's micropayments (1 cent - $5) in order to decrease Visa\Mastercard interchange commission %. It empowers social media economics enabling microgiving\causing of user-generated content and micro-purchasing of digital content online. Our goal is monetization of users emotions and building of social payments graph out of Facebook, Twitter, Google+ social graphs.
Team
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Igor KhmelCEO
- Stanford MBA ’11
- Masters in physics and journalism
- ex-McKinsey, Citadel Investment
- All-Ukrainian High School CS Olympiad Winner
- founded newspaper
- strategy consultant for one of top-30 global banks in alternative payment systems -
Vladimir LebedevCTO
- 20 years in IT/15 as CTO
- ex-CTO of Russian stock exchange, Orange, Lucent
- BS in math
- Made first public Internet hub in Russia in 1990 (FidoNet)
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