MeritShare

MeritShare is the first social employee recognition service to help companies motivate their employees and drive results and reputation.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Business Products
  • Location Seattle, WA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded April 2012
  • Employees 2
  • Website meritshare.com

Company Summary

MeritShare is the first social and online employee recognition service to help companies motivate their employees to drive performance and reputation. MeritShare is an online software based solution giving every employee the power of appreciation with peer-based awards, gift cards, real-time social sharing, gamification features, and analytics to measure and improve performance. There are over 40 companies using MeritShare today.

Team

  • Travis Owen Pearl
    CTO

    Travis has worked in product and engineering at WhitePages.com, Tippr, Active Voice, and Microsoft. He attended The University of Washington and Northern Arizona University. He is fluent in Ruby on Rails, Linux, and SQL. He also founded the domain monetization service Avidify. You can find him on Twitter at @travispearl.

  • Kevin Clark Nakao
    CEO

    Kevin is the former President and COO of WhitePages, Inc, VP Marketing at Rhapsody, GM Mobile for RealNetworks, & founder/CEO of MusicBlitz. He writes for Mashable and TechCrunch on marketing and mobile, and won guest article of the year on TechFlash. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and BA Philosophy from Whitman College. You can find him on Twitter at @knakao.

Advisors

  • Focal Law Group
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Moss Adams
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • 9Mile Labs
    Unconfirmed
    Private Angel Investor
    Unconfirmed

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