Napkkin

Napkkin enhances the face-to-face networking experience to make live networking more interactive, fun and productive for users!

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Mobile
  • Location San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded February 2012
  • Employees 2
  • Website napkkin.com

Company Summary

Napkkin provides an all-in-one app on Android and iPhone for simplifying the live networking experience. The mobile app lets users quickly swap contacts via QR code scanning, manage their contacts, take notes about conversations and check-in to events. Napkkin also provides event organizers tools to sync with the mobile app, so they can brand their event, promote sponsors live with prizes&giveaways for attendees that network via Napkkin.

Team

  • Jim Chet Huang
    Co-founder

    Jim is a hacker, data scientist and musician with a PhD from University of Toronto in electrical engineering and computer science. His specialities include machine learning, statistics, data science and software development (iOS/Android/web). Jim was a Microsoft Researcher where he developed statistical machine learning algorithms (and published many award-winning papers) for genome-wide association studies, population genetics, virology and imm

  • Vill Sithivong
    Co-founder

    Vill was at State Farm Insurance as a Marketing Coordinator for 4 years and she was responsible for event organization, targeting sales, marketing and retention. Before that she built and ran a restaurant business leading a team of 8 for over 10 years. Over the years, she has spent a lot of face time with customers to understand their needs and behaviors.

Previous Investors

  • Private angel
    Unconfirmed

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