Chapulín by Oak Financial

Mobile Transfers for Latin America

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Financial Services
  • Location Redwood City, CA, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded December 2012
  • Employees 10
  • Website oakfinancialcorp.com

Company Summary

Chapulín™ inspires underbanked U.S. Hispanics to make the most of their money, offering them mobile remittances and international prepaid products in alliance with other brands that they trust. We are currently in beta and have $1.3M of capital paid, and are seeking $1.7M to close our Seed round at a post-money valuation of $6M.

Team

  • Co-Founder, COO

    Mr. Hintz graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from Notre Dame in 2013. He is passionate about and has 5 years of mobile application development and design. He heads up product development for Oak Financial and oversees day-to-day operations of the company.

  • Founder, CEO, Chairman

    15+ years of leadership in large software research & development. Tenured professor of Computer Science & Engineering at Notre Dame, on leave. Experience fundraising (>$10 million) and leading geographically distributed teams at Stanford and Notre Dame. Author of 3 patents and more than 60 peer-reviewed publications.

  • Mr. Adams has 35+ years of CFO, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, including Omni Hotels and Cambridge Financial Group. He has raised over $3 billion for financial institutions and $20 million for startups. He is also a public lecturer on banking and cross-border payments.

  • Chief Compliance Officer

    Ms. Hennessy worked as the Executive Vice President and Manager in Marketing, Strategy and Information Management, Cross-Sell and International Personal Banking at Wells Fargo. She was instrumental in bringing money transfer services to Wells Fargo. She has spoken extensively at conferences on topics including payments, authentication and retail banking.

  • S&M Director

    Ms. Rivera has over 30 years of experience selling and marketing to Hispanics, as well as training sales teams. She is a former top salesperson at World Wide Vacation Home sales. She is a Board Member & VP of external affairs at Latinos in Science & Technology Association (LISTA) NorCal Silicon Valley.

Advisors

  • Jeremy Reidy, Barnes & Thornburg, LLP, and Kevin Rooney, Cooley, LLP
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    John Farrell, Crowe Horwath, LLP
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Omega Overseas Investments, San Juan, Puerto Rico
    Unconfirmed
    Elevate Ventures, Indiana, United States
    Unconfirmed

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