PointSocial

Online rewards platform that rewards consumers for making socially responsible purchases and connects them with responsible businesses.

  • Stage Product In Development
  • Industry Consumer Products
  • Location Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded June 2013
  • Employees 2
  • Website pointsocial.org

Company Summary

PointSocial is an online platform that allows consumers interested in making socially responsible purchases to accumulate and redeem rewards points when they buy from socially responsible vendors. PointSocial uses a proprietary index of social performance, the PointSocial Responsibility Index (PRI), to rate companies and distributes this information a single, accessible location.

Team

  • Josh Zoffer
    Co-Founder

    Josh Zoffer, a rising senior at Harvard, is an aspiring business leader and social entrepreneur. He spent this past summer as a Summer Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company in New York. He has conducted substantial research on corporate social responsibility during his time at Harvard, including working with Fortune 500 companies to investigate and improve their in-house CSR programs.

  • Shomik Ghosh
    Co-Founder

    Shomik Ghosh is a creative designer and an aspiring social enterprise leader. He spent this past summer working on content strategy at RecycleBank, a sustainability-oriented start-up and registered B Corporation. As a student at NYU, he founded GGW Design, a design group focusing on brand identity and logo creation. He has worked on web design for Columbia University and plans to apply his brand creation skills at PointSocial.

  • Josh Zoffer

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