Punto

"Square for latam": Develop and commercialize Mobile Points of Sale to let merchants accept card payments with smartphones.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Financial Services
  • Location Miami, FL, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Employees 5
  • Website puntolatam.com

Company Summary

Activity: Develop and commercialize mobile points of sale (software development and integration, marketing). Relevance: Enable the use of card payments in more places and reduce employee cash-handling and payer queues. Customers: Merchants (both independent and chains), including food delivery, door-to-door sales organizations, cab drivers and stores that wish to reduce queue time.

Team

  • S. Cohen
    CEO

    Experienced in mobile payments and product launches
    • Mobile Payments Start-up in Palo Alto, California
    • Management Consulting at Oliverr Wyman, NY
    • Product Launches at Procter & Gamble Latam and Microsoft

    Academics:
    • Systems Engineer, cum laude, at Universidad Metropolitana (Caracas)
    • MBA at Harvard Business School

  • B. Polania
    VP Infrastructure and Payments

    Seasoned entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience in the mobile payments industry:
    • CTO and co-founder at Movil+, sold at $1MM USD
    • PFE at Motorola Latam

    Academics:
    • Informatic Engineering at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Caracas)

  • A. Lapscher
    VP Software

    • Senior software engineer with 5+ years of experience
    • M.S and B.S. (Highest honors) in Computer Engineering at GeorgiaTech

  • Samuel Cohen

Previous Investors

  • Gabriel Sternberg
    Unconfirmed
    CEO of TC3 (Main payments technology provider in Venezuela and Colombia)
    Unconfirmed

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