TAPTIN

TAPTIN clones mobile apps for malls and provides merchants with their own apps. The platform enables us to ship IT services to them.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Mobile
  • Location Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded January 2009
  • Employees 6
  • Website taptin.com

Company Summary

TAPTIN provides mobile SaaS to Buy Local groups and merchants without IT support. We provide mobile apps to pull shoppers to the merchants. Each merchant also gets a personalized mobile web app for free. Merchants sign-in to manage content and promotions and to opt-in to other services. We charge the groups a one-time $99 setup fee and $299 per mobile app. We make money selling services to merchants later.

Team

  • Kevin Leong
    Founder & CEO

    A seasoned entrepreneur and technologist who championed software reuse and C++ at IBM where he and his team commercialized C++ class libraries. After his MBA at UC Berkeley, he was involved in two startups. Proxinet was successfully exited through an acquisition by PumaTech. He also taught software engineering at San Jose State University. He is involved in the family's small business since he was 15 years old.

  • German Serrano
    Founder & Chief Engineer

    A solid Java developer, who worked on Android from day one, German also wrote and iterated TAPTIN's multi-tiered cloud SaaS infrastructure. He holds a Bachelor's and Master's in Software Engineering from San Jose State University. He was a student of Kevin Leong.

  • Eric Liang
    Founder & Chief Mobile Developer

    Eric was also a former student of Kevin at San Jose State University where he earned his Master's in Software Engineering. He has worked on the iOS platform from its inception. He holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Manchester. Eric works from Guangzhou, China.

  • Jim Asiano & Kevin Leong
    The USA BizDev Team

    Jim brings years of sales and bizdev experience in the Bay Area. Jim's MBA is from Univ. del CEMA, and he earned his undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley.

  • Angela Tao & Camilla Yu
    The China Team

    Angela founded YYOSSO and another fashion branding strategy company in China, which she has successfully exited. She holds an MBA from the Univ. of South Australia and a computer degree from Jilin University. Camilla's background is advertising. She previously worked at GroupM Shanghai. She holds an MA from the Univ. of Texas.

  • Joshua Hsu
    The China Operation Team

    Joshua supervises the new app setup, data entry and customer support team in China.

  • David Escabo Dan Alexandra
    The Quito Operation Team

    David and Dan designed all the graphics and provided setup support for the beta customers.

Advisors

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman - Palo Alto & Shanghai
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Friends & Family
    Unconfirmed

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