More than 25% of US consumers regularly transact in cash and cash equivalents because they either dont have a bank account or choose not to rely on automatic payments, checks and credit cards. PayNearMe is the electronic cash-transaction network that enables these consumers to pay their rent, utility bills and loans, as well as transfer money, buy tickets, make online purchases and do much more with cash. Consumers can conveniently make payments 24/7 in their own neighborhood in less than 60 seconds at nearly 10,000 participating 7-Eleven and ACE Cash Express stores across the United States. There are no forms to fill out, and the users account with the biller is credited in real-time.
Numerous businesses such as property management companies, utility providers, self-storage operators, insurance providers, government services, telecom companies and financial institutions offer PayNearMe as a payment option to their customers. They choose PayNearMe because it eliminates the risks and operational costs of handling cash, and at the same time offers a convenient and reliable way for their cash-preferring customers to pay them.
At the core of PayNearMe is a flexible technology platform that’s designed to accommodate endless number of payment use-cases, as well as multiple integration and configuration options enabling businesses in any industry to start offering PayNearMe with minimal technical effort and no business process reengineering. With its proprietary embedded barcode technology, PayNearMe supports mobile, web, printed, magnetic card and in-bill (EBPP) payment options.
Danny Shader is the founder and CEO of PayNearMe. Earlier, Danny led Accept.com, the first consumer-to-consumer payment service that Amazon.com acquired in 1999, and Good Technology, Inc., which Motorola acquired in 2007.
Danny Shader is the founder and CEO of PayNearMe, the cash payment network. PayNearMe enables consumers who do not have a credit or debit card or who simply prefer cash to conduct remote business transactions safely and easily. Prior to PayNearMe, Danny served as CEO of Jasper Wireless, Inc. Before Jasper, Danny served as the President and CEO of Good Technology, Inc., the leader in standards-based enterprise wireless messaging and data access, which Motorola acquired in 2007. Before Good, Danny served as a vice president and general manager at Amazon.com, which he joined when Amazon acquired Accept.com, the first consumer-to-consumer payment services company, which Danny co-founded and led as CEO. Danny earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Danny Shader is the founder and CEO of PayNearMe, the cash payment network. PayNearMe enables consumers who do not have a credit or debit card or who simply prefer cash to conduct remote business transactions safely and easily.
Prior to PayNearMe, Danny served as CEO of Jasper Wireless, Inc. Before Jasper, Danny served as the President and CEO of Good Technology, Inc., the leader in standards-based enterprise wireless messaging and data access, which Motorola acquired in 2007. Before Good, Danny served as a vice president and general manager at Amazon.com, which he joined when Amazon acquired Accept.com, the first consumer-to-consumer payment services company, which Danny co-founded and led as CEO.
Danny earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Prakash is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience leading product strategy and technology vision in startups and high growth companies. Prior to joining Trinity, he was most recently the chief product officer at LifeLock where he was instrumental in driving member and revenue growth resulting in a successful IPO in 2012.
Prakash served as the senior VP of product management and engineering for Gaia Online, a teen and young adult avatar-based social gaming and community website. During his time there, he helped Gaia Online become one of the leaders in virtual goods and microtransactions.
Before working for Gaia Online, he was the VP of identity management and security products for Oracle, the worlds largest business software company. In the nine years before representing Oracle, he served as senior VP of products and technology at Oblix, whose products have been deployed by Fortune 500 companies to protect and secure mission-critical applications.
Jeff Jordan is Board Director of Wealthfront and a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz.
He was previously Chief Executive Officer and then executive chairman of OpenTable, where he led the company during a period of accelerated domestic and international growth and oversaw its initial public offering.
Prior to OpenTable, Jeff was President of PayPal and responsible for establishing the company as the global standard for online payments.
Earlier, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of eBay North America, overseeing eBay’s growth into one of the Internets leading commerce brands and driving the successful acquisitions of PayPal and Half.com.
Before joining eBay, Jeff was Chief Financial Officer of Hollywood Entertainment and President of Reel.com. He also worked as Senior Vice President of Finance for The Disney Stores at The Walt Disney Company.
Jeff holds an M.B.A.
Dan Levitan is co-founder and partner at Maveron. With over 25 years of experience in venture capital and the investment-banking world, Dan co-founded Maveron in 1998 alongside Howard Schultz, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Starbucks.
The duo saw an opportunity to finance innovative consumer companies to help them reach their full potential. Dan has led many Maveron investments, including Cranium, Potbelly Sandwich Works, Pinkberry, and zulily. He has directed many successful exits in the last ten years, including Auctionpay (acquired by Global Payments), Capella Education Company, Cranium (acquired by Hasbro), Quellos (acquired by BlackRock), Good Technology (acquired by Motorola), and Shutterfly).
Dan is also a board member for the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School.
Jon Callaghan, Managing Partner and Founder of True Ventures, founded True because he saw a gap in the market for experienced VC funding for the earliest stage companies. Having spent the majority of his career with these entrepreneurs, he knows what they need most in an investor: an experienced, valuable, and trustworthy partner. True strives to be this partner for every investment.
Jons long history with startups began in 1986 when he founded his first company, Mountain Bike Outfitters, Inc. Over the next several years, he would go on to co-found Chemdex Corporation with David Perry, now NexPrise Corporation (NASDAQ: NXPS), and Greenwich LLC, a streaming music company, which was acquired by iCast. Jons direct startup experience means hes seen the world many times from the entrepreneurs point of view. This is where hes most at home, and his vision and insight make him the entrepreneurs confidant.
With over 20 years as an entrepreneur, sales and financial services executive, Mark Britto is responsible for making BOKU the leading mobile payments platform.
Mark joins BOKU after six years as the CEO of Ingenio, a service marketplace and performance advertising company, which he led to a 2007 acquisition by AT&T.
Prior to Ingenio, Mark spent 4 years as SVP of worldwide services and sales at Amazon.com, where he signed landmark deals with brands such as Toys R Us, Borders, Circuit City and Target.
Mark’s first start-up, Accept.com, was bought by Amazon.com in 1999 and served as the primary backbone of Amazon’s global payments platform.
Mark began his career in senior credit and risk management roles at leading national banks FirstUSA and Bank of America.
William “Bill” V. Campbell.
Bill Campbell is the Board Director of,
Intuit Inc.,
Apple Inc .
He assumed his role as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Intuit, in August 1998. He previously served as Intuits President and Chief Executive Officer from 1994 to 1998 and as Chief Executive Officer from September 1999 until January 2000.
During Campbells tenure, Intuit solidified its position as the clear leader in tax, personal finance and small business accounting software. During that time, the company also invented a new class of Web-based finance businesses delivered through Quicken.com, Intuit’s Web site.
For the three years before joining Intuit, Campbell was the president and chief executive officer of GO Corp., a pen-based computing software company. Previously, he founded and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Claris Corp., which was purchased by Apple Computer Inc. in 1990.
Catalin Voss is a 17-year-old German freshman at Stanford University. He is currently an Innovator in Residence (IIR) at StartX, Stanford’s student startup accelerator, and has been working in mobile software engineering with the startup PayNearMe for the past two years, traveling to Silicon Valley frequently while finishing high school in Germany.
Catalin grew up and graduated from high school near Heidelberg, Germany. He was always interested in technology and built his first robots and websites at the age of nine. When he was twelve, he taught himself the basics of mobile software development when iPhone apps first became popular. A year later, he started a German podcast about iOS development to share his learning experience with others. Catalin’s tutorials quickly achieved > 200,000 views and became the #1 podcast on the German iTunes store. In 2009, he began working with a startup in Stuttgart on iPhone Apps for the U.S.
Head of Finance at PayNearMe