Fivestars
Winter 2011 · Acquired
Customer loyalty and payments platform for small businesses.
Location: San Francisco, US
Founded: 2010
Team size: 201
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About
Fivestars is a leading payment and customer loyalty platform for small local businesses. Our mission is to help businesses and communities thrive by turning every transaction into a relationship.
Since launching in 2011, Fivestars has become a rewarding platform with 60 million users discovering and driving sales to 14,000+ small businesses. We help drive over $3 billion in local sales per year. More than 1 million people sign up monthly to support the local businesses that make our neighborhoods great.
The company is backed by Lightspeed, DCM, Menlo Ventures, HarbourVest, and others.
Together, let’s #LoveLocal. Visit www.fivestars.com for more information.
Founders
Victor HoFounder/CEO
Victor co-founded Fivestars following his work at McKinsey & Company, where he helped build out loyalty and customer engagement strategies for premiere Fortune 50 brands. He started his career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and holds three degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, where he triple majored in Industrial Engineering, Rhetoric, and Business Administration. Victor has an insatiable love for sour candy, and can’t resist those tasty green apple things.
Matt DokaFounder/CTO