| Website | zipmark.com |
| @zipmark | |
| Category | Mobile/Wireless |
| Employees | 5 |
| Founded | 3/10 |
| Description | Secure, mobile eCheck payments |
| TOTAL | $2M |
| VENTURE FUNDING TOTAL | $2M |
| Seed, 12/11 Village Ventures Contour Venture Partners High Peaks Venture Partners New York City Investment Fund | $2M |
Zipmark is a mobile payment platform that brings check processing infrastructure directly to billers and consumers accepting secure payments from any bank, thrift or credit union checking account without onerous fees or long delays. Zipmark’s Biller API can be easily integrated into traditional web payments, offering a lower cost alternative to credit and debit cards; also by leveraging Zipmark QR codes users can make pay for items such as rent, fees or subscriptions directly from paper invoices via the Zipmark smartphone app.
Zipmark was founded by Jake Howerton and Jay Bhattacharya.
Jay was the co-founder of Mobile Money Ventures (acquired by Intuit) and was with Citigroup for 7 years where he was responsible for emerging payments strategy including mobile, NFC and smartcards.
Jake is a technology focused entrepreneur and the former CTO of Sunshine Suites, Inc. Magazine’s 15th Fastest Growing Real Estate Company in 2009. Jake is also active in creating the OpenTransact standard, an open and simple financial standard for authorizing transactions without revealing account credentials.
