Fivestars

Customer loyalty and payments platform for small businesses.

Y CombinatorWinter 2011AcquiredB2BRetailFintechMarketplace

What they do

Problem

Small local businesses struggle to retain customers and drive repeat sales while managing payments and customer engagement.

Solution

Fivestars provides an integrated payments and customer loyalty platform that turns transactions into ongoing customer relationships and targeted marketing.

Who it's for

Small local businesses use the platform to process payments and run loyalty programs to increase repeat visits and sales.

Founders

Victor Ho

Founder/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.