Careersaas Job Portal: work at Boku

Boku

Jobs at Boku

About this company:

URL: boku.com

Legal Name: Boku Inc

Primary Location: 735 Battery St, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA

Legal Name: Boku Inc

Industry/Sector: Internet Software & Services

Subindustry: Internet Software & Services

Related Tags: Technology, Information Technology & Services, Internet, Mobile, B2B,
SAAS, Internet Software & Services, Software & Services

Employees: 190

Year Founded: 2009

Boku

Company Description

Boku Inc. LSE: BOKU provides a mobile payments platform headquartered in San Francisco, CA, enabling consumers to pay for goods and services using their mobile phone number, with purchases billed to a consumer's mobile network operator bill.

94 days

average time to fill role

67 / 100

remote work rating

Job roles over time

Name	Title	Description
Daniel Rimer	Director
Mark Britto	Chairman, Founder	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 a
Owen Van Natta	Director	Owen Van Natta is the Executive Vice President of Business at Zynga. In this role, he is responsible for the company's revenue strategy, corporate development, international expansion, and brand. Prior to joining Zynga, Owen was consulting for the Company across a number of critical business functions. Owen is also a member of the Zynga Board of Directors. Most recently, Van Natta served as Chief Executive Officer of MySpace where he was responsible for all aspects of the company's strat
Paul McGuire	Director	Serial Entrepreneur – previously founded two leading international transaction platform businesses. Now at JustInvesting, building the online transaction platform for the next-generation of Angel investing – moving venture investing online, to the benefit of Investors, Entrepreneurs and the whole economy. Prior to JustInvesting Paul co-founded Paymo, later acquired by BOKU, and led the company to become one of the leading mobile payments platforms, available in over 50 countries. Prior t
Jon Prideaux	CEO	Jon is a payments guy with nearly a quarter of century of experience. He was an early Visa Europe employee and key contributor to its growth, leaving in 2006 as EVP Marketing. He started Visa Europe’s ecommerce division, was the lead executive on the introduction of Chip and PIN technology and oversaw product launches such as Visa Electron and V PAY. He served on the Board of EMVCo, was the Chairman of the Compliance Committee and was a member of Visa’s Global Product and Brand Councils. Since l
Ben Lyon	Team Member

Data Point	Information

Funding Type	Funding Raised	Announced On	Funding Series
seed	$ 0	October 01 2008
venture	$ 13 million	June 16 2009	A
venture	$ 25 million	January 19 2010	C
venture	$ 0	May 01 2010
venture	$ 35 million	March 15 2012	D
secondary_market	$ 0	October 15 2014
venture	$ 13.75 million	September 01 2016

Logo	Investor Name	Description
	New Enterprise Associates	New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm
	Andrew Black	Andrew Black formed Betfair in 2000, together with Edward Wray. The company came about after Black had an idea for a fairer way for people to bet against each other rather than with a bookmaker. He turned his idea into a reality, and in doing so created o
	Index Ventures	Index Ventures is a venture capital firm based in London, San Francisco and Geneva, helping entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses. Since 1996, Index has partnered with exceptional entrepreneurs who are using technology to reshape the world around us. The companies they’ve started include Adyen, Deliveroo, Dropbox, Farfetch, King, Slack and Supercell.
	S V Angel	SV Angel is a San Francisco-based seed fund founded by [Ron Conway](/person/ron-conway). SV Angel provides seed investment and advice to early stage companies focused on Internet software. SV Angel takes a portfolio approach to seed investing. We differ from a traditional venture capital firm by not taking board seats and investing a larger number of companies. We leverage a best in class relationship network to be the valley's human router an
	Telefonica	Telefonica, S.A. operates as a diversified telecommunications group that provides fixed line and mobile telephony services.Telefonica wants to enhance people's lives and the performance of businesses as well as the progress of the communities where they operate by delivering innovative services based on information and communications technologies. The company operates in 24 countries and its total number of customers amounted to 315.7 million.Te
	Ali Partovi	Based in San Francisco, Ali is an angel investor, startup advisor, and serial entrepreneur. Ali is also a co-founder of computer education non-profit Code.org and an active investor in sustainable food systems.Ali co-founded and sold two high-profile startups: iLike, acquired by MySpace in 2009, and LinkExchange, acquired by Microsoft for $265 million in 1998. Ali's portfolio as an investor / advisor has included such successes as Zappos, Facebo
	D A G Ventures	The DAG (Duff Ackerman & Goodrich) Ventures partnership began with investments in the cable TV, infrastructure, media, and wireless industries in the 1980's. The firm now invests in a variety of technology companies.
	Hadi Partovi	Hadi Partovi is an entrepreneur and investor, and CEO of the education non-profit Code.org. In 2013 Hadi and his twin brother Ali launched the education nonprofit Code.org which Hadi continues to lead full-time as CEO. Code.org has established computer science classes in 15% of US classrooms, created the most popular curriculum platform for K-12 computer science, and launched the global Hour of Code movement that has reached over 100 million
	Tempo Cap	TempoCap is a leading pan-European technology investor in fast-growing, sizeable businesses. TempoCap offers primary capital for companies to accelerate growth as well as attractive and flexible liquidity solutions for sellers (entrepreneurs, business angels, venture capitalists, corporates). In addition to single company investments, TempoCap advised funds acquire secondary direct investments by purchasing entire portfolios of investments from
	Astia Angels	Astia Angels is a global network of both female and male angel investors that invests in women‐led, high‐growth ventures that apply to Astia, a 501(c)3 organization (www.astia.org). The angel investor network is actively engaged in the Astia community and screening process (Astia Expert Sift TM) and founded by experienced angel investors. All members are highly involved throughout the investment process and make independent investment decisions.