Poko
ActiveSeamless Fiat Payments for Web3
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About
Poko enables seamless transfers from local payment rails to web3 infrastructure enabling web3 wallets, marketplaces, games and DApps to acquire more users. With Poko’s SDK, web3 builders can easily enable fiat-to-crypto onramping with 100+ common local payment methods or easily pay for NFTs with local payment methods. Poko's fiat-to-cryptoonramp aggregator reduces onramping costs by up to 70% and increases transaction success rates by up to 5x through a smart routing logic and a single integration to multiple onramps. It's Direct Checkout solution enables one step purchasing from fiat payment rails from any smart contract for 79% higher user conversion. The co-founders’ experience includes being chief strategy officer of a $2.4B coincap protocol, leading technical implementation of Singapore’s central bank’s experiment in cross-border payments on blockchain rails, policy experience as payments task force member at the World Economic Forum, ex-Ethereum Foundation Fellow, and CTO of a 2M+ user play to earn game.
Founders · 3
Chief Strategy Officer and founding team of $2.4B coin cap (at peak) protocol Zilliqa. Launched a digital identity product and onboarded 20M users in India/Vietnam in 1 year. I am a former Ethereum Foundation Fellow, World Economic Forum Council member for Cross-Border Digital Payments and Digital Currency, and a Kauffman Fellow. At Bain & Co., I worked on private equity, technology and retail. I graduated from Wharton and Yale.
Experienced community builder, obsessed over customer service excellence. Built a community for thousands of youth in mental health to communicate under one platform. Started a podcast on Facebook and Youtube to interview experts on healthcare communications and psychological well-being and brought together healthcare professionals to propose changes to the practice for healthcare professionals in Singapore. Passionate about human connection, customer service and an avid squash player.
AmazonVan Tran has spent the last 3 years leading marketing strategy and growth for Netflix Southeast Asia and Australia to establish Netflix presence and build up fan communities in the region. Previously, she worked on building student communities for the first liberal art college in Singapore Yale-NUS. She also has experience working in management consulting at Bain & Co. and product manager at Amazon.
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