ChipIn’s mission is to make it easy to collect money. We enable users to organize group payments and fundraisers (”ChipIns”) in a quick, easy, and secure way. We also make it simple for organizers to publicize their ChipIns, by providing powerful fundraising widgets that can be embedded in social media.

* ChipIn allows anyone to collect money for a personal cause, group purchase, or fundraiser using their own custom ChipIn page.
* ChipIn enables bloggers to create an interactive widget that allows them to raise money directly through blogs and other social media.
* ChipIn empowers non-profit organizations to engage a distributed network of supporters in “blograising” campaigns for major fundraising efforts.

Carnet Williams (CEO):
Carnet captains our ship and makes sure we have what we need to keep moving fast (and in the right direction!). He helps us share our story and the social ecommercesm mantra.
Entrepreneur, Executive Director of HiBEAM; Associate Dean, Stanford Law School; Director of Academic Technology, Stanford University; Director of Business Development, TurboLinux; Founder and Executive Director of NetCorps, and co-founder of Boardtactics.com.

Kevin Hughes (CTO):
Kevin is the master architect that plans our tools and features so that ChipIn organizers and participants can have fun in an easy and secure way. He also makes sure our user interface looks great. (more)
Started Hawaii’s first Web server in 1993, one of six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame. Developed UI for the first online shopping site (the Internet Shopping Network, acquired in 1994), EIT’s Webmaster (acquired in 1996 by VeriFone), Senior Engineer at Veo Systems (acquired in 1999), and Creative Director at Commerce One (IPO in 1999).

Todd Kurie (VP Marketing):
Todd adds a bit of viral, a splash of marketing, a smidgen of risk management into a analytical cocktail for us to chase with our kool aid. If you are here, it is probably because Todd infiltrated your life somehow. (more)
VP Partnerships and VP Marketing at Xoom; Director of eBay’s Anything Points and Gift Certificates programs; Director of Marketing Analysis and International Membership Rewards at American Express; COO of ActivityNet.

Dustin Kanske (Developer/Sysadmin):
Dustin keeps our admin tools up and running and writes a large portion of our code. He’s responsible for implementing new ChipIn features and for making sure the ChipIn servers operate smoothly. (more)
Data center/systems manager and virtual server support for Spry Hosting; Systems Administrator for several Washington-based ISPs.

Austin (QC Engineer):
Austin is pretty much our in-house rascal. He spends his time at the office doing everything he can to find bugs in our code and break what our engineers build, ensuring that everything runs smoothly and works as intended. (more)
Previously, Austin was a QA Engineer and PHP Developer at Transmeta Corp.

Lani Maher (Intern):
Lani happily does whatever tasks are thrown her way. Her responsibilities include everything from keeping the company on the same page and proofreading the ChipIn Web site, to refilling the office water cooler and notifying the guys of tomorrow’s surf report. (more)
Lani is currently a senior at Punahou High School in Honolulu, Hawai’i.