Fahd Ananta

Fahd Ananta

Fahd Ananta in 2013
Born (1988-12-22) December 22, 1988
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Residence Toronto, Canada
Alma mater

University of Waterloo (attended)

University of Toronto (attended)
Known for internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Chime and Tab Payments

Fahd Ananta (born 1988, Dhaka, Bangladesh) is an internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Google Chrome extension Chime[1] as well as mobile payments company Tab Payments.[2]

Early life

He was born on the December 22, 1988 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is the eldest child and has a younger sister.

Career

Fahd attended the University of Waterloo for a Bachelor of Mathematics from which he dropped out to work at BlackBerry. Thereafter, he spent a two-year span working for the Toronto Transit Commission and building genome analysis software for the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. In 2010, he attended the University of Toronto to study Computer Science and Neuroscience. While in school, he began working at McDonald's to observe behaviors of people.

As a student, he joined Microsoft (MSN, Outlook.com) and met friends Thariq Shihipar and Guru Mahendran with whom he co-founded Chime. After Chime was acquired[3] by HubSpot, Ananta went to help McKinsey build a product studio. In August 2013, he moved back to Toronto to join friends in founding Tab.

Chime

Ananta founded Chime in 2011 with friends Thariq Shihipar and Guru Mahendran. Chime is a Google Chrome browser extension. Users are able to view and interact with their notifications and messages from popular websites and applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and many others.[4] Chime launched to the public in January 2012 and garnered a significantly positive response from the online community.[5][6][7][8] It was acquired by marketing automation company HubSpot[9][10][11] in February 2012[12] and combined with what became Sidekick.

Tab

In November 2013, Ananta founded Tab (Tab Payments) in Toronto to help diners pay the bill through their phone in restaurants.[13][14] Tab is a mobile application used to close the bill at restaurants. Diners inform their server that they will be using Tab for their meal and simply leave when they are ready. Their payment information stored on file is billed and they are sent a receipt.[15] Upon launch, Tab was operational in 25 partner restaurants in Toronto.[16][17] In August 2014, Ananta announced to the company that he will step down from his role as Chief Technical Officer and Head of Product.

References

  1. ↑ "Fahd Ananta - Co-founder of Chime". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  2. ↑ "Canadian Startup Tab Launches Elegant Mobile Payments Solution". TechVibes. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  3. ↑ "U of T undergraduate entrepreneurs sell web services startup". University of Toronto. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  4. ↑ "Chime". Chime. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  5. ↑ "Chime for Chrome aggregates all your notifications from Gmail, Twitter, Facebook and more". The Next Web. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  6. ↑ "This Chrome add-on puts your Gmail, social media notifications all in one place". GeekWire. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  7. ↑ "Chime Collects and Organizes Notifications from All Your Popular Web Services Under One Button". Lifehacker. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  8. ↑ "Get Notifications For Gmail, Facebook, Twitter & More In Chrome With Chime". AddictiveTips. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  9. ↑ "HubSpot Acquires Notification Aggregator Chime And Calendar App PrepWork". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  10. ↑ "Why We Acquired Two More Companies ... And We're Just Getting Started". HubSpot. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  11. ↑ "HubSpot acquires Chime and PrepWork, promising more to come". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  12. ↑ "HubSpot picks up startups Chime and PrepWork". VatorTV. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  13. ↑ "Get to know a Toronto startup: Tab". BlogTO. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  14. ↑ "Pay for Summerlicious restaurant meals and more with the tap of a finger: U of T alumni startup, Tab". University of Toronto. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  15. ↑ "Tab for iPhone takes the Hailo approach to dining out, launches in Toronto". MobileSyrup. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  16. ↑ "App aims to make dine and dash acceptable". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  17. ↑ "New app makes dining and dashing...legal". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 2014-10-03.

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