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Balanced - Payments processing, escrow, and payouts in one simple API | About	about.html	community	heading text founded march 2010 heading text located san francisco, ca heading text team 17 payment aficionados and growing heading text purpose enable new forms of commerce	We're obsessed with all forms of infrastructure, including communications, transportation, energy, waste management, and payments. Robust infrastructure creates a happier, more productive, and more prosperous society. You know exactly what I mean if you've traveled somewhere where you struggled to find a reliable Internet connect or even usable roads. You also know what I mean when you sit in traffic or struggle with public transportation (or lack thereof) in the US. <br><br> Balanced was created to increase the global economy (increase GDP) by enabling new commerce. Our mechanism or facility to do that is payments. Everything else we do depends on how it fits into the vision for Balanced.	heading subHeading list founders pictured above from left to right name title desc links mahmoud abdelkader co-founder and cto Mahmoud joined Matin at Balanced in January 2011 during the Y Combinator Winter 2011 session -- just after his previous employer, Milo.com, was acquired by eBay. Mahmoud was employee #4 at Milo.com where he designed automated product matching systems. He built high-frequency trading algorithms for Wachovia Securities before that. Mahmoud grew up in NY and Maryland after moving from Egypt.<br><br>Mahmoud graduated Magna Cum-Laude with a BS in Computer Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park, but actually learned to code by reverse engineering World of Warcraft. link site http://twitter.com/mahmoudimus twitter link site https://github.com/mahmoudimus github name title desc links matin tamizi co-founder and ceo Matin founded Balanced -- previously called PoundPay -- in March 2010 as a real-time alternative payments system, but started focusing specifically on marketplaces after hearing payments horror stories from several marketplace founders. Matin was employee #2 at Milo.com where he built automated product categorization tools before founding Balanced. He managed an $11MM service line in Europe for JDSU before that. Originally from Iran, Matin grew up in Maryland, where he first became obsessed about payments.<br><br>Matin finished college in three years with a BS in Computer Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park where he built DDoS prevention algorithms. link site http://twitter.com/matin twitter link site https://github.com/matin github name title desc links jareau wade co-founder Jareau joined Matin and Mahmoud in May 2011. Before that, he was the 1st employee and head of data acquisition at Milo.com where he Managed 60% of Milo's employees and designed many of their data acquisition systems. Prior to Milo, Jareau was a founding faculty member of a a technology-entrepreneurship training institute in Ghana.<br><br>Jareau holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering from University of Pennsylvania where he built emergency personnel tracking systems using GPS. link site http://twitter.com/jkwade twitter link site http://www.linkedin.com/in/jkwade linkedin	heading list team name job desc link site timothy nguyen legal and compliance Stanford / UVA law / California bar association http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tim-nguyen/15/984/683 linkedin name job desc link site marshall jones engineer built payments back-end for largest commerce site in New Zealand https://github.com/mjallday github name job desc link site marc sherry engineer coding since age 5. https://github.com/msherry github name job desc link site damon chin designer designed this website https://github.com/dmdj03 github name job desc link site manisha ramchandani marketplace consultant how can I help you be successful? http://www.linkedin.com/pub/manisha-ramchandani/21/128/288 linkedin name job desc link site patrick cieplak engineer understanding all the data https://github.com/cieplak github name job desc link site andrew nossiter operations writer that fell in love with payments http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-nossiter/23/559/11b linkedin name job desc link site ben mills engineer contributed to open source Balanced projects for a year prior to working at Balanced https://github.com/remear github name job desc link site victor lin engineer recurring billing connoisseur https://github.com/victorlin github name job desc link site kyungmin kim engineer designer turned into engineer https://github.com/kyungmin github name job desc link site david macquart account management and partnerships whatever it takes http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-macquart/0/101/959 linkedin name job desc link site carlos rodriguez engineer señor js developer https://github.com/cohitre github name job desc link site richie serna engineer former biz dev who went full dev https://github.com/rserna2010 github	heading list backers name desc andreessen horowitz backed Github, Airbnb, Lyft, Pinterest name desc y combinator backed Dropbox, Airbnb, Heroku name desc sv angel backed PayPal, Google, Square, Airbnb name desc yishan wong reddit ceo, Facebook director of engineering name desc brian chesky Airbnb co-founder and ceo name desc ashton kutcher backed Skype, Square, Flipboard, Zaarly name desc paul buchheit FriendFeed founder and Gmail creator name desc ronnie cheng built chargeback processing for Facebook name desc justin mitchell built infrastructure for Facebook photos name desc yun-fang juan wrote ad serving algorithm for Facebook