Bitpay

Basics

• A Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Cash payment service provider headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
• Attender of Satoshi Roundtable
• Started in may 2011
• Has a BitLicence since 2018.
• On 14-8-2019 introduced KYC for any refund/payment above 1000$

Team, partnerships, etc.

• Gallippi, Tony; co-founder (used to be chairman but not on the website anymore as of 6-2019
• Pair, Stephen; co-founder, CEO and on Board of Directors
• Sonny Singh; CCO
• Glen Braganza; CFO & ICCO
• Cole Riccardi; on Board of Directors, Aquiline Technology Growth
• Carl Stern; on Board of Directors, Former Boston Consulting Group and Goldman Sachs
• Arthur Levitt; advisor, Former Chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission
• Jim Aviles; advisor, Co-Founder, Merchant e-Solutions
• Had Ryan X. Charles lead their development of bitcore, BitPay's javascript implementation of bitcoin.
• Jeff Garzik used to be an engineer (left before 2015)
• Matias Garcia
• Esteban Ordanao; used to work as a Software Engineer

Partners

• Parters with Bloq, ShapeShift, Rootstok
• "AT&T has tapped crypto payment service BitPay to facilitate bill payments in crypto, according to CoinDesk; although other purchases cannot be paid in crypto, AT&T VP Kevin McDorman applauded the effort saying, "We have customers who use cryptocurrency, and we are happy we can offer them a way to pay their bills with the method they prefer”"
• Is one of the projects that is contributing to Microsoft's ION (25-3-2021).

• From Paradigm (14-9-2021):

"1inch partners with BitPay: Thanks to the partnership, BitPay users will get access to the 1inch dApp’s DEX aggregation functionality for the best deals across multiple liquidity sources."

Investors

• Ver, Roger; first investor
• Silbert, Barry; investor through Digital Currency Group
• Is a sponsor of Coin Center
• Index Ventures, FoundersFund, Felicis Ventures
• Got investment from Mastercard (10-9-2021).

Memberships

• Coin Center, Endeavor Atlanta, Technology Association of Georgia