Name Fahd Ananta Role Entrepreneur | Residence Toronto, Canada | |
Born December 22, 1988 (age 35) ( 1988-12-22 ) Dhaka, Bangladesh Alma mater University of Waterloo (attended)
University of Toronto (attended) Known for internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Chime and Tab Payments | ||
Native Mobile Apps (Shopify Unite 2017 )
Fahd Ananta (born 1988, Dhaka, Bangladesh) is an internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Google Chrome extension Chime as well as mobile payments company Tab Payments.
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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 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. Chime launched to the public in January 2012 and garnered a significantly positive response from the online community. It was acquired by marketing automation company HubSpot in February 2012 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. 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. Upon launch, Tab was operational in 25 partner restaurants in Toronto. In August 2014, Ananta announced to the company that he will step down from his role as Chief Technical Officer and Head of Product.