Oct 8, 2017
Ibotta CEO, Bryan Leach - graduated from Harvard, went to Oxford on Marshall Scholarship and then got his law degree from Yale in 2005. Then after a year clerking for US Supreme Court Justice David Souter and joining a Denver law firm, he quit law after he saw someone on an airplane taking pictures of business cards with a phone.
The observation made him realize that people would rather take pictures of shopping receipts to “coupon” after they buy something than the other way around. Ibotta was born and is now the biggest consumer tech company in Denver, and the third most-used shopping app in the U.S.
Ibotta was launched in Denver back in 2012 and now, with more than 400 employees, 23M downloads, nearly $100M in funding, and partnerships with Anheuser-Busch, Target, Wal-Mart and 1500 other brands. The company is focused on getting millennials to start shopping brick and mortar and help stop the wave of retailers closing physical locations.
Ibotta ("I bought a...") is transforming the shopping experience by making it easy for consumers to earn cash rewards on everyday purchases through a single smartphone app. The company partners with leading brands and retailers to offer rewards on groceries, electronics, clothing, gifts, home and office supplies, restaurant dining, and more.
Having worked with eBay, Drizly, Jet.com, Pumaliterally every brand, to better engage consumers with their phone and get them back into physical stores. To date, they’ve given users more than $225M cash back.