Give Me Tap

GiveMeTap produces and sells co-branded and reusable stainless steel water bottles.

For every bottle sold, they provide one person in Africa access to clean drinking water through the funding of sustainable water, sanitation, and irrigation projects.

Each bottle helps drinkers avoid spending money on bottled water by granting them exclusive access to a network of restaurants and retailers, which are located by using the GiveMeTap mobile app (iOS & Android).

Retailers benefit from a new customer base and direct marketing access to users via the app. The app also tracks individual water usage.

Corporate customers, which include Deloitte, KPMG and Visa, buy its water bottles as a way to save money and give employee gifts that showcase their company values.

GiveMeTap is already profitable and boasts margins of 75%.

It has sold over 42,000 water bottles ($400,000 in revenue). Since January 2015, it has experienced 123% month-over-month growth, with $50,000 in revenue for March.

It plans to use the proceeds of this financing round to build a sales team.

GiveMeTap is a graduate of Y Combinator’s Winter 2015 class.

Team Background

Sanum Jain - Head of Communications & Partnerships

Sanum joined GiveMeTap as the first employee after graduating from university in 2013. She manages Public Relations, Partnership Communications, Community Management, and Digital Marketing & Online Sales.

She is also the Co-Editor at Nada Brahma, a UK based online magazine and music portal focused on the underground and independent music scene.

Sanum graduated from The University of Manchester with a BA in Economics & Development Studies.

Edwin Broni-Mensah - Founder & CEO

Prior to founding GiveMeTap, Edwin was the Founder of FreeMyIdea, an online platform that matched investors with entrepreneurs seeking capital.

While completing his PhD, Edwin interned with Goldman Sachs as a Listed Derivatives Technologist. Edwin is a TEDx Speaker, has been awarded numerous honors and was named one of the “Next Men of the Next 25 Years” by GQ Magazine and the “Most Oustanding Black Graduate in The UK” by Powerful Media.

Edwin graduated from The University of Manchester with a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics and a PhD in Financial Mathematics.

Co-Investors

Y Combinator

Seed-stage accelerator whose alumni include Scribd, Reddit, Airbnb, Dropbox and Stripe

Andrew Ogawa

Managing Partner at Quest Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital firm

John Tan

Partner at 8Capita, an early stage venture capital firm

Zillionize Seed Fund

Micro venture capital that does Seed Investments. Previous investments in Cruise, Mailgun, Leadgenius, Meta.

Trapp Lewis

Founder and Managing Director of Palmetto Ventures, Director at Yahoo, Senior Director at Alibaba

Neuw Ventures

Finances businesses engaged in facilitating a global transition to a sustainable economic model