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Leaf is a platform technology by Leaf Holdings, Inc. that serves as a central hub for small business commerce. The Leaf platform consists of a tablet computer built specifically for Point of Sale (POS), and a cloud-based software tool for business management, analytics, and customer engagement. Leaf is designed to help retail stores, restaurants, and other small businesses improve the speed and ease of checkout, and to help business owners obtain better insight into, and control over their operations.[1]

The company has no active website and is apparently defunct.[when?]

History

Leaf was founded in January 2011 by Aron Schwarzkopf and Sebastian Castro[2] and is financially backed by angel investors. Schwarzkopf graduated from Babson College with a degree in entrepreneurship in 2010 and a vague idea of how he wanted to revolutionize the way local companies do business in a world increasingly shifting to the cloud.[3] Since then, he has led Leaf from an idea on a napkin through the introduction of its built-for-business tablet in late 2012, to a platform that processes more than $30 million a year in payments. Leaf started in the Boston metro market and recently revealed plans to move into more than 12 US markets in 2013.[4]

Technology

The Leaf platform is made up of three distinct pieces that work together to serve as the hub for small business commerce: The LeafPresenter, LeafBusiness, and the Leaf App Store.

References

  1. ^ Fiorletta, Alicia (May 9, 2013). "Aceituna Café Speeds Ordering And Checkout With mPOS". Retail Touchpoints. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  2. ^ Castro, Sebastian (April 14, 2013). "K-Square: Still the Place to Be for Start-up". Boston Globe. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  3. ^ Oster Parnell, Deborah (May 16, 2013). "Aron Schwarzkopf Brings Cloud Technology to Small Businesses with Leaf". Under 30 CEO. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  4. ^ Alspach, Kyle (April 1, 2013). "Leaf aims to bring biz payments tablet to 12 new markets this year". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  5. ^ Molen, Brad (May 14, 2013). "Leaf unveils next-gen LeafPresenter Android POS tablet for taking payments". Engadget. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  6. ^ Carsley, Ben (March 20, 2013). "Leaf Opens Platform, Takes Agnostic Approach To Payments Acceptance". PYMNTS.com. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  7. ^ "Leaf Announces Open Approach to Payment Acceptance". 20 March 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  8. ^ Adams, John (March 22, 2013). "Leaf Opens an App Store for Its Payments Tablet". PaymentsSource. Archived from the original on 19 June 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  9. ^ Lardinois, Frederic (March 21, 2013). "Leaf, The Point-Of-Sale Android Tablet For Brick-And-Mortar Businesses, Launches Its App Store". TechCrunch. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  10. ^ "Leaf Unveils World's First App Store Specifically for Small Business". 21 March 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
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