From TechCrunch

We in the press haven’t heard too much from Fivestars, the customer loyalty startup, since it launched out of the Winter 2011 class of Y Combinator last year. But now that seems the silence has been for a pretty good cause: Turns out that Fivestars has been busy over the past year building a business with real clients, real users, and most importantly, real revenue. Fivestars, which makes an all-purpose customer loyalty card and web platform that people can use at multiple different retail locations, has now processed more than 1.3 million check-ins, the company’s co-founder Victor Ho tells me. These check-ins have occured across 250,000 users in the 700 or so retail locations in which Fivestars is active — 100,000 of these users use the Fivestars card once every two to three weeks, with 50,000 of those using it every week.

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