Slope is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2021 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: The B2B Payments Platform. The founders listed are Lawrence Lin Murata (Founder), Alice Deng (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, June 29, 2021).
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Credit Infrastructure for Business Lending | Slope
Credit infrastructure for business lending, whether you have your own program or are looking to add one. We simplify credit applications and offer businesses instant financing through a line of credit solution.
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Lawrence Lin Murata
Founder
Lawrence Lin Murata, co-founder and CEO. Lawrence's family spent 3 decades in wholesale, which inspired us to build Slope. Previously, Lawrence founded Newton Technologies (acq by Nauto), which used AI to analyze smartphone data and help people drive better. Later, he led AI Platforms & Data Science at Nauto, a 200-people autonomous driving company. Lawrence is a Stanford grad, where he led and co-founded CS+Social Good, a tech for impact organization.
Alice Deng
Founder
Co-founder & CPO of Slope. Previously, Alice co-founded Glisten AI (YC W20), providing e-commerce product categorization using CV and NLP. Prior to Glisten, she was a product manager at Dropbox. Alice is a UC Berkeley grad, where she led Blueprint, a tech for impact organization and was named under the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2023.
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