Lawrence Lin Murata

@LawLM

Co-founder & CEO @SlopePay⚡️ (YC S21) | prev: Head of AI Platforms & DS @NautoInc, founder/CEO at Newton (acq), @Stanford 🇧🇷

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Lawrence Lin Murata
@LawLM
Sep 27, 2023
At @slopepay, we’re excited to announce our $30M round led by @usv with major participation from @sama - bringing our total equity/debt funding to $187M. Since launching in Aug ‘21, we are over 8 figures in ARR and are a lean team of 18. In the midst of this excitement, I wanted
Lawrence Lin Murata
@LawLM
Jun 23
The future of funding is decentralized. 2nd forward flow sale in a few weeks, 3x'd the facility size.
Slope
@slopepay
Jun 23
Coming off of our recent announcement, we’re excited to share that @3janexyz has upsized its Slope facility with an additional ~$18m purchase. Let's go! 🎉
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Lawrence Lin Murata
@LawLM
Jun 18
The future of credit applications won’t be a faster application, it will be no application
Lawrence Lin Murata
@LawLM
Jun 9
Excited that Slope completed a loan sale to @3janexyz. This is one of the first transactions of its kind -- it tokenizes SMB loans via USD3/sUSD3 stablecoins, increasing efficiency, transparency, programmability. This changes how business loans are funded and helps us scale
Slope
@slopepay
Jun 9
We are excited to announce that we have completed our 1st forward-flow loan sale of $8.5M with @3janexyz, a cryptonative credit protocol. This is the 1st phase of a broader $50M program and one of the 1st whole-loan purchases of a U.S. fintech loan book by a DeFi protocol.
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Lawrence Lin Murata
@LawLM
May 21
I worry a lot about the collateral damage of vibe coding and agents in security and data privacy. The surface area of attack is growing very quickly, while control and auditability are generally decreasing - this is a very bad combo.