Slope

Excited to have our team member and Head of Capital Markets, Nicholas Heins, accept the Working?Capital?Startup of the Year award at the 2024 Working Capital Awards hosted by The Working Capital Forum. We're honored to be acknowledged as one of the most innovative businesses helping to optimize working capital needs for business customers.?

Nelson Auner, joining as Staff Data Scientist, is a former founder and seasoned leader in the risk and data science space. He joined Affirm in its early days, where he built analytics and risk systems as the company scaled to underwrite millions of U.S. consumers. After Affirm's Series F, Nelson joined the initial team at Coalition, Inc., where he led the data science and risk engineering teams through hypergrowth. Nelson has consulted for various startups, as well as Fortune 100 banks and insurance companies. He holds an MS in Statistics and a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago. We're Auner-ed to work with him!

Grace Robillard is joining us as Customer Success Operations! She was a Senior Analyst in Growth Marketing at American Express and studied Economics at Cornell University. She also played lacrosse throughout youth and was recruited to Hobart and William Smith Colleges. We’re excited about her product and growth marketing experience as activation is a major part of CX – she will help us offer the most?Grace-ful customer experience!

Ethan McCoach?is joining us as Account Executive! He was previously an AE at Link Money, and an AE at LA Clippers. He started his sales career selling door-to-door at Hawx Pest Control. His references highlighted his grit, work ethic, and creativity selling pest control to all types of households. Even in the hottest days of Texas, he was the first to start selling and last to stop.?Ethan?studied at University of California, Berkeley where he helped bring home a PAC 12 championship and was on Australia’s National rowing team. Let’s row the Slope boat! ??

Discover how our lean team of just 7 engineers has been the driving force behind Slope’s growth, from launching enterprise clients like IKEA to originating over hundreds of millions in payments volume through our platform. All while maintaining strict regulatory compliance requirements for a financial services company. In our latest six-part blog series,?"How Slope operates a lean engineering team in the era of increasing productivity,"?Alvin Sng shares how we've optimized everything—from our tech stack to cultural shifts — to achieve high developer productivity without over-hiring. Check it out and learn how we’ve scaled smarter, not harder.?https://lnkd.in/gW8se8EG

We are incredibly excited to officially announce our partnership with Checkout.com to better serve enterprise merchants in the US. ?? By integrating Slope's innovative financing options with Checkout.com's robust acquiring platform, we empower merchants to optimize cash flow and drive growth in the digital economy. A big thank you to Jim Cho, Zack Levine, Meron Colbeci, Katie Wile, Cameron Kurtz, Ginny Huber, Jono Dove, Annie Donovan, and all the amazing teams involved to make this happen. Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/eaKtuKkj

Aidan Finlayson is joining us as SDR! He was previously Revenue Development at Foursquare where he was cited in references as the top SDR in his class and noted as an execution machine. He was in the?NCAA Chapman University Men's Soccer team and?also grew up in Brazil.?Welcome to the team, Aidan - aide us in closing even more deals! ?

Our CEO Lawrence Lin Murata will be speaking at Alibaba.com's CoCreate Conference this week in Las Vegas! Come hear about the challenges in B2B payments and financing we help businesses solve and meet our team in attendance - Alice Deng, Russell Gu, Hannah Scholes! Looking forward to help usher in the next era of digital trade. ?

We are incredibly excited to announce our partnership with IKEA US. to enhance financial solutions and power Invoice to Pay for business customers! We are live on IKEA.com and will be in all stores across the United States on October 1st. Thank you to the IKEA US team: John Shafer, Christine Briganti, Magdalena Gross, John Robinson, Craig Douglas, and INGKA Global team: Emmie Lindstr?m, Kristina Hendess, Peter von Reis, Kristian Dehn Rosengren, Rahul Rathi, Anisha Ronita Raj, Shweta Taneja, Ognjen Vla?ina, and others! Official press release on IKEA newsroom: https://lnkd.in/gvw5mivJ Slope's article on the partnership: https://lnkd.in/gVFDyArT

Maddie Dana recently joined Slope as an Account Executive. Maddie was previously a top-performing AE at Plaid - during her 4+ years she never missed quota! During her time at Plaid she also helped launch Plaid Transfer as a Product Specialist, and showed high “slope” by quickly ramping up her payments knowledge. Prior to Plaid, she was a Mid-Market AE at Navan (Tripactions) and the top SDR/AE at Zendesk, having started her career in recruiting. She shines in creative outbound, and has already in just a few short weeks at Slope seen a lot of success. Maddie’s skill set is broad, and she will focus on both short-term outbound and long-term strategic deals in parallel. ? She played soccer as a student-athlete and won the NCAA Academic All-Conference. As a center midfielder and team captain, she is a true team player who will help the Slope team score more goals and win together!?