Slope

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 Lindström, Kristina Hendess, Peter von Reis, Kristian Dehn Rosengren, Rahul Rathi, Anisha Ronita Raj, Shweta Taneja, Ognjen Vlačina, 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!⚡

There is a lot of momentum recently at Slope, and the rest of the year will be at least as fun! To keep up with the excitement we recently expanded our sales & customer success teams. We are not stopping there, and are now looking to add rockstar talent across Recruiting, Data Science, Customer Support, Engineering (both forward deployed and full-stack) and Risk Operations.  Coordination and communication are key to our success. This was extra evident during our recent company outing where we all went rafting in the Russian River - a great showcase for how collaborative efforts lead to smoother (and in this case, drier) outcomes. Slope is making waves (see what we did there? 🙂) - come join us! Apply here: https://lnkd.in/dx5wS3_i Data Science: https://lnkd.in/gFtuhBJV Founding Recruiter: https://lnkd.in/gVNYw_Ad

We're excited for our deep partnership and investment from J.P. Morgan, one of the most important financial institutions on the planet with 150 years of legacy. The combination of J.P. Morgan’s extensive client relationships and fortress balance sheet with Slope’s AI-driven B2B payment platform will create outsized impact in the B2B economy. Read more details about our partnership here: https://lnkd.in/gP6ycpzp

Today, we’re announcing a $65M strategic round in equity and debt from J.P. Morgan, Notable Capital and others, bringing our total funding to $252M! We believe our long-term thinking and emphasis on both “fin” and “tech” has been imperative to execute precisely above the chaos, close major partnerships, and onboard new customers. While we are very “tech” – pushing boundaries in AI and shipping velocity, headquartered in San Francisco, and backed by the best technologists in Silicon Valley (Sam Altman, Y Combinator, founders of OpenAI, DoorDash, Plaid, Dropbox, Unity, etc.) – partnering deeply with the largest bank in the world, J.P. Morgan, to gain expertise in compliance, risk, and distribution is a necessity to transition the $125T B2B economy online. By combining J.P. Morgan’s fortress balance sheet and depth of client relationships with Slope’s strengths in technology, underwriting and credit risk monitoring – we are a well-positioned partner to serve the world’s largest enterprises. We are hitting an exciting inflection point and hiring across all roles! If you or someone you know are interested in joining us, check out our roles here: https://lnkd.in/dx5wS3_i Announcement on X: https://lnkd.in/deJu3gra Note from our CEO: https://lnkd.in/dYCe59ur TechCrunch coverage: https://lnkd.in/gjduHbwQ Press release: https://lnkd.in/dmtWxR76

⚡ Hiring alert ⚡ We are firing on all cylinders at Slope! To support all our customer demand we need to hire brilliant people, and to hire brilliant people, we need a brilliant recruiter in SF. We always say that our results come down to slope: it's not where you start, it's how fast you grow and iterate. Come do your life's work at Slope if this value speaks to you, and if you are excited to grind to hunt for world-class talent, you are smart and operationally organized to coordinate across inbound channels, can uphold a high bar for talent when screening, and able to recruit for both technical (eng, data science) and nontechnical roles (CS, GTM). Apply for our Founding Recruiter role here: https://lnkd.in/gVNYw_Ad

⚡ Come join us ⚡ We can’t seem to stop closing large enterprise customers at Slope. While closing deals is fun and good for business, it’s just step 1 🙂 We aim to provide our new and existing customers with a best-in-class end-to-end user experience, and we want your help in doing so! We’re currently building out our Risk Operations and Customer Success organizations - if you want your career to be a “trail-blazing” adventure, much like the 9 mile hike the team recently went on together, please apply below! Customer Success Ops: https://lnkd.in/gGfDEEPk Risk Ops: https://lnkd.in/gaDY3wfJ Data Science: https://lnkd.in/gHNBQy5u All roles (hiring in sales, marketing, and engineering): https://lnkd.in/d-f-9K84

Slope has signed a number of big public logos without a sales team, more to share publicly soon once we’re allowed to. We are at an inflection point, ready to grow our GTM function aggressively. ⚡ DM me or email us at [email protected] if you are a top AE/BDR wanting join as one of Slope’s early GTM hires, or if you've worked with a top AE/BDR! We are looking for AE/BDRs who are high Slope and will grind, constantly iterate, own the sales process end-to-end from finding leads to closing, and deal with ambiguity. Ideally with fintech experience and experience dealing with midmarket and SMBs. You will work closely with Alice, Ashish, Hannah, Renzo, and me to spearhead the GTM team.

Renzo Costarella has joined Slope as founding GTM. Renzo was previously a Senior Account Executive for Upper Mid-market at Brex. Brex’s ex-CRO and ex-COO both highly recommended Renzo and his references highlighted him as one of Brex’s top AEs. Renzo is a fast-paced hustler who isn’t afraid to try new things and iterate. He shines in the early stage environment where there's unbounded room for creativity and strategy. In less than a week at Slope, Renzo is already taking point on moving full-steam ahead of some new deals. Renzo is a foodie and into cooking — let him cook at Slope!! 👨🍳🔥