Lawrence Lin Murata
Summary
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SeniorLawrence Murata is a seasoned technology founder and CEO based in San Francisco, with a decade of experience building products that aim to improve people’s lives. As Co-Founder and CEO of Slope (YC S21) since 2020, he leads embedded business lending and has helped raise about $252M in equity and debt from investors including Sam Altman, Y Combinator, and Tiger Global. Earlier at Nauto, he led AI Platforms & Data Science as an ELT member, directing a 20-person team across data science, risk, navigation, and AI tooling to production ML for autonomous driving and collision detection. He also founded Newton Technologies, advancing V2V communication, collision risk modeling, safe routing, and driver HMI partnerships with fleets and HELLA. Lawrence’s early career features influential roles at Stanford CS, where he co-founded CS+Social Good and served as the 1st President, scaling the organization and helping design new CS courses; he also completed internships at Microsoft, Apple, and The Washington Post. His unique combination of hands-on engineering, strategic leadership, and a social-impact orientation drives him to turn complex AI-enabled ideas into practical, scalable products.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (43)
geopackage8
sailfishos8
vector-tiles8
geojson8
tiles8
null-safety8
mapbox-gl8
amazon-polly7
openstreetmap7
nodejs7
java7
carplay7
android7
in-scope7
child-process7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lawrencelm/MyRocketStartup
Nov 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:50 commits, 4 pushes in 4 months
lawrencelm/Lawrence-Website
Jan 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:35 pushes, 9 comments, 22 issues in 2 years 7 months
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