Lawrence Murata
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Co-Founder & CEO
San Francisco, California, United States
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Angel InvestorAngel InvestorJan 2021 - Current (5 years 5 months)Interested in technologies and tools that reshape how foundational systems and institutions work. Directly or indirectly (via SPVs) invested in: OpenAI, Boom Supersonic, Clay, Replit, Stark Bank, Terradot, Wispr Flow, Slash, Plaid, Mercury, and others.- Co-Founder & CEOSlopeDec 2020 - Current (5 years 6 months)Embedded B2B credit platform. Raised $78M in equity funding to date from Sam Altman, J.P. Morgan, Y Combinator, Union Square Ventures, Monashees, Tiger Global Management, Global Founders Capital, and founders of OpenAI, Doordash, Dropbox, Plaid, Unity, Opendoor, Rappi, Deel, Lattice, Front, Mercury, and Zip.
- Head of AI Platforms & Data ScienceNautoFeb 2019 - Mar 2021 (2 years 2 months)Self-driving vehicle company backed by Greylock, Softbank, GM, BMW, Toyota, and others. • ELT (Extended Leadership Team) member -- small team of execs and leaders making strategic company decisions. • Led 20 people across Data Science, Risk Assessment, Data Analytics, Collision Detection, Navigation Engine, and AI Tooling. Oversaw mission-critical projects, such as our driver score, aggressive maneuver detection, driver coaching, collision detection, loss reduction, multi-fusion navigation engine, etc. • Spearheaded and led several key projects, many of them in production: risk assessment for auto insurance, end-to-end autonomous driving, data exploration tool, revamping our data labeling tool, a sound-based detection model, a predictive co
- NFounder/CEONewton Technologies acquiredJan 2017 - Dec 2019 (3 years)www.newtondrive.co/ • Led/managed the development/release of several internal tools and products, including technologies in V2V communication, collision risk modeling with real-time context and driver behavior, safe routing, B2B/B2C driver apps, collision safety tech, logistics tech, OBD II • Developed partnerships and relationships with major fleets, ride-sharing and insurance companies • Partnered with HELLA (one of the largest German automotive component manufacturers) to build V2V solutions and develop the driver HMI for autonomous vehicles
- Software Engineering Intern (Summer)MicrosoftJul 2016 - Sep 2016 (3 months)Built a security library from scratch together with integrations that power Microsoft Office's Safe Links (documentation below).
- Student Instructor (Computer Science)Stanford UniversitySep 2015 - Jun 2017 (1 year 10 months)• Taught CS 50 (Fall 2017), CS 90SI, CS 106 B/X Social Good. Advised CS 106S, CS 50 (Spring 2017), CS 51, CS 52, CS 53 SI. • Together with team, created 6 new official Computer Science courses at the university and worked on the design of their curriculums. • Taught how to use Computer Science for social change, and help teams effectively build/release new products from scratch. Taught total of 170 Stanford students, including PhD, MS, BS and MBA students.
- Software Engineering Intern (Summer)AppleJun 2015 - Sep 2015 (4 months)AI/NLP and design/product for Siri. Built, modeled, prototyped, designed and came up with features that make Siri smarter, including NLP deep learning models, a data collection application and a competition project that was productized.
- 1st President and Co-founderCSSocial GoodDec 2014 - Jun 2017 (2 years 7 months)CS+Social Good is Stanford's first student group focusing on the intersection of computer science and social impact. • Led/structured Stanford’s 1st official organization that focuses on the intersection of Computer Science and social change • Managed 70 members in the core organizing team, divided into 9 sub-teams (Business Development, Design & Marketing, etc.), 3 groups (core team, advisors, alumni) and 2 states. • Organization grew over 10x in 2 years of leadership, becoming one of the most prominent organizations at Stanford with general community of 1500+ students and 11+ press coverages (including features on front page of Stanford’s official website, School of Engineering’s website, and cover of The Stanford Daily) • Expanded to 14
- Software Engineering Intern (Summer)The Washington PostJun 2014 - Sep 2014 (4 months)• Built an advanced search feature for Trove, a new product created by The Washington Post Labs. • Won 1st place in the company's hackathon.
- Software Engineer (Summer Intern)The Washington PostJun 2014 - Sep 2014 (4 months)• Built an advanced search feature for Trove, a new product created by The Washington Post Labs. • Won 1st place in the company's hackathon.
Education
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- Bachelor of Science (B.S, Computer Science (AI)Stanford UniversityAdvisor: Andrew Ng
- S21Y Combinator
- Peking UniversityPeking UniversityStudy Abroad program through Stanford University
Projects (professional or personal)
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- EExoplanets ("Finding Home" Project)Jun 2015Our project aims at finding exoplanets that are habitable to human beings using machine learning and astrophysics. An exoplanet is is a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun, a stellar remnant, or a brown dwarf. We used data sets from NASA to study how properties that would, in theory, be relevant to the habitability of an exoplanet by humans can help us predict whether certain exoplanets we know of would be habitable or not.
- PPersonal Conversational ModelJan 2015 - Aug 2015 (8 months)NLP paper for a language model that takes the human utterance as an input and generates the machine language response word-by-word from scratch
- SSmartBoxOct 2014 - Jul 2015 (10 months)It recognizes what the you need and connects you to the right service. It can process language, recognize voice and measure your brain activity to understand what you need. Our hardware BrainBox measures your body’s resistance, which varies with brain activity. Hungry? Ask SmartBox to bring you food. Stressed? When BrainBox measures high levels of stress, SmartBox plays calm songs. It will give you everything you need in just one box. (arduino, javascript, node.js, several APIs and other technologies)
- NNano-Engineered Chips for Wearable ComputersApr 2014 - Jun 2014 (3 months)Developed flexible chips using polyamide substrates (for flexible boards) with metal circuits (E-Beam Evaporation) in the Stanford Nanotechnology Laboratory, experimenting and researching different designs, methods and materials to study and develop flexible chips for wearable computers. Besides managing to optimize results for the chips, this independent project also resulted in simple low-cost prototypes for wearables.
- LLarry BotJan 2014 - Jul 2015 (1 year 7 months)Smart personal assistant connects/automates homes (integrated with IoT) and simplifies daily tasks
Awards
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- Forbes 30 Under 30ForbesJan 2022Forbes 30 Under 30 - Enterprise Technology (North America)
- MIT 35 Innovators Under 35MIT Technology ReviewNov 2018The purpose of the award is to honor "accomplishments that are poised to have a dramatic impact on the world as we know it."
- 2017 Stanford Award of ExcellenceStanford UniversityJan 2017Award presented to top 10% students who “had a truly meaningful impact on the Stanford community.”
- Stanford's 2017 Campus Impact AwardStanford UniversityJan 2017For Inspiring Innovation for “breakthrough initiatives that have inspired innovation” (CS+Social Good).
- 1st Place Stanford/StartX Prize in Energy InnovationStanford UniversityJan 2016For a proposal on how to make self-driving car technologies affordable.
- 2nd Place and “Smart Things Prize” at HomeHacksStanford UniversityJan 2016
- 2nd Place and Smart Things Prize at HomeHacksStanford UniversityJan 2016
- 2015 Apple iContestApple IncJan 2015Finalist
- eBest Commerce Hack at Cal HackseBayPayPalOct 2014
- TTizinha ScholarshipJan 2013
- BBrazilian Physics OlympiadJan 2012
- SSao Paulo Chemistry OlympiadJan 2011
- BBrazilian Olympiad in InformaticsJan 2010