3x founder

Lotanna Ezeike

Helping companies pay people for performance

Co-founder

Grade· Winter 2026 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @lottsnomad

2025Co-founder· Grade (YC W26)

Founder · since 2019

Company

Grade (YC W26)

Role

Co-Founder, CEO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

Profile coverage5 of 7 · missing posts, contact

Grade

API for performance-based payroll

Winter 2026

Experience

Career

Grade (YC W26)
Co-founder
Co-Founder, CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
Founders, Inc.
Principal Product Officer (Consumer AI) · San Francisco, California, United States · 2024 – 2025
2024
Morressier
Senior Product Manager · London, England, United Kingdom · 2023 – 2024
2023
Accruent
Product Manager · London, England, United Kingdom · 2022 – 2023
2022
TripVisa
Founder
Founder · London, England, United Kingdom · 2022 – 2023
2022
XPO
Founder
Founder & Chief Product Officer · London, United Kingdom · 2019 – 2022
2019
Barclays
Product Manager/Digital Lead · 2016 – 2019
2016
SwiftKey
Associate Product Manager · London, United Kingdom · 2012
2012

Bio

2x VC-backed founder. Previously product lead at Barclays, one of the world's largest banks, where I led product for digital payments. At my last company, I managed $10M+ in contractor payouts. That experience led me to build Grade, the API for paying AI agents and contractors based on performance.