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Lotanna Ezeike 💳

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Co-Founder, CEO at Grade (YC W26)
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Lotanna is the Co-Founder and CEO of Grade, a YC W26 company focused on helping brands scale user-generated content by simplifying performance-based payouts. With a background in Economics from the University of Leicester, he has a history of building and successfully exiting multiple consumer apps, generating over $500k from these ventures.

Originally from London, Lotanna relocated to San Francisco in 2025, a year that marked significant personal and professional milestones, including selling a company and getting into Y Combinator. He is a serial entrepreneur who has been building and scaling consumer applications for over five years.

Unique fact: He has successfully built and sold four different applications, starting from an idea and taking them through to acquisition.

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Experience
2 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder, CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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UGC Monetization
His company and personal posts focus on helping brands scale UGC by solving the challenges of creator payouts and compliance.
Building Consumer Apps
He has over five years of experience building consumer apps, reaching over 1 million monthly active users and achieving multiple successful exits.
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Career

Work history

7-2025
Co-Founder, CEO
Grade (YC W26)
7-2024 - 6-2025
Principal Product Officer (Consumer AI)
Founders, Inc.
4-2023 - 1-2024
Senior Product Manager
Morressier
10-2022 - 3-2023
Product Manager
Accruent
9-2022 - 2-2023
Founder
TripVisa
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Education
2016 - 2020
Economics
University of Leicester
2014 - 2016
Economics
Dartford Grammar School
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