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Lotanna Ezeike

Lotanna Ezeike

YC W26

CEO, Co-founder at Grade

Lotanna Ezeike was a product lead at Barclays focused on digital payments, and previously managed contractor payouts at another venture-backed company. He is now building Grade, an API for performance-based payments to AI agents and contractors.

Intro paths

YC

Lotanna went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

In turn, Lotanna can intro founders to Grade's investors below.

Grade's investors · 1

Co-founders

James Heaney· Founder, CTO