Banking lending

Level

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Level provides fast and simple financing to lending startups that gets them off the ground and grows with them as they scale. We do so by buying loans in small quantities at first and rewarding our customers with more access to capital based on performance. Co-founder & CEO, Vladimir Korshin, previously worked in the traditional venture debt system

Founded 2021Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Level provides fast and simple financing to lending startups that gets them off the ground and grows with them as they scale. We do so by buying loans in small quantities at first and rewarding our customers with more access to capital based on performance. Co-founder & CEO, Vladimir Korshin, previously worked in the traditional venture debt system at Silicon Valley Bank, where he noticed that strong startups were frequently denied from non-dilutive financing because they were too small. Just 4 weeks after going live with our first customer, we purchased $1.3M in loans across 6 customers. The founding team brings 30+ years of startup experience: Vladimir previously worked as an operator at Facebook, Eventbrite, and Niantic; Asa Schachar was an engineer at Microsoft and managed teams of engineers at Optimizely; Molly Hogan led new and international product initiatives at Amazon for over 7 years. Level is backed by Liquid2, Y Combinator (S21), and others. https://www.trylevel.app/

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
Banking lendingInfrastructureBusinessesSmall businessesTransaction fee

Founders & team

Vladimir Korshin

Founder

CEO of PathPilot. Previously CEO of Level, which was acquired by Vouch. In my past lives I was a venture banker at SVB and an operator at Facebook, Eventbrite, and Niantic.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Molly Hogan

Founder

COO of Level Amazon marketplace product veteran. Experienced 0 -to-1 business leader.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Asa Schachar

Founder

Asa is the co-founder and CTO of Voicepanel (YC W24). Asa met his cofounder, John, while working at Optimizely, where they collectively led the creation of Optimizely’s fastest growing $40M developer-focused product. After Optimizely, Asa cofounded Level (YC S21), which was acquired by Vouch. At Vouch, Asa managed half of the engineering team. Asa’s engineering career started at Microsoft after graduating from Harvard with a degree in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2021 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Website observationwebsite unreachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
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