Accounting finance ops

Paperplane

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Paperplane helps builders', plumbing, and timber merchants mitigate their credit risk by predicting which customers will default 4+ weeks before anyone else. Instead of relying solely on credit reports and lagging public data, Paperplane uses the company's own transaction data and customer knowledge directly from sales reps to make more accurate pr

Founded 2022Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Paperplane helps builders', plumbing, and timber merchants mitigate their credit risk by predicting which customers will default 4+ weeks before anyone else. Instead of relying solely on credit reports and lagging public data, Paperplane uses the company's own transaction data and customer knowledge directly from sales reps to make more accurate predictions in real-time.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Jack Hopkins

Founder

I left Cambridge with a post-graduate degree in Advanced Computer Science and peer-reviewed research in generative language models receiving almost 100 citations in the field. I started a company applying LMs to API security, where I met Daniel Kwak, who led my Seed Round. I left this company to join Daniel and Ben in building NLP for Sales. In my spare time I enjoy rowing long distances. Once I rowed unsupported from Africa to America in 40 days.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Ben Magolan

Founder

Previous ML Ops tech lead at Xometry and software engineer at the Naval Nuclear Laboratory. Attained his PhD in Nuclear Engineering at MIT specializing in reactor coolant modeling and simulation.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
5team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2022 · Source

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Sources & observations

Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationwebsite unreachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedNew York City, NY, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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