
After four years building the machinery inside a credit fund, Mohit Gupta chose the messiest spreadsheet on the desk as his startup brief. Three YC applications later, Levocred arrived with customers already using it.

After decades inside large finance companies, Kiran Kapur made his first entrepreneurial bet on a neglected corner of the middle market. Ten years later, 36th Street Capital shows what can happen when a lender treats complexity as work to be understood, not a reason to walk away.