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The Levo Financial team, which now calls Salt Lake City home, has UTC and Chattanooga ties. From left: Justin Clark (system architect), Zach McCormick (CEO), Nick McCormick (front-end developer), Dillon Martin (COO and head of compliance).<\/p><\/div>\n

Since 2005, Y Combinator\u2014a technology startup accelerator\u2014has been used to launch more than 3,500 companies, including Airbnb, DoorDash, Dropbox, Instacart, Quora and Reddit.<\/p>\n

Twice a year, Y Combinator<\/strong><\/a> invests $500,000 per company in many startups\u2014accepting only 1.5-2% of more than 15,000 companies that apply each cycle\u2014working intensively with the companies for three months to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day, when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invitation-only audience.<\/p>\n

The current cycle, known as YC Summer 2022 batch, has a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga link.<\/p>\n

Dillon Martin, a 2017 UTC graduate with a bachelor\u2019s degree in finance, and Justin Clark, who received a master\u2019s in computer science from UTC in 2019, are two of the four founders of a mobile financial app called Levo Financial<\/strong><\/a>\u2014one of approximately 250 startups accepted into the summer cohort.<\/p>\n

Martin and Clark are believed to be the first UTC alums to participate in Y Combinator.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to get into YC because this is the pinnacle of startup accelerators; it\u2019s the premier startup accelerator in the world,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n

The best elements of investing and banking are combined in Levo, a spendable investment account. It\u2019s used similar to a checking account; your funds are invested in stocks and bonds while still being readily accessible through a debit card, along with other convenient banking features.<\/p>\n

The appeal of Levo is that it offers an alternative to traditional bank accounts. Your financial requirements are satisfied without forcing you to give up investment returns.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis solves a problem that we all have felt, and that problem is the issue of liquidity and having to transfer money between accounts and having to always hold something in cash,\u201d Martin said. \u201c We really wanted everything we had to be able to be invested, but we wanted to have liquidity at the same time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to be able to spend and pay bills with our invested balances instead of having to just sit there and lose to inflation with a cash balance in a checking account.\u201d<\/p>\n

To date, the company has raised $1.6 million in funding en route to being accepted into Y Combinator.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir motto is \u2018build something that people want,\u2019\u201d Martin said, \u201cand that\u2019s something that we believe we\u2019ve done. This is something that resonates with a lot of people, and with the backing of Y Combinator, this gets us out there in a big way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Six years ago during his time as a Gary W. Rollins College of Business student, Martin was president of the SMILE Fund (Student Managed Investment Learning Experience)\u2014at that time a fledgling organization.<\/p>\n

These days, he\u2019s getting ready to present in front of 1,000-plus investors.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, gosh. I know. I talk to my parents about that all the time. It feels like 15 years have gone by,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a very strange trajectory to have taken to reach the pinnacle here with a fully live startup.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the organization\u2019s second president, Martin was there when the SMILE Fund gained traction. He said that experience set him on the path to entrepreneurship because SMILE Fund students are self-taught in many ways.<\/p>\n

To keep up with everyone else in the fund, he said, you can\u2019t wait for a professor to explain something to you in the classroom. You have to figure it out, just like with a startup.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe SMILE Fund is the core element of my trajectory into the entrepreneurship world,\u201d Martin said. \u201cI spent a lot of time with Dr. (Hunter) Holzhauer and Dr. (Bento) Lobo, both of whom had a huge impact on me in the College of Business, and that\u2019s because I had a lot of time with them outside of class.<\/p>\n

\u201cI particularly had a lot of time with Dr. Holzhauer. When he picked me to lead the SMILE Fund, we had a whole lot to build, a whole lot of new things. We were making up a lot of things as we went. And this aligns with kind of the startup methodology in that you\u2019re just figuring it out along the way and you have to learn a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After graduating from UTC, Martin worked at Merrill Lynch as a financial adviser before opening a hedge fund called Alpha Southern Capital.<\/p>\n

A few months after Martin graduated, Clark came to UTC to begin a master\u2019s program in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.<\/p>\n

At the same time, he also was a member of a hedge fund group\u2014White Oak Capital Management\u2014along with brothers he had known since middle school, Zach and Nick McCormick. Clark and the McCormicks ran track and cross country together at East Hamilton High School in Ooltewah, Tennessee, before spending their undergrad years at UT Knoxville.<\/p>\n

The members of the different hedge funds eventually met\u2014the first time Martin\u2019s and Clark\u2019s paths crossed\u2014and soon joined forces in early 2019.<\/p>\n

Not long after that, Zach McCormick pitched the idea of Levo, a concept that \u201cresonated with all of us,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n

In order to build and launch Levo, the four moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, the Silicon Valley of financial technology, in early 2021.<\/p>\n

As one can expect with a financial technology company, there were regulatory hurdles to get around and infrastructure to build.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took us a year and a half to get to where we are today,\u201d Martin said, \u201cand now we have the app available for download.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin said Levo\u2019s four members wear many hats. He is the chief operating officer, head of compliance and head of growth. Clark is the system architect. Zach McCormick is CEO and head of product. Nick McCormick is lead developer.<\/p>\n

Clark, who praised his College of Engineering and Computer Science thesis adviser, Hong Qin, and Professor Yu Liang, likened his role to putting out fires that may arise.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe system architect role is kind of like backend infrastructure,\u201d Clark explained. \u201cI generally do the backend engineering and all of the orchestration of the services that we need to provide to our users.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of his principal responsibilities is monitoring \u201canomalous behavior,\u201d he said. \u201cFor example, one of the things that every financial technology company has to worry about is fraud and fraud detection.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also pointed out the relative newness of working with serverless architectures.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of a new iteration of cloud computing where we are not having to maintain our own servers,\u201d Clark said. \u201cWe rely on AWS (Amazon Web Services) to keep the systems running because that\u2019s where their expertise is. There\u2019s been this whole movement around serverless architectures because it makes things a lot more scalable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Martin said Y Combinator is known for investing in founders, not companies.<\/p>\n

With startups, so many things will change along the way, \u201cbut what\u2019s really important is that there\u2019s a core founding team that works well together and will last,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Levo is still in its startup stage. At one point, so were companies like Airbnb and DoorDash.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s very wild,\u201d Martin said of being mentioned in the same sentence, \u201cbut I would say the most impactful part of this is that we actually speak with these people. We can message them right now and speak with the CEO of Airbnb; they speak to us throughout the batch and do batch presentations. You can ask them questions and you can learn from their mistakes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just having a name mentioned with other great names; it\u2019s that this network is a form of communication across very skilled people who have done something few people can.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sept. 7, Martin, Clark and the McCormicks will present their company to more than 1,000 venture capital firms and angel investors invited by Y Combinator.<\/p>\n

From there, the Levo team expects aggressive growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to perfect the product, grow as fast as we can and build our company,\u201d Martin said. \u201cWe expect to be bursting at the seams along the way. There are phases of this that\u2014of course\u2014you can\u2019t know how it will look beforehand. We can prepare all we can before, but it\u2019s going to be wild.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Clark said, \u201cThis product has the opportunity to change things and change how people think about money, especially younger people just starting their careers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love being a part of this and helping bring it to life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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