Focal
AI automation for enterprises
Focal enables large enterprises to effectively leverage AI to automate traditionally manual workflows. Our initial focus is geared towards helping financial institutions automate compliance, risk, and dispute operations.
Active Founders
Katia Bazzi, Co-Founder
Katia is the CTO of Focal, building AI automation for enterprises. Previously, Katia was an engineering leader at Stripe -- there, she launched new financial products such as credit cards and banking as a service, processing >$6B per year. Before that, she led engineering teams at a distributed tracing startup (Lightstep) and Eventbrite after graduating from CMU.
Ray Morgan, CEO / Co-Founder
Ray is the CEO of Focal, building AI automation for enterprise companies. Before Focal, Ray spent 10 years at Stripe leading and scaling the core payments engineering teams (<$10B payments volume to well over $100B a year), launching new products (Stripe Issuing, new payment methods), and worked on Stripe’s enterprise readiness efforts to enable enterprise accounts like Amazon. Prior to Stripe, Ray started a company that got acquired by Ebay and led the frontend engineering team at Zappos.
