There’s a great article in UC Berkeley’s COE Engineering News about Rapleaf and its origins. Check it out here.

[…] RapLeaf traces its roots to Shah. In the spring of 2005, he was a student in the College’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (CET) program. In his CET class IEOR 190A, he heard a guest lecture on Silicon Valley entrepreneurship by Hoffman, a successful businessman who has founded three companies. After graduating, Shah called Hoffman and pitched him an idea for a system that would make people more ethical. […]