Leif

aid: leif
name: Leif
description: 'Leif (Leif Technologies, Inc.) was a New York City education-finance technology company, founded in 2017 by
  Francis Larson, Jeffrey Groeber and Richard Lee, that built an end-to-end platform for designing, originating, servicing
  and financing outcomes-aligned tuition products for schools and bootcamps. Its product line covered Income Share Agreements,
  contingent payment plans, tuition installment plans and upfront payment, alongside career-services and advisory-insights
  modules, and the platform handled student identity verification, credit evaluation, income verification, disbursement, payment
  collection and program reporting for its school partners. Leif publicly claimed more than 20,000 originations across 200+
  partner schools and over $400 million in arranged financing, and it raised a strategic financing round totalling more than
  $60 million in 2021. Leif never operated a public developer program: the archived marketing site carries no developer portal,
  API reference or documentation nav, and the only API surface ever visible was the private JSON API behind its own student
  and school applications (leif.org/api/*). As of the 2026-08-25 probe the company''s entire public surface is dark — leif.org
  and www.leif.org fail the TLS handshake at their Webflow edge, app.leif.org returns 504 on every path, the Zendesk help
  center is gone, and the api.leif.org and sandbox.leif.org AWS API Gateway hosts answer only "Missing Authentication Token".'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/leif/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-25'
modified: '2026-08-25'
tags:
- Company
- Education
- Education Finance
- Income Share Agreement
- Student Lending
- Fintech
- Financial-Services
- Tuition
- Payments
- Lending
- New York
tags_raw:
- Company
- Education
- Education Finance
- Income Share Agreement
- Student Lending
- Fintech
- Financial Services
- Tuition
- Payments
- Lending
- New York
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.leif.org/
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/leif_stock/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/leif-domain-security.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/leif-lifecycle.yml
- type: WellKnownProbe
  url: well-known/leif-well-known.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/leif-packages.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/leif-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/leif-rate-limits.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/leif-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-25'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 7
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: Leif's entire public surface is dark — leif.org and www.leif.org terminate the TLS handshake at their Webflow edge,
    app.leif.org returns 504 on every path, the leiforg.zendesk.com help center is gone, and the api.leif.org / sandbox.leif.org
    AWS API Gateway hosts answer only the unmatched-route default "Missing Authentication Token", with the last successful
    Internet Archive capture of the site dated 2025-11-09.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.leif.org/
    status: 0
  - url: https://app.leif.org/login
    status: 504
  - url: https://api.leif.org/openapi.json
    status: 403
  - url: https://leiforg.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
    status: 404
  - url: https://partners.leif.org/isa/leif
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-08-25'