leaf was founded in january 2011 by aron schwarzkopf and sebastian castro and is financially backed by angel investors. schwarzkopf graduated from babson college with a degree in entrepreneurship in 2010 and a vague idea of how he wanted to revolutionize the way local companies do business in a world increasingly shifting to the cloud. since then, he has led leaf from an idea on a napkin through the introduction of its built-for-business tablet in late 2012, to a platform that processes more than $30 million a year in payments. leaf started in the boston metro market and recently revealed plans to move into more than 12 us markets in 2013.