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Founder Friends Finovate
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| With Jamie Melzer (Altra Venture Partners), Arjun Mahadevan (CEO, Doola). |
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Sep 08 (Mon) , 2025 @ 06:30 PM
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Join the NYC founder community to connect with other founders & hear war stories from a founder who went through the wringer & came out the other side.
Meet Arjun Mahadevan, CEO of doola
Arjun is CEO & Founder at doola.com & host of the 15-minute founder podcast. Before that, Arjun started on the Data & Analytics team at Dropbox before moving to Product Manager on the Growth team. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania where he completed a dual degree between The Wharton School & The College of Arts & Sciences, concentrating in Statistics & majoring in Mathematics. Outside of work, he's into health & fitnesss, & Boston sports.
About doola
doola (Y Combinator S20) helps entrepreneurs start & scale U.S. businesses by providing an all-in-one back-end solution for both new formations & existing businesses. Founders can focus on growth without the complexity of working with multiple service providers. doola provides formation, a Registered Agent Service, a Virtual Business Address, an EIN, a U.S. business bank account, phone number, & payment processor through its partners, bookkeeping, business tax filings, sales tax compliance, business analytics, free U.S. CPA tax consultations, & over $100,000 in startup perks. doola has supported 10,000+ businesses & founders from over 175 countries use its platform without needing a U.S. Social Security Number. doola has raised $13 million in venture capital from Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, HubSpot Ventures, Hustle Fund & more (HQ: New York City).
Why Arjun built doola
Talent is everywhere. But opportunity is not. doola is on a mission to help 1B people turn their dream idea into their dream US business & democratize access to the US financial ecosystem. With our Business-in-a-Box solution, we can single-handedly increase entrepreneurship globally by making it click button easy to start & scale a US business, from anywhere in the world.
The Interviewer:
Jamie Melzer is the founder & managing partner of New York based alternative asset manager, Altra Venture Partners. Altra invests in the next generation of market-leading, venture backed technology companies 2 to 5 years before an expected IPO. Altra specializes in providing liquidity to early stakeholders through secondary transactions & LP buyouts & is a minority investor in growth equity rounds. Its portfolio includes incredible pre-IPO companies like Anthropic, Anduril, Canva, CoreWeave, Databricks, Epic Games, Shield AI, Webflow, & more.
Jamie brings nearly 20 years of institutional research & investing experience across public & private asset classes including high yield & distressed credit, public equities, & venture capital. Jamie has a deep understanding of valuation & risk analysis & leverages this background to apply a public market lens to investing in pre-IPO technology companies.
The Schedule
6:30-7:30pm: Get here, eat pizza, make friends
7:30-8pm: Fireside chat w/ Arjun & Jamie
8-8:30pm: Q&A
8:30-9pm: Finish pizza, make more friends
9pm: End
Who's behind this?
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Fidelity Private Shares SM is committed to supporting the startup & venture capital ecosystem. We help companies prepare for their next round of funding with our cap table management & data room platform & offer educational content, events, & opportunities for community connections.
No matter where you are in your journey - from idea to exit, & beyond - Fidelity has the solutions to support you.
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Hustle Fund is an early stage venture firm that believes great founders can look like anyone & come from anywhere. We invest in startups all over the world & we'd love to see what you're building. Learn more about us.
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