​Let's hang!

​​​Join the NYC founder community to connect with other founders and hear war stories from a founder who went through the wringer and came out the other side.

​​​Meet Arjun Mahadevan, CEO of doola

​Arjun is CEO and Founder at doola.com and 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 and The College of Arts and Sciences, concentrating in Statistics and majoring in Mathematics. Outside of work, he's into health & fitness, LLCs, and Boston sports.

​About doola

​doola (Y Combinator S20) helps entrepreneurs start and scale U.S. businesses by providing an all-in-one back-end solution for both new formations and existing businesses. Founders can focus on growth without the complexity of working with multiple service providers. doola provides LLC formation, a Registered Agent Service, a Virtual Business Address, an EIN, a U.S. business bank account, phone number, and payment processor through its partners, bookkeeping, business tax filings, sales tax compliance, business analytics, free U.S. CPA tax consultations, and over $100,000 in startup perks. doola has supported 10,000+ businesses and 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 and 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 and 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 and scale a US business, from anywhere in the world.

​The Interviewer:

​Jamie Melzer is the founder and 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 and LP buyouts and 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, and more.

​Jamie brings nearly 20 years of institutional research and investing experience across public and private asset classes including high yield and distressed credit, public equities, and venture capital. Jamie has a deep understanding of valuation and risk analysis and 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 and Jamie

​​​8-8:30pm: Q&A

​8:30-9pm: Finish pizza, make more friends

​9pm: End

​​​Who's behind this?

​​​Fidelity Private Shares SM  is committed to supporting the startup and venture capital ecosystem. We help companies prepare for their next round of funding with our cap table management and data room platform and offer educational content, events, and opportunities for community connections.

​​​No matter where you are in your journey – from idea to exit, and beyond – Fidelity has the solutions to support you.

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