Startup Cafe: Private Capital Strategies for Startups
☕️ Startup Cafe: Private Capital Strategies for Startups
Reza will explore how private capital is adapting to today’s dynamic credit environment, where traditional lenders have pulled back. He will highlight emerging opportunities for investors in complex, time-sensitive transactions often overlooked by banks.
The discussion will also cover how founders and business executives can better position their companies to access non-bank capital solutions.
Agenda
8:45 - 9:45 am • Coffee and Socialize
9:45 - 10:30 am • Scheduled Experience
July 30th, 2025
About: Reza Sabahi
Mr. Reza Sabahi is Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Tellaro Capital Partners, an alternative credit platform based in Los Angeles focused on originating and managing senior secured loans to lower middle-market companies. He leads a firm that is focused on credit opportunities where complexity, timing, or capital structure nuances create inefficiencies.
With over two decades of experience in direct lending, leveraged finance, and investment banking, Reza has underwritten more than $5 billion in credit facilities, navigating a broad range of capital structures, industries, and economic cycles. Prior to founding Tellaro, he served as Senior Managing Director and Head of the Commercial Capital direct lending platform at East West Bank (NASDAQ: EWBC), where he built the business from the ground up and led all aspects of origination, underwriting, and portfolio management.
Earlier in his career, he held senior investment roles at Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), as well as corporate strategy and finance roles in the consumer goods sector. As a founder and investor, Reza is passionate about building a firm with long-term alignment, entrepreneurial agility, and a deep understanding of the lower middle market’s unique capital needs.
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