# Ross Mechanic

> Ross Mechanic is the co-founder and CEO of Maybern, a New York fintech building the financial operating system for private funds. A software engineer by training, he watched fund accounting teams duplicate the same capital-call and waterfall math across roughly 100 spreadsheets at Cadre, and built Maybern to automate it. The company supports more than $80 billion in assets across 150+ fund vehicles and raised a $50 million Series B led by Battery Ventures in late 2025.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Maybern
- **Organizations:** Maybern, Human Capital, Cadre, University of Pennsylvania
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BSE, Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
- **Known for:** Co-founded Maybern in July 2021 and serves as CEO, Raised roughly $76 million across funding rounds, including a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures, Built a platform supporting more than $80 billion in assets under management across 150+ fund vehicles

## Career timeline

- **2017** — Graduates from the University of Pennsylvania with a BSE in Computer Science
- **2017** — Joins Cadre, starting as a data engineering intern and rising to staff engineer
- **2020** — Runs the engineering team that designs and builds Cadre's fund accounting system from scratch
- **2021** — Becomes Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Human Capital, researching proptech and private fund operations
- **2021** — Co-founds Maybern in July with Ashwin Raghu, former CTO of Cadre
- **2024** — Raises a $14M Series A led by Primary Venture Partners
- **2025** — Raises a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures; supports $80B+ in AUM across 150+ fund vehicles

## Achievements

- Co-founded Maybern in July 2021 and serves as CEO
- Raised roughly $76 million across funding rounds, including a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures
- Built a platform supporting more than $80 billion in assets under management across 150+ fund vehicles
- Achieved 4.6x year-over-year growth in the year before the Series B
- Designed and built Cadre's fund accounting system as a staff engineer before founding Maybern

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Maybern raised a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures; Battery's Marcus Ryu, former Guidewire CEO, joined the board.
- **2024-12** — Profiled by Commercial Observer on his mission to make life easier for private equity CFOs.
- **2024-05** — Maybern raised a $14M Series A led by Primary Venture Partners.

## Links

- Website: https://maybern.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rossmechanic
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/rossmechanic
- GitHub: https://github.com/rossmechanic

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Last updated: 2026-06-06