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Ravi Ravulaparthi and the promise inside the paperwork
After years advising founders, Ravi Ravulaparthi became one. His Qapita journey connects two homes, three long-standing friends, and a belief that the people building a company should have a part in its future.
Andy Choi Is Replacing Private-Market Spreadsheets With Infrastructure
He learned to code, learned to invest, and then found a business hiding in the spreadsheets between founders and funds. Now Quota Lab is trying to turn South Korea's private-market paperwork into durable financial infrastructure.
Graham McConnell
Graham McConnell is the CEO and co-founder of Nth Round, a Philadelphia fintech that helps private companies, family enterprises and funds manage equity, run investor portals, distribute reports and create shareholder liquidity. A Dartmouth cognitive science graduate who oversaw software at the $25B quant firm AJO Partners before launching the company with his father in 2018, he is a self-described saver and Bogle-style passive investor on a mission to simplify and democratize private investing.
Henry Ward
Henry Ward is the co-founder and CEO of Carta, the San Francisco company that started life in 2012 as eShares with a single, stubborn idea: paper stock certificates should be digital. A decade later, his platform tracks ownership for tens of thousands of private companies, thousands of funds, and well over a million equity holders.