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Nik Talreja Is Turning Venture Capital’s Paper Trail Into Rails
A lawyer became an investor, discovered the paperwork was the product, and built Sydecar to make private-market deals feel less like bespoke legal projects and more like dependable infrastructure.
Ferdinand Roberts
Ferdinand Roberts is the founder and CEO of Asset Class, a fintech company building an end-to-end software platform for private capital firms - covering fundraising, investor relations, investor portals, deal flow, portfolio management and fund administration. A technology executive with more than 25 years in the sector and senior roles at Yahoo!, Cisco and Ariba, he launched Asset Class in 2020 after seeing firsthand how disjointed private-market operations were while running capital markets for a private equity firm. In 2024 the company raised an $11.6M Series A led by Canapi Ventures, serving 300+ funds and around $33 billion in serviced assets across offices in Dublin, New York, London and Atlanta.
Mark Hurley
Mark Hurley is the co-founder and CEO of Caruso, an AI-native fund administration and registry platform for private markets that spun out of a property fund business in 2023 and now administers roughly $80 billion in assets across 900-plus funds. A serial New Zealand entrepreneur, he earlier built the digital agency Little Giant (sold to Dentsu Aegis Network in 2017) and co-founded the fractional commercial real estate firm Jasper in 2019. He splits his time between Auckland and Dallas and is an active early-stage investor in companies including Tracksuit, Sharesies and First AML.
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.
Adam Hyder
Adam Hyder is the Chief Development Officer and EVP of Engineering at Juniper Square, the private-markets technology company building the operating system for fund administration, investor relations, and partnership enablement. A technology leader with more than two decades of experience, he has run engineering and product at Malwarebytes, BlueJeans Network, Jobvite, and Yahoo HotJobs, and started his career working on Java in its earliest days at Sun Microsystems. He is known for scaling distributed global teams, shipping large-scale SaaS, consumer, and enterprise products, and turning sprawling roadmaps into shipped software.
Winston Lin
Winston Lin is a Program Manager in the Office of the CEO at Juniper Square, the San Francisco fintech that builds investment management software for private markets. Based in Austin, Texas, he sits at the operational center of a Series D company with roughly 950 employees, working close to the chief executive on the business operations and systems that keep a fast-scaling SaaS company running. Before fintech he spent his career in education technology, rising to Senior Director of Data Engineering at the charter-school network Achievement First. He holds a BA from Columbia University.
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.
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.
Alex Robinson
Alex Robinson is the CEO and Co-founder of Juniper Square, a San Francisco-based private markets software platform serving 2,000+ GPs managing over $1 trillion in investor equity. Founded in 2014 after Robinson spent years at Microsoft and building GreenDoor (a PACE clean energy lending platform that collapsed when federal regulators abruptly ended the subsidy program), Juniper Square has grown into a $1.1 billion unicorn after a $130M Series D in June 2025. Robinson's singular focus: digitizing the paper-and-spreadsheet world of private equity partnerships and making private markets infrastructure as reliable as the public markets infrastructure that came before it.
Yonas Fisseha
Yonas Fisseha is the Co-Founder and CTO of Juniper Square, the San Francisco-based private markets platform that manages over $1 trillion in LP capital across 40,000+ funds. A Michigan State-trained computer engineer whose career spans Motorola, Shopping.com, and Huddler.com, Yonas joined Juniper Square in 2014 at the invitation of co-founder Adam Ginsburg, who called him one of the best engineers he had ever worked with. Under his technical leadership, Juniper Square has grown to 950 employees, raised $576M in funding at a $1.1B valuation, and launched JunieAI, the first enterprise-grade AI platform purpose-built for private markets GPs.
Katherine Francis
Katherine Francis is an Analyst at Right Side Capital Management, a quantitative, data-driven pre-VC-stage investment firm in San Francisco that has backed over 1,900 tech startups since 2012. She brings nine years of specialized experience in venture fund accounting and administration, including a prior role as fund manager for a $2 billion fund administrator — expertise that keeps the operational gears turning at one of the most prolific early-stage VC firms in the US.