Arjun Dev Arora Arjun is the Founder of Format One. He advises funds, startups, LPs and Fortune 100 companies. His core areas of support for startups include strategy, GTM, product, monetization, and fundraising. Often described by founders as "the closest advisor" or "consigliere" and by VCs as a "helpful external board partner" or "LPAC like advisor". He is also an active individual investor in startups and venture funds. He has invested in companies including but not limited to Anthropic, Firefly Aerospace, Prometheus, Mach Industries, OpenAI, Perplexity, Lyft, RapidAPI, Branch, Flexport, Virta Health, Ashby, Truebill, Anduril, Ethic, Notion, Elroy Air and many more. Prior to founding Format One, Arjun was In Residence at Expa, a Partner at 500 Startups (actively investing and responsible for fundraising for the firm), Founder & CEO of ReTargeter (acquired by Sellpoints in 2015), head of business development @ Yahoo! Real Estate and an investment banker with Jefferies Broadview. He was also the Chairman of the Board of the Saint Francis Foundation (a $100M+ Cambridge Associates managed foundation) and sat on it's investment and grants committees.
Arjun Dev Arora Arjun is the Founder of Format One. He advises funds, startups, LPs and Fortune 100 companies. His core areas of support for startups include strategy, GTM, product, monetization, and fundraising. Often described by founders as "the closest advisor" or "consigliere" and by VCs as a "helpful external board partner" or "LPAC like advisor". He is also an active individual investor in startups and venture funds. He has invested in companies including but not limited to Anthropic, Firefly Aerospace, Prometheus, Mach Industries, OpenAI, Perplexity, Lyft, RapidAPI, Branch, Flexport, Virta Health, Ashby, Truebill, Anduril, Ethic, Notion, Elroy Air and many more. Prior to founding Format One, Arjun was In Residence at Expa, a Partner at 500 Startups (actively investing and responsible for fundraising for the firm), Founder & CEO of ReTargeter (acquired by Sellpoints in 2015), head of business development @ Yahoo! Real Estate and an investment banker with Jefferies Broadview. He was also the Chairman of the Board of the Saint Francis Foundation (a $100M+ Cambridge Associates managed foundation) and sat on it's investment and grants committees.
Career
Arjun Dev Arora is from San Francisco.
Arjun Dev Arora studied at University of California - Berkeley (B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science).
In Residence at Expa from 2018-09 to 2022
Partner at 500 Global from 2015-12 to 2018-01
Investment Banker at Jefferies LLC from 2006 to 2007