Krishan Arora is the Founder & CEO of ‘The Arora Project’, a fundraising media agency that has raised and invested over $125 million in high-growth ventures worldwide. The Arora Project combines a specialized focus on venture fundraising with the capabilities of a data-driven growth marketing agency, enabling companies to both secure capital and achieve significant scale post-fundraising. This strategic blend of expertise led to The Arora Project’s eight-figure acquisition by Republic.com in Q4 2021. (https://techcrunch.com/podcast/republic-acquires-crowdfunding-media-agency-arora-project-in-multi-million-dollar-deal) Following this acquisition, Krishan Arora assumed the role of Managing Director & CMO at Novastone Capital, a Switzerland-based Private Equity Fund backed by a consortium of Single Family Offices and Institutional Funds. Novastone Capital Advisors (NCA) specializes in acquiring and scaling profitable SMEs worldwide. To date, NCA has deployed over $380 million in capital and acquired 22 portfolio companies across the globe. A Harvard graduate with a concentration in Economics, Krishan has amassed more than a decade of experience in investor fundraising and growth marketing. His expertise in scaling innovative ventures revolves around creating and converting global online communities, an approach that has reached hundreds of millions of people and generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Krishan is an active contributor to the Forbes Agency Council, writing on entrepreneurship, digital media, and venture fundraising.