Joel Mezistrano
Managing Director at LEHOKI
Mercer Island, Washington
Overview
Work Experience
VP of Corp Dev & Capital Markets
2024 - Current
Arrived is an investment platform empowering the world to build wealth through modern real estate investing Voluntarily transitioned out of the CFO role to focus exclusively on Capital Markets, Corporate Development, while continuing to assist with the financial architecture of our investment products.
Chief Financial Officer
2019 - 2024
Advisor and investor shortly after inception. Joined as CFO and drove the drove early real estate operations, financial architecture of the single asset REIT model + other retail debt and equity investment products, scaled the accounting team, raised over $100M in real estate debt capital on top of corporate debt facilities.
Arrived Homes provides rental home investment services to help people become financially independent.
Raised $201,459,400.00 from Neo, Leah Solivan, PSL Ventures, Bezos Expeditions, Good Friends, Spencer Rascoff, Core Innovation Capital and Forerunner.
Chief Financial Officer
2023
Agate Hound Fund is the world's first Fund of Funds for "Search Funds," the highest performing asset class over the last 40 years. www.agatehound.fund
Chief Financial Officer
2023
Generative AI platform dramatically enhancing customer engagement, workforce productivity and business insights.
Caju AI is an AI platform for enhancing customer engagement, workforce productivity, and business insights.
Raised $3,000,000.00 from Grotech Ventures, Felton Group and Jaffray Woodriff.
Principal
2016
Started Multi-Family & Mixed-Use Dev arm out of American Classic Homes before spinning it out. Developed 1000+ units across King and Snohomish Counties and continue to operate 700+ units as well as perform fee development services.
SeaLevel Properties is a real estate development company that specializes in multi-family development properties.
Board Member
2021
At TransformativeMed our CORES Platform of EHR solutions enable doctors and nurses to access patient data across clinical specialities and departments. Built-into our workflow: securely synchronize tasks; route alerts, notifications and secure messages across the entire care team. Our CORES disease-specific solutions streamline and standardize your patient care delivery, further ensuring their safety from admission to discharge. Clinicians can trust CORES as a single source of truth for the entire care team. For more information, visit www.TransformativeMed.com.
TransformativeMed Provides Cores Platform.
Raised $7,000,000.00 from Sierra Angels.
Managing Director
2016
LEHOKI is a multi-family office investment fund focusing on venture capital & startups, private credit, and private equity.
Member
2019
At Arrived Homes we are building an investing platform where anybody can buy shares in rental properties starting with $100 and start earning money from day one. Our goal is to make real estate investing easy and accessible to millions of people who don’t have the expertise, time, or large amounts of capital needed to buy a rental property on their own. Visit us at www.ArrivedHomes.com
We are a group of 140+ active angel investors. Each year, we invest $10M+ into 20+ startups and provide mentorship to help them succeed.
Partner
2010 - 2023
One of the areas largest locally owned builders, specializing in developing communities, custom homes, and multi-family projects in King County. http://www.americanclassichomes.com
American Classic Homes provides construction services.
Executive Vice President
2006 - 2012
OpenQ is the market leader in providing data and software to Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies to manager relationships with KOL's (Key Opinion Leaders).
OpenQ enables social and mobile collaboration in order to create a competitive advantage while overcoming compliance and exposure risks.
Raised $8,000,000.00 from Salesforce Ventures.
VP of Alliances
2005 - 2007
Source Medical is a medical practice management software provider with 3000+ customers and is focused on the outpatient market with products for Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Diagnostic Imaging Centers, and Therapy Centers.
SourceMedical provides information solutions and other critical services for ambulances.
Raised $23,500,000.00 from ABRY Partners.