Nadia Asoyan
CFO at Mesa
Encinitas, California
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Financial Officer
2025 - Current
Alpaca is a financial system platform that allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms.
Raised $86,800,000.00 from SBI Group.
Advisor
2025
Founding team - CFO
2024 - 2025
Our mission is to make homeownership more affordable and rewarding
Raised $9,200,000.00 from Assurant Ventures, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Starting Line, Streamlined Ventures, Redwood Trust, Vera Equity and Plug and Play.
Venture Partner
2021
One Way Ventures is a seed-stage fund that invests in immigrant tech founders.
Investor
2018
Seed and early stage investor including ( Puzzle io, Column Tax, Parafin, Airbase (acquired by Paylocity), Inscope, Helm AI, Bestow Insurance, Atlantic Money (Acquired by Deel), Pillar (acquired by Acorns), Repool, Copper Banking, Chipper Cash, Profi, Mesa, Kick, Sugaku)
Advisor
2019 - 2024
Airbase is a software company that offers spend management, bill payments, and invoice processing services.
Raised $251,500,000.00 from Goldman Sachs.
Chief Financial Officer
2022 - 2024
Oversaw Accounting, Finance, Support, Ops, People and Security team. - Led $70M+ of equity fundraising - Led 3 years of successful audits by Big4 - Led Soc 2 compliance - Led company from pre-revenue to profitability - Managed 4 bank runs and completed rebuilding of banking stack - Built and led annual and quarterly financial planning processes
Advisor
2020 - 2022
VP of Finance
2020 - 2022
Lead Accounting, Finance, Business Analytics, Finop and Legal teams at the fastest growing health tech company. - Led $150M debt syndication - Led $160M of equity fundraising - Led first successful audit by Big4 - Scaled finance and legal orgs from 6 people to 30+ - Built and led annual and quarterly financial planning processes
Trusted Inc is a labor marketplace for healthcare professionals.
Raised $174,800,000.00 from FJ Labs, Greenspring Associates, Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP) and Blue Gentian Capital.
VP Finance and Strategy
2016 - 2020
- First finance hire at Robinhood. - Built finance, accounting, treasury, finance operations and payroll functions from one person to 30+. - In charge of successful inception to date consolidated and standalone audits by Big4, ensured timely filings to SEC for required entities by March 1 deadline. - Implemented scalable systems across functions such as Oracle Fusion, Floqast, Procurement, Workiva, Expensify, Paylocity and Host Analytics. - Built GAAP accounting and product reporting functions. - Helped with fundraising, board meetings, compensation plans, company-wide policies and built company-wide finance review.Focused on building a world-class strategic finance team, including below: - Built and managed finance and strategy org at Robinhood, total of 10+ people from analyst to Sr. Manager level. - Built annual planning and quarterly, monthly budgets processes that would align with companies OKRs. - Supported and helped making strategic decisions around the company marketing strategy, product roadmap and pricing, headcount growth, operational efficiencies. - Led board preparation process and investor reporting. - Led and supported fundraising for Series C-E and credit facility efforts for total of $1.1B.
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.
Raised $6,234,466,886.00 from Emergent Fidelity Technologies.
Accounting Lead
2013 - 2016
- Led automation and accounting close improvements as part of IPO readiness, helping to get close to BD5 from BD15. - Led and managed all cash related processes, including defining accounting for new processes within a field, review of monthly entries performed by staff accountants, implementing cash management tool within Oracle conversion and cash automation via Blackline. - Managed the review of monthly close in platform activity, accruals, cap soware, AP and COGS performed by various accountants. - Led the project of automation of all cash processes via Blackline, which allowed to automate all cash entry posting and reconciliation of platform activity to internal systems and allowed to Company to save 200 hours monthly and identify real discrepancies that would be resolved on time. - Built close accounting process tools via Blackline including reconciliation and tasks modules, which allowed the team to have more define and complete close process for IPO. - Responsible for all financial reports, including P&L statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows, as well as the year-end financial reports. - Managed audit process for Square's financials in the many areas such as product accounting, cash, cap software, assets, revenue, marketing and legal expenses.
Square is a software company that designs and develops omnichannel solutions.