The Team Engineering the Future of Private Markets
Raylu started with a conviction: the best investors in the world deserve better than decades-old ways of sourcing deals. So we built the engine that puts them in position to win, purpose-built for how funds actually work.
The Founders
We believe investors should spend their time investing.
We built Raylu because too much of investing is still spent searching, sorting, and stitching information together. We'd rather investors spend that time choosing, convincing, and winning deals.
Ali Dastjerdi
Co-founder & CEO
Nathan Ondracek
Co-founder & CTO
Sam Ilkka
Co-founder & COO
Mission
Make private markets move like public markets.
Our mission is to automate the hardest work in investing, beginning with the most demanding frontier: private markets.
Through Raylu, funds run origination end to end. Every market mapped, every company scored, every relationship built, so you're in position to deploy capital.
This is not a better workflow. It's rethinking how this market operates.
We're rebuilding origination for an AI-native world, where the edge goes to the firms with the sharpest judgment, not the ones doing the most manual work.
We ship fast and work hands-on with the funds that run on us.
And we're just getting started.
