Our Program

We run a 7-week long program focused on CEO scaling. Each week, we cover a different company-building topic ranging from executive hiring and management to scaling engineering and scaling people.

Each session is taught by CEOs and operators from the world's best companies because we believe founders and operators are the best teachers, not investors.  These experienced operators provide tactical advice founders can implement today, share inside stories, and discuss issues they faced while scaling their companies. We also share our perspectives based on our experience working with over 100 growth-stage companies in the last 10 years.

The program requires 1-2 hours of time per week for 7 weeks and we are strict on attendance. We keep batch sizes small and between 10-12 companies. Our first batch had 11 companies. This enables sessions to stay tactically relevant for each company.

Who is a good fit?

  • Post Series A startups with strong-product market fit that are approaching 30-50 employees
  • The program is currently invite-only

Why participate?

  • Gain a community of the world’s best growth stage founder peers facing the same challenges as you
  • Learn directly from CEOs and operators who have successfully scaled their companies
  • Access a growing library of growth stage best practices sourced from our community and programs

If you are interested in learning more about the program, contact us using the form below.

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Our Alumni

What our community says about our program

"Two of the most important things you need as a founder: 1) advice from founders who are at a stage ahead of you so they can tell you all the ways they screwed up so you don't make those same mistakes and 2) peers who are the same stage to lament with about all the ways you still screw up.

Avra has both of these things. Both sets of founders are some of the best in the world and the advice was on point. Concretely: the advice on exec hiring directly informed the process for an exec we were hiring at the time and I don't think we would have hired that person were it not for the program."

Ben Firshman
Founder
,
Replicate

"Many programs targeted at founders waste their time. Avra proved to be the opposite. Learning how to not only build a great product but build a great company from leaders like Parker Conrad, Tony Xu, and Greg Schott resulted in actionable ways to scale a higher performing company. And I continue to trade notes with peers from our cohort."

Joseph Nelson
Founder
,
Roboflow

"The program was so helpful for our stage. I loved learning from exceptional guests like Tony Xu, founder of Doordash. The sessions were not fireside chats you can find online. These founders shared the raw, vulnerable stories and lots of tactical advice on how to scale. I have learned a ton from it."

Cris Valenzuela
Founder
,
RunwayML

"The program was excellent. Primarily they invited some of the most exceptional CEOs who have faced similar challenges that we are going through now. The program is well-structured, filling in a lot of the blind spots we had over the next 24 month horizon."

Paul Copplestone
Founder
,
Supabase

"Avra pulled together an incredible group of founders building great companies, with whom I was able to build lasting friendships during the program. Anu and team have a strong network of mentors who shared their experiences and war stories, which I often refer back to when thinking through how to tackle the challenges we face as a company."

Siggi Simonarson
Founder
,
BuildBuddy

"Early growth companies are in an awkward phase: you may have PMF, but still have a lot to figure out. [Avra’s] program hits all the biggest, hardest challenges we are dealing with, and gives us a chance to spend time with experts and peers who have gone through the same thing. It was super useful. My only feedback is that I wish the program went longer"

Barry McCardel
Founder
,
Hex

"One of the hardest aspects of building a business is understanding what great looks like - leadership teams; CEO operating principles; cultural norms. The program assembled the strongest group of speakers you could imagine for understanding the paths to scaling a successful venture business."

Colin Zima
Founder
,
Omni

Our Companies

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Roboflow

Roboflow is the world’s largest platform for developers to build & deploy custom computer vision models.

Batch #1

Replicate

Replicate enables all developers to run machine learning models with a cloud API, without having to manage your own infrastructure.

Batch #1

Supabase

Supabase is the leading open-source alternative to Firebase, building developer tools to help customers build and deploy web and mobile apps.

Batch #1

Hex

Hex is the world’s leading collaborative data workspace, making analytics workflows more powerful, collaborative, and shareable.

Batch #1

Runway

Runway is a leading applied AI research company building the next generation of content creation tools.

Batch #1

BuildBuddy

BuildBuddy provides enterprise features for developers to better utilize Bazel.

Batch #1

Pulppo

Pulppo is building Shopify for real estate brokerages, starting in Mexico.

Batch #1

Omni

Omni is a next-generation BI and data platform, building the fastest way to turn SQL into intelligence.

Batch #1

Momence

Momence is building Shopify for the experience economy, starting with the health and wellness vertical.

Batch #1

Method Financial

Method Financial’s vision is to make personal debt management self-driven and autonomous, offering a single API to empower users to view and pay debts on any platform.

Batch #1

Clerk

Clerk is building the future of authentication for React.

Batch #1

AnyScale

Anyscale is democratizing distributed computing by enabling developers of any skill level to build, deploy, and manage AI applications.

Batch #2

HeyGen

HeyGen is the fastest-growing generative AI platform that revolutionizes video production for business by providing cutting-edge AI avatar and video technology.

Batch #2

Incident.io

Incident is building the world's best incident management platform to help companies when things go wrong.

Batch #2

mlfoundry

mlFoundry provides scalable compute infrastructure purpose built for machine learning.

Batch #2

Backbone

Backbone is building the future of gaming by turning any mobile device into a powerful cloud gaming device.

Batch #2

Posthog

PostHog is building the single platform to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features.

Batch #2

Glide

Glide enables companies to create powerful and beautiful apps without writing a single line of code.

Batch #2

Slope

Slope is the leading payments platform for enterprise wholesalers digitizing their B2B payments.

Batch #2

Clair

Clair is building a digital banking platform that allows America's workforce to get paid when they need it within payroll and workforce systems they already use.

Batch #2

Liveflow

Liveflow is building financial tools to help millions of SMBs manage their business starting with turning spreadsheets into scalable FP&A apps.

Batch #2

Luminai

Luminai helps businesses automate repetitive and mission critical business processes using safe and effective AI

Batch #2

Anrok

Anrok provides sales tax infrastructure for digital businesses

Batch #2