Krishan Arora Knows a Thing or Two About Scaling a Business

Entrepreneurs are constantly confronted with questions about growing and selling their businesses. These are questions Krishan Arora not only knows how to answer but has also built a remarkable career on.

As a Miami-based entrepreneur, Krishan has made a successful living out of scaling high-growth ventures through The Arora Project. Established in 2016, the Arora Project is an agency that has invested over $125 Million into high-growth ventures around the world. The business grew rapidly until it was acquired by Republic.com in 2022 for a whopping eight-figure multi-million dollar deal. 

Having a taste for high-ticket mergers and acquisitions, Krishan is setting his sights on his next big deal. He recently partnered with Novastone Capital Advisors, a private equity firm, to launch a search fund aimed at acquiring a business with an enterprise value of $50 Million dollars. 

The Venture Builder

Krishan’s entrepreneurial story began while at Harvard, where he studied economics and developed a passion for business. After graduating at the top of his class, Krishan’s entrepreneurial desire led him to start The Arora Project with the goal of helping other entrepreneurs rapidly scale their ventures. To date, the fundraising campaigns Krishan and his data-driven team of experts led have reached hundreds of millions of people worldwide and generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue. 

One of The Arora Project’s most successful campaigns was Plannuh, a budget tool for marketing executives. Krishan’s team built Plannuh’s customer acquisition strategy, acquired their initial beta customers, and set up a high-converting email list. Based on the work they did in the first two years, Plannuh’s CEO was able to raise a multi-million dollar venture round, with $2 million from Google’s AI fund.

The $50 Million Search Fund

After spending years in venture fundraising and championing its merits at The Arora Project, there’s another model for entrepreneurship that Krishan wants to undertake – the search fund. Search funds are a model for entrepreneurs to raise capital, acquire an existing profitable business, and create value for shareholders. Instead of starting from scratch, entrepreneurs can fast-track the business journey by taking over an established company to operate and scale. 

Search Funds clearly benefit the entrepreneurs and investors who purchase a business. But what would drive a business owner to entrust their legacy to someone like Krishan? The answer lies not only in Krishan’s deep mergers & acquisitions experience and his background in raising 100’s of millions of investor dollars for businesses globally but also in a widespread need in the American business landscape. In the U.S., there are more than 24 million family-owned businesses, 61% of which do not have a future growth plan in place. 

This gap is precisely what led Novastone Capital Advisors to select Krishan from thousands of applicants to identify, purchase, and scale a company in the digital media sector. Together, Novastone and Krishan are looking to target and purchase a company between $1 million to $5 million in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA). 

Sealing the Deal

Even with an international private equity fund behind him, finding and buying a business is no easy job. The pressure isn’t just on finding a target to acquire, it’s on finding the right one. Then afterwards, it’s about executing a deal that meets the needs and expectations of all parties involved. Krishan points out this phase in the process is where 99% of individuals in the search fund arena typically fail. Many may eventually find a promising target, but they aren’t able to close the deal at the end of the day. 

Krishan’s experiences have uniquely equipped him to overcome these challenges and succeed with his search fund. His insight into the nuanced motives behind why business owners decide to sell, his extensive experience scaling businesses through The Arora Project, and his successful navigation of his company to an eight-figure exit, all combine to make him the right man for the $50 million dollar search fund job.