Ori Eldarov (@leveredvlad) / X

Ori Eldarov

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Ori Eldarov

@leveredvlad

CEO @ OffDeal - building the world's first AI-native investment bank

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Joined February 2021

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Ori Eldarov
@leveredvlad
Jul 29, 2025
Excited to share that @tryoffdeal has raised a $12M Series A to build the world’s first AI-native investment bank, less than 10 months after our Seed. This year we already launched over 30 M&A sell-sides, and delivered numerous multi-million $ exits to our clients. A quick 🧵
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Ori Eldarov
@leveredvlad
Jun 7, 2025
We do need a Cursor for Slides. No serious person in finance or consulting would use Gamma for any client deliverables.
Andrej Karpathy
@karpathy
Jun 6, 2025
Making slides manually feels especially painful now that you know Cursor for slides should exist but doesn’t.
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Ori Eldarov
@leveredvlad
Jun 3, 2025
Last year I raised $5M to build a brand new investment bank from scratch. Not software for banks or a fintech marketplace - a real M&A advisory firm. This is a very long post explaining what we're doing, why, and how it's going (sorry, I don't like threads). OffDeal: The First
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Ori Eldarov
@leveredvlad
Jul 29, 2025
Let's build the future of investment banking together.
Sujeet Indap
@sindap
Jul 29, 2025
NEW: At the firm that bills itself as the “first AI-native investment bank”, the MDs are 25 years old and in line for a $2mn bonus: on.ft.com/44SM1E0
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Ori Eldarov
@leveredvlad
Jul 30, 2025
Yesterday's @FinancialTimes article went super viral and we got flooded with questions about the $2M banker bonus. The math is pretty simple actually: > $5M EBITDA business sells for 6x > $30M EV -> $1.5M fee > $1.5M fee -> $300K bonus to banker And that's just one deal. If
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Ori Eldarov
@leveredvlad
May 29, 2025
Today we won our first proper bake off against 3 boutique M&A firms for a $2M EBITDA sell-side. The seller chose us despite us being <1 years old and having HIGHER fees than the rest. He said he really liked our young energy and speed (we delivered a full buyer list + comps
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Ori Eldarov
@leveredvlad
Feb 16, 2022
1/ @Stepnofficial: - new Move-2-Earn crypto fitness game - pays users $$$ for exercising - built on @solana & backed by @sequoia - absolutely exploding in popularity 🚀🚀🚀 In this essay I explain why I think it can become the next @AxieInfinity 🧵👇 fullydistributed.substack.com/p/stepn-crypto…
Ori Eldarov
@leveredvlad
Aug 5, 2025
It's kinda funny to see banks SCRAMBLING to retain talent. Just make the job more palatable for people christ. For people interested in investment banking without the bs / loyalty tests, we're hiring lots of bankers!
litquidity
@litcapital
Aug 5, 2025
Interesting to see the way IBs are combating PE recruiting. Basically if you recruit and disclose, you’ll be moved to a diff business segment. Kinda defeats the point of PE funds recruiting early and expecting analysts to gain deal experience. Still seems like the best move for
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Ori Eldarov
@leveredvlad
Jun 16, 2025
I did an MBA at Harvard to have work visa security while I work on my startup. I had a great time, but in practice MBA is more likely to convince someone NOT to be a founder, than the opposite - you're rubbing shoulders with very risk averse people. I have since also done YC,
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Ori Eldarov
@leveredvlad
May 5, 2022
1/ Last week @Stepnofficial exceeded 2M MAUs / 500k DAUs and became a top 50 project by market cap, flipping @AxieInfinity. So you want to get involved, but unsure how? Then this guide to the STEPNverse is for you! 🧵👇
Ori Eldarov
@leveredvlad
Aug 4, 2025
Had so much fun chatting with @andrewrsorkin @BeckyQuick and @JoeSquawk about the future of investment banking. The junior banker powerpoint grind is coming to an end.
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Ori Eldarov
@leveredvlad
May 28, 2025
🚨HIRING INVESTMENT BANKERS!!! $300-500K+ COMP🚨 We’re growing far faster than planned and need more 10× investment bankers to meet demand. Case study: Sam Mielke joined OffDeal four months ago. Today he’s running 8 exclusive sell-side mandates worth $3.8M in signed fees and
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Ori Eldarov
@leveredvlad
Oct 21, 2025
Been getting lots of messages on this morning. Some thoughts: Sam Altman has said this countless times - build with the assumption that the models will keep getting radically better. Spending months building scaffolding to patch current model limitations has been a losing bet
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Ori Eldarov
@leveredvlad
Jun 18, 2025
This is really cool and pretty impressive, but we still need a Cursor for "Corporate America" slides - you know, the ones that support like 80% of the world's GDP.
Tejas Gawande
@tejgw
Jun 18, 2025
"This is really Cursor for Slides. Everything else is a toy"
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