About Mazlo

Mazlo is the financial operating platform built exclusively for nonprofits and fiscal sponsors — automating accounting, banking, compliance, donation tracking, and spending workflows so mission-driven organizations can focus on impact, not spreadsheets.

Mazlo SaaS Platform — Financial OS for Nonprofits

Our Product

What We Built

Mazlo is a purpose-built SaaS platform designed from the ground up for the unique financial realities of nonprofits, fiscal sponsors, and community foundations. Unlike generic accounting software or consumer banking apps adapted for organizational use, Mazlo treats fund accounting, grant compliance, and multi-project oversight as first-class features — not workarounds.

Multi-Project Management

Run dozens of fiscally sponsored projects or restricted fund programs under one platform. Each project gets its own sub-ledger, bank sub-account, and reporting dashboard — managed centrally by your finance team with complete segregation.

Automated Reconciliation

Mazlo's real-time bank integration engine matches transactions automatically, eliminating hours of manual reconciliation every month. When exceptions arise, they're surfaced immediately — not discovered at audit time.

Grant-Ready Reporting

Generate funder-ready financial reports, budget vs. actuals, and compliance documentation in minutes — not days. Mazlo's reporting layer is built around the reporting requirements that nonprofits and fiscal sponsors actually face.

Mazlo serves nonprofits, fiscal sponsors, and community foundations of every size — from lean two-person teams managing their first restricted grant to established organizations overseeing hundreds of projects and millions of dollars in annual throughput.

The platform integrates accounting, banking, compliance tracking, donation management, and team spending controls into a single, unified workspace. The result is a finance team that spends its time on analysis and strategy rather than data entry and manual reconciliation.

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Our Story

Mazlo was incorporated on February 6, 2022, in San Francisco, California — founded with a singular conviction: build a SaaS platform that gives nonprofits and fiscal sponsors the financial infrastructure they deserve, as powerful as any for-profit company, without the complexity, cost, or compromise. The company emerged from firsthand observation of the financial operating challenges faced by nonprofit organizations: fragmented systems, manual reconciliation, compliance anxiety, and spending opacity that collectively consume thousands of staff hours every year and divert precious capacity away from mission delivery.

The reality confronting most nonprofit finance teams is stark. Accounting software designed for small businesses cannot handle fund accounting. Banking products designed for individuals cannot support multi-project sub-accounts. Compliance reporting requires manual assembly from disconnected sources. The result is a sector-wide patchwork of spreadsheets, disconnected bank accounts, and outdated software that creates unnecessary risk while wasting organizational capacity that should be directed toward impact.

Our founder, Kian Alavi, spent years working at the intersection of fintech and the social sector before identifying the core problem. He worked closely with fiscal sponsors, community development financial institutions, and nonprofit financial consultancies across the United States, developing hands-on insight into the real-world constraints that drive nonprofit finance teams toward inefficient workarounds. What he found was consistent: the sector lacked a purpose-built financial operating system that understood fund accounting, grant management, and fiscal sponsorship as native architectural requirements — not afterthoughts bolted onto tools designed for a different context entirely.

Mazlo was built to change that. From the first line of code, every product decision has been guided by a single question: does this make life meaningfully easier for nonprofit finance teams and the mission-driven communities that depend on them? That question continues to drive our roadmap, our support philosophy, and the way we build relationships with every organization we serve.

Our Purpose

Mission and Vision

Mission

To give every nonprofit and fiscal sponsor the financial operating system they need to maximize their impact. We believe that excellent financial infrastructure is not a luxury reserved for large organizations with dedicated finance teams. It is a fundamental enabler of mission effectiveness for organizations of every size.

Vision

A world in which every nonprofit and fiscal sponsor operates with the same financial clarity, efficiency, and confidence as the best-run organizations in any sector. Where finance teams spend their time on strategic analysis rather than data entry, and where organizational leaders can make high-quality decisions backed by real-time financial insight.

What Guides Us

Our Values

These principles shape how we build Mazlo, how we serve our customers, and how we operate as an organization committed to the long-term health of the nonprofit sector.

Transparency

We believe financial clarity is a precondition for organizational health. We build tools that make the financial picture undeniable for our customers' stakeholders, and we operate Mazlo with the same radical transparency we hold ourselves to in every interaction.

Simplicity

Nonprofit finance is inherently complex. Our job is to absorb that complexity inside the platform so the humans using Mazlo never have to encounter it. We obsess over reducing friction at every touchpoint in the product experience, relentlessly.

Mission Alignment

Every feature we build is evaluated through the lens of what it means for organizations changing the world. We exist to serve mission-driven people, and that responsibility shapes every product decision, partnership, and strategic choice we make.

Earned Trust

We are stewards of our customers' most sensitive financial data. We earn trust through security, reliability, and consistent follow-through. SOC 2 Type II certification is a floor, not a ceiling, for how we approach data security, privacy, and organizational integrity.

Leadership

Our Team

Mazlo is led by a team of experienced professionals who combine deep nonprofit sector expertise with world-class financial technology backgrounds.

Kian Alavi

CEO & Co-Founder

Kian Alavi is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mazlo, where he leads product vision, company strategy, and partnerships across the nonprofit and fintech ecosystems. Kian brings deep expertise at the intersection of financial technology and social-sector operations, having spent much of his career studying the systemic financial gaps that leave nonprofits underserved by mainstream tooling.

Prior to founding Mazlo, Kian worked extensively with fiscal sponsors, community development financial institutions, and nonprofit financial consultancies across the United States. This immersive experience — sitting alongside finance directors as they wrestled with spreadsheet reconciliations, grant compliance chaos, and opaque bank feeds — became the foundation for Mazlo's product architecture and go-to-market approach.

Kian is a recognized voice in the nonprofit technology community, speaking regularly on the future of mission-driven finance. He is based in San Francisco, CA, and holds a deep conviction that doing good and operating with organizational excellence are not in conflict — they are mutually reinforcing.

Marcus Webb

Chief Technology Officer

Marcus leads Mazlo's engineering organization and technology strategy. He brings 15 years of fintech infrastructure experience, previously serving as VP of Engineering at a leading payment processing platform. Marcus is the architect behind Mazlo's real-time accounting engine and bank integration layer, which processes millions of transactions monthly with 99.9% uptime.

Priya Sharma

Chief Financial Officer

Priya oversees Mazlo's financial operations, investor relations, and growth strategy. She previously served as CFO of a Series B SaaS company and spent six years as a partner at a financial advisory firm serving nonprofits and foundations. Her firsthand experience managing nonprofit finances gives her unique insight into the problems Mazlo was built to solve.

Elena Torres

Head of Product

Elena leads product design and customer experience at Mazlo. With a background in nonprofit operations and UX design, she translates the complex requirements of nonprofit finance into the clean, intuitive workflows that define the Mazlo experience. She partners closely with customer success and engineering to ensure every feature ships with deep sector relevance and usability at its core.

Funding and Investors

Backed by Mission-Aligned Capital

In 2025, Mazlo raised a Seed round led by Westbound Equity Partners (formerly Concrete Rose Capital), a venture capital firm focused on backing founders building transformative companies for underserved communities and sectors. Their support reflects deep conviction in Mazlo's mission and the significant opportunity to modernize financial infrastructure for nonprofits across the country. The investment enables Mazlo to accelerate product development, expand its customer success team, and extend its reach to underserved nonprofit communities nationwide.

Seed Round, 2025

Westbound Equity Partners

formerly Concrete Rose Capital

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We are growing a team and a community of people who believe in financial equity for the social sector. Whether you are exploring Mazlo as a potential customer, partner, or team member, we would love to hear from you.

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