Operators, lawyers, and people who have been there.

Jonathan leads Graveyard.vc's wind-down practice and runs financial strategy across the broader Trademarkia platform. He came up through management consulting and corporate finance — with roles at AB InBev and Walmart Massmart — building multi-entity operations across multiple jurisdictions and managing the kind of cross-border restructuring most ABC practitioners avoid.

For Graveyard.vc, that translates directly into cap-table modeling, liquidation-preference scenarios, and recovery forecasts that founders and lead investors can actually trust before the board vote. Jonathan structures every wind-down so that distributable proceeds — not assignee fees — drive the sequence of decisions. He owns the Triage AI memo: the one-business-day diagnostic that places each engagement in the appropriate tier.

His academic record is unusual for the practice. He holds an MBA from GIBS in Entrepreneurship & Corporate Finance, is a CFA charterholder, is completing an MSc in Finance at Fordham (Gabelli), and will begin doctoral studies at the University of Edinburgh Business School this year. The combination — operating background plus rigorous financial credential plus active academic engagement — is what lets the firm publish modeling that lead investors and counsel actually defer to.

Before any of the rest, Raj grew up in a family retail business in Phoenix. He finished college and went on to law school only after that business wound down — the experience that put him on the path to becoming an attorney in the first place, and the personal foundation of why Graveyard.vc exists at all. He has launched dozens of companies since, knows the rush when one takes off and the sadness when one doesn't, and built this practice around the conviction that founders facing a wind-down deserve someone who has lived both sides of it.

Professionally, he founded Graveyard.vc to address the same structural failure he had watched up close for two decades from the practitioner's side: venture-backed companies running out of runway, then losing another third of what was left to a legacy assignee that had no real plan for the patents and trademarks on the table — and no operating discipline to compress the time to close.

He is the inventor of Nextdoor.com, Founding CEO of its predecessor company, which he led from inception through Series B prior to its exit to Google. He is the founder of Trademarkia.com, which he scaled self-funded to $13M ARR, 125,000+ clients across 80+ countries, and 1M+ organic monthly visitors — making it the largest brand-protection registry in the United States and the source of the buyer-graph data that powers Graveyard.vc's IP-monetization workstream.

Raj served five years as outside patent counsel to NVIDIA, authoring 100+ U.S. and international applications across AI, GPU architecture, and gaming. Patents he has written or invented have been licensed or sold for over $1 billion — a record that's relevant to wind-down practice precisely when the IP is the highest-value asset on the balance sheet.

A first-chair federal litigator with 40+ cases, Raj also runs the 50-attorney LegalForce RAPC operating firm, serves as founder of PatentVC, and is licensed by the California State Bar and the USPTO. The infrastructure differential — Trademarkia's brand-protection network, PatentVC's federal-litigation team, LegalForce's attorney bench — is what makes the Graveyard.vc engagement materially different from a standalone wind-down practice.