Fireside with Edward Lando & Rohit Bhadange

​Edward Lando and Rohit Bhadange are returning to their alma mater for a fireside chat with Pareto Holdings.

​Join us in Huntsman Hall on September 9th, 2026 to hear about Edward and Rohit's journeys from building startups as Penn students to Edward founding Pareto Holdings and Rohit founding Zamp.

​Edward graduated from Wharton in 2014 and has been building companies since he was 18. While at Penn, he taught himself to build websites and apps, started multiple companies, and went through Y Combinator his senior year. Today, he is the founder of Pareto Holdings and has personally invested in 1,000+ startups, often as their earliest believer. Pareto has backed companies including Ramp, Mercury, Juicebox, Starcloud, Modern Treasury, and many more.

​Rohit graduated from Penn's M&T program in 2017. After working in finance for several years, he cofounded Zamp in 2022. The startup's algorithms and technology help automate sales tax calculations and tax compliance for small to medium-sized businesses. Zamp uses AI to power internal processes and improve the customer experience, but not to interpret tax law. It reached more than $5 million in annualized revenue in 2024 and has more than 400 customers across ecommerce, software-as-a-service, and AI companies.

​We'll talk about both their paths from Penn to startups and venture, why Pareto believes in backing exceptional people from day zero, what they look for in the people they back, and advice for students thinking about building something of their own.

​September 9th | Huntsman Hall