About us — Mirza

Your partners in creating change

We’re financial analysts, tech specialists, big thinkers, working parents and so much more. But above all, we’re experts in financial and professional empowerment.

We passionately believe that when caregivers – especially women – are empowered, the family, the economy and society also benefits.

Our Mission and Vision

We’re on a mission to build a world in which caregivers no longer have to choose between supporting their loved ones and their own financial health.

Ultimately, our vision is to create the financial infrastructure for the care economy that recognizes and supports caregiving work as the deeply valuable, meaningful and human work it is.

Meet the founders

Hello, World!

Mel Faxon

COO & CO-FOUNDER

Mel is the Co-founder/COO of Mirza. After graduating from UVA, Mel launched a career focused on building fast growth companies. From launching and scaling sales territories in Europe, to making college education more accessible, to managing a luxury real estate portfolio, Mel fell in love with the process of building a concept from the ground up. A lifelong ideator, Mel had launched side hustles and passion projects while working, but it was during her time at London Business School that she realized she wanted to go all in on her own business. Mirza is her second company and is the manifestation of her passion for equitable access for all women and the desire to operate in the social impact space.

Siran Cao

CEO & CO-FOUNDER

Siran is the Co-founder/CEO of Mirza. She firmly believes in the potential in business to be a force for good, and with the right match for bottom line and positive social impact, to plant the seeds for structural change. Siran graduated with a degree in Gender Studies from Harvard and had expected to go into academia or nonprofit, but what started as a short skills pursuit in the private sector turned into a passion for leadership, management, and operations. Siran built the driver support organization for Uber in New York and oversaw the support business for the US Northeast, before moving to London for a degree in Social Business & Entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics. With Mirza, she’s gone full circle and looks forward to bringing together her passions: women’s empowerment, structural change, and building a company of the future.

Why the name Mirza?

Mirza was founded on the belief that no one should be limited in their ambitions or career. It was only fitting to name ourselves after the brilliant Maryam Mirzakhani, a mother, wife and a trailblazing academic in a male-dominated field. Maryam shattered glass ceilings and inspired a world of possibility. She represents what we strive for at Mirza.