Vivek Ramaswami

Vivek Ramaswami is a Partner at Madrona Ventures based in Palo Alto, California. Before joining the firm in 2022, he spent five years as a Principal at Redpoint and subsequently helped launch the venture capital division at Steadfast Capital. He began his professional career in technology investment banking at Goldman Sachs, where he advised on mergers, acquisitions, and initial public offerings across the software and consumer internet sectors. His extensive investment portfolio features numerous prominent technology companies, including prior and current backing of Zapier, Klaviyo, Hashicorp, SentinelOne, and Deepgram. Alongside his core investment activities, he co-authors a biweekly artificial intelligence and technology newsletter that reaches an audience of over 3,000 subscribers. Ramaswami currently focuses on providing capital and operational guidance to founders who have achieved product-market fit while scaling enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, and financial technology platforms.