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Vivek Ramaswami

Partner at Madrona

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Vivek Ramaswami is a Partner at Madrona, with a background in capital markets and investment banking. He has held key roles at STEADFAST Capital Ventures and Redpoint Ventures, bringing expertise in financial modeling, valuation, and investment analysis to the firms he has worked with.

Work Experience 

  • Board

    2025 - Current

  • Partner

    2022

  • Board Member

    2024

  • Board

    2024

Read AI is a productivity AI company that enhances workflows with meeting analytics, scheduling, and summaries across messages and email.

Raised $81,000,000.00 from Smash Capital, Madrona and Goodwater Capital.

  • Board

    2024

Security and observability for containers and Kubernetes

Raised $53,000,000.00 from Insight Partners, Madrona, CSC Upshot, New Enterprise Associates and Wing Venture Capital.

  • Partner

    2020 - 2022

    Launched the venture capital arm of a ~$10B AUM hedge fund. Investments included: Klaviyo (KVYO), Marqeta (MQ), Zapier, Cohesity, Lucid, Outreach, Forethought, Sendbird, Wealthsimple, Algolia, Sourcegraph, Primer, Jumpcloud, Pipefy, BharatPe, CRED, Groww, Auth0 (acquired by Okta),

  • Principal

    2015 - 2020

    Focused on early-growth (Series B-D) investments across enterprise software, infrastructure, FinTech and healthcare technology. Partnered with great companies like SentinelOne (NYSE: S), Bright Health (NYSE: BHG), Nubank (NYSE: NU), Justworks, Next Insurance, and BioAge.

Redpoint partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones at the seed, early, and growth stages.

  • Analyst

    2013 - 2015

    TMT Investment Banking

Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.

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