Vivek Sodera
Founder of Superhuman
Austin, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & General Partner
2024 - Current
First check / pre-seed fund, investing in enterprise AI, productivity, & devtools: • Writer: Enterprise-grade fullstack gen AI | Series C (SPV) • Layers: Marketing platform for AI developers | Pre-Seed • Orbit: Foundational AI infrastructure for brain activity | Pre-Seed • Sidecar Data: AI-powered data ops platform | Pre-Seed • Ambient: AI-powered system of record for the CEO | Pre-Seed • Matterfact: Financial intelligence platform for public market investors | First Check • Parable: Foundational layer for enterprise efficiency | First Check • Deeptrail: Open-core security for AI apps & agents | First Check
Co-Founder
2015
Most productive email experience | Series C ($825M val) | Investors: IVP, a16z, Tiger, First Round
Superhuman is a software platform that weaves social insights into a workflow.
Raised $108,000,000.00 from Drew Houston, Will Smith, Tiger Global Management, Jason Citron, Arianna Huffington, The Chainsmokers, Ashton Kutcher, Henrique Dubugras, Timothy Young and IVP.
Limited Partner
2023
• HF0 Residency: Most selective AI residency in the world • Forward Deployed Capital: Mission-critical defense, energy, industrials, and AI focused • The House Fund: AI accelerator backed by OpenAI, Microsoft, and Berkeley AI Research (BAIR)
Angel Investor
2020 - 2024
Investor in 20+ enterprise AI, productivity, devtool startups at pre-seed / seed, including: • Writer: Enterprise-grade fullstack gen AI | Series C ($1.9B val) backed by ICONIQ, WndrCo • Zed Industries: World's best code editor (open-source, AI-powered) | Series B backed by Sequoia • Cinder: Supercharging trust and safety operations | Series A backed by Accel • Framework: Next-gen, modular computing | Series A backed by Spark Capital • Texts.com (Beeper): All non-email messaging in one app | Acquired by Automattic • Cohere: AI-powered customer support | Acquired by Ramp • 14.ai: Customer support for 1000x teams | YC-backed • Readwise (Reader): Productivity software for power readers
Co-Founder
2006 - 2018
Publicly traded: Oct 2018 (NYSE: RAMP)
LiveRamp aspires to make it safe and easy for companies to use data effectively.
Raised $16,000,000.00 from Rembrandt Venture Partners, yet2Ventures and DNX Ventures.
Co-Founder & CEO
2012 - 2015
Devtools powering SSO + analytics | Failed to reach product-market fit
Education
B.S.
2001 - 2006