Vivek Ladsariya is a Managing Director at PSL and General Partner of PSL Ventures, where he leads pre-seed and seed investments out of the firm's $100 million Fund II, actively backing Pacific Northwest technology companies. The majority of the fund's portfolio consists of companies where PSL Ventures led an initial round within weeks of formation, and roughly half of all PSL investments are AI-enabled software companies.

Vivek focuses on deeply technical investment themes including AI, cybersecurity, infrastructure, industrial tech, and devops. As a recovering founder, he is passionate about partnering with founders building category-defining companies.

Prior to PSL, Vivek was a General Partner at SineWave Ventures in San Francisco, where his participation in investments included Rescale, Evolv Technologies (NASDAQ: EVLV), Anjuna, DBOS, JUMP, and Paperspace. Prior to SineWave, Vivek also invested in Databricks and Tamr while he was at Fenox.

Prior to venture, Vivek was a multi-time founder, having started GameGarage and Moyyer Secondary Markets.

Vivek graduated from the University of Mumbai with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and from Yale School of Management with an MBA with honors. He serves on the advisory board of the International Center for Finance at Yale, was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and was honored as Alumnus of the Year at the University of Mumbai in 2018.

Outside of work, Vivek is a passionate cook who enjoys finding and cooking food with his wife, Talia.