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Vivek Ladsariya
Managing Director at Pioneer Square Labs
Seattle, Washington
Overview
Vivek Ladsariya is the Managing Director at Pioneer Square Labs in Seattle, Washington, with a background in start-ups, venture capital, and strategic planning. He has made significant investments in companies like Fluree and AON3D, showcasing his expertise in Series A funding and his focus on sectors such as Robotics and Digital Health.
With an MBA from Yale School of Management and experience as a General Partner at SineWave Ventures, Vivek has a strong track record in entrepreneurship and investments, highlighted by his roles as a Co-Founder at Moyyer Research and GameGarage.in.
Work Experience
Managing Director
2024 - Current
PSL Ventures is an venture fund that focuses on technology-driven companies.
General Partner
2017 - 2024
Investing in innovators Portfolio companies: Jump Bikes, Databricks, Rescale, Sentinel One, Paperspace, Evolv Technologies, ShiftLeft, Veriflow, Tamr, Upskill
SineWave Ventures provides early-stage investment capital to technology companies across commercial and public sectors.
Creator
2020 - 2021
Partner
2017 - 2017
I invest in AI, healthcare, robotics, and hardware product companies across the world. I work alongside entrepreneurs in product development and market expansion strategies, including support in developing enterprise partnerships. AI Investments: Affectiva (lead), Osaro (lead), MindMeld, Deepgram, Nova Healthcare Investments: Sense.ly, Scanadu, Sano, Lark, AnalyticsMD, Multiply Labs, Ex Vivo Labs IoT and Hardware Investments: Jibo (lead), Afero (lead), Edyn (lead), Meta, Ossia, Bluesmart, Rigetti Fintech Investments: Blockstream, Blockcypher
Head of Investments
2014 - 2017
Fenox Venture Capital is an early stage investor, headquartered in Silicon Valley with presence in Japan, Singapore, Indonesia and Bangladesh. Vivek leads the analysis and execution of investments in digital health, big data, IT, IoT, and marketplaces mainly in the US, Singapore, Indonesia and Bangladesh. He works alongside entrepreneurs in product development, enterprise partnership, M&A exit, and entering international markets such as the US, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia and India. Exited investments: SoundTracking (acquired by Rhapsody) Socialize (social media analytics acquired by ShareThis) DLE (IPO in Tokyo MTH:3686) Metaps (IPO in Tokyo MTH:6172) bop.FM (acquired by LifeLock) Healthtech investments: Scanadu, Sense.ly, TrueVault, AnalyticsMD, Medikly, Lark IoT & Hardware investments: Jibo, BlueSmart, Meta, Edyn, Terra Motors, gTar, Afero, Rigetti Enterprise technology investments: Jetlore, Bottlenose, Roximity, BlockCypher, mNectar, Metaps, Zuu Online, Kii, NextCaller, PeopleGraph.io Consumer investments: Gobble, Expect Labs, PandaWhale, Sidecar, Memebox, Genius, ThirdLove, Women.com Southeast Asia Portfolio Companies: Tech In Asia, Pomelo, Hijup, 99.co, Alodokter, BrideStory, iMoney, JFDI, Talenta
Fenox Vehicle Company is a vehicle renting firm that offers cars and limousines for rent for long and short terms with or without drivers.
Co-Founder
2011 - 2013
Moyyer provided market research, due-diligence and valuation support to investors in early stage start-ups.
Co-founder
2009 - 2011
GameGarage.in provides gaming equipment for rent