Mala Ramakrishnan is the Founder & Managing Partner at Progressive Ventures, a seed-stage VC firm investing in B2B AI startups. A three-time founder with exits, she brings 20+ years of experience in product, engineering, and marketing, and holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford. She’s held leadership roles at WhatsApp (Meta), Cloudera, and Automation Anywhere. Driven by her own journey, she built Progressive Ventures to back bold, early-stage founders. Mala also co-founded Founders Creative to support underrepresented technologists and is active in AI and women-in-tech spaces.