# Vivek Ramaswami

> Vivek Ramaswami is a Series A investor at Steadfast Capital Management backing Cyber Security. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Steadfast Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steadfast-venture-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekramaswami
- Website: https://x.com/vivekramaswami

Vivek Ramaswami is a Series A investor at Steadfast Capital Management in San Francisco focused on Cyber Security and Developer Tools. Vivek focuses on early-growth investment opportunities. Prior to joining Redpoint, Vivek was in the technology, media and telecommunications investment-banking division of Goldman Sachs, where he focused on large-scale enterprise, storage, and SaaS businesses. He helped advise a number of clients on mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, and equityand debt financings. At Goldman Sachs, Vivek worked with companies such as Hewlett-Packard, NetApp, Tableau Software, RingCentral, InfoBlox, SanDisk, and others. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.Vivek is an avid runner, novice backpacker, and a proud Canadian.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cyber Security | 1 | 100% |
| Developer Tools | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gray Swan | Gray Swan AI is an AI security company that develops tools for evaluating and protecting large language model deployments. Its platform focuses on identifying vulnerabilities such as jailbreaks, prompt injections, harmful outputs, and other adversarial attacks that can affect AI systems in production. The company offers products including Shade, anautomated red-teaming and vulnerability assessment tool, and Cygnal, a runtime protection layer that monitors and filters AI interactions in real time. Gray Swan’s technology is designed to work with multiple AI providers and is used to test the security and reliability of AI applications, agents, and workflows. The company also operates adversarial testing programs and collaborates with AI researchers and enterprises to study emerging threats and improve AI safety practices. | $40M | Series A | May 28, 2026 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hudson River Trading](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hudson-river-trading) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Magarac Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/magarac-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Obvious Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/obvious-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Samsung NEXT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samsungnext) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Snowflake Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/snowflake-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Wing Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wing-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Steadfast Capital Management

VC Fund · New York, United States

Steadfast is an investment firm that invests in both public and private markets. It specializes in the fields of venture capital, financial services, and finance.

1 contacts available at Steadfast Capital Management.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vivek Ramaswami | Venture Capitalist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vivek-ramaswami |

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## FAQ

### What does Vivek Ramaswami invest in?

Vivek Ramaswami invests primarily in Cyber Security, Developer Tools and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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