# Mala Ramakrishnan

> 3x Founder, Managing Partner Progressive Ventures

Mala Ramakrishnan is the founder and managing partner of Progressive Ventures.

She is an entrepreneurial leader with 25 years experience in leadership roles in product, marketing, and engineering in companies of varied sizes: startups all the way to publicly traded companies. 

She is has been founder of three startups that have all successfully exit. 

Previously, she was head of consumer privacy for WhatsApp at Meta. Prior to that, at Cloudera, she headed product and marketing for Altus, a machine learning PaaS that commercialized Hadoop for data engineering and analytics databases. Mala has a dozen years experience in middleware technologies including spearheading the first cloud based robotic process automation (RPA) SaaS platform at Automation Anywhere.

Mala has outstanding ability at driving business strategy in establishing product-market fit of enterprise products. She has hands-on technical ability and is gifted in commercializing deep tech. 

Mala runs Founders Creative, a non profit that elevates under represented ideas, executives, and founders.

How Mala can help:
✔️ Fundraising from VCs
✔️ Tips on managing engineering and product
✔️ Validating product-market-fit
✔️ Building consumer engagement platforms
✔️ Go-to-market strategies
✔️ Improving customer retention
✔️ Leading product management teams
✔️ Advice on mergers and acquisitions

I am very passionate about sharing all of my learnings with others on similar journeys. Excited to connect!

**Rating:** 5/5 (5 reviews)

## Offerings

- Video call (15 min): $220.00

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