Vishal Arora is the founder and managing partner of PanCosmic Capital.

A seasoned venture capitalist, Vishal was previously an investor at Blumberg Capital, a San Francisco based early-stage VC, where he invested in and worked closely with early-stage technology startups such as Workjam (Raised $60M Series C), Biocatch (Raised $165M Series C), Doubleverify ($4.2B IPO) and Braze ($8B IPO). 

Prior to Blumberg Capital, he was at Salesforce’s Corporate Development team where his investments included Apttus (~$2B acq. by Thoma Bravo), Mulesoft ($6.5B acq. by Salesforce), Steelbrick ($365M acq. by Salesforce) and Vlocity ($1.3B acq. by Salesforce). 

In his previous life, Vishal was part of Technology investment banking team at Goldman Sachs working closely with Technology clients on strategic transactions and was involved in the Uber investment at the Series B stage while it was still an upcoming Silicon Valley based startup. 

In his free time, Vishal likes to spend time with loved ones, read on topics such as psychology, history, spirituality, business/tech/finance, play tennis and sweat it out in the gym. He believes that free entrepreneurial spirit in technology holds the key in dissipating obsolete boundaries that can unlock the next phase of planetary evolution.