Geoff Entress is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He was formerly a venture partner with Voyager Capital and Madrona Venture Group. Prior to PSL, Geoff was the most active angel investor in the region and has invested in over 200 private Pacific Northwest companies during the last two decades.

Geoff represents PSL on the Board of Directors for JetClosing. He is also a current investor in over eighty private companies in the region and is a board member of Hiya, Meritage Soups, Bonanza, Foodee and LiquidPlanner.

A former securities lawyer and financial analyst, he has also held positions at Perkins Coie, Jones Day, UrbanEarth.com, Salomon Brothers, The Prudential Home Mortgage Company, Mellon Bank, Priority Investment Management and Duquesne Capital Management. Geoff is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Notre Dame.

Sudip joined Madrona in 2018. Sudip is particularly interested in companies that are transforming the enterprise, cloud and infrastructure markets. He especially enjoys working with technical founders – sharing his own experiences as a technical founder and helping them to build successful teams and businesses.

Past Lives

Prior to joining Madrona, Sudip was a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners where he led or co-led investments in Streamlio, Serverless, Rainnet, Exabeam and, a Madrona portfolio company, Heptio. He started his investing career at Osage University Partners and subsequently was an enterprise investor at Andreessen Horowitz where he was involved with companies such as Actifio, Databricks, Digital Ocean, Forward Networks, Mesosphere and Samsara.

Before venturing into early-stage investing, Sudip was an entrepreneur and an engineer. He started his first company when he was at Georgia Tech, and his second while in business school. In between, he spent a few years as an engineer building complex software systems at Synopsys.

This experience of founding enterprise technology-oriented businesses led Sudip to the venture side and he has been investing in enterprise and open source software companies since that time. His founder experience gives him direct insight into the challenges of startups which involve ups and downs and persistence. He strives to be a trusted partner to every entrepreneur he works with.

Education

Sudip received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B. Tech from IIT Kharagpur.

Andrew Klein has been working with startups and emerging growth companies for over 12 years as a founder and as an outside advisor for both the entrepreneurial team and their investors.  In this capacity he has managed the strategic operations, company exits, and funding of companies in a variety of industries with specific expertise in SaaS, Healthcare, Hospitality & Consumer Products, and Energy/Construction.  Companies with Andrew's direct involvement have raised almost $70 million in debt and equity. He also has a strong passion for entrepreneurship and connecting people together as shown in his involvement as a TechStars Alumni, mentor at 9Mile Labs Accelerator, a teacher at General Assembly, and in running the meetup group Cigars & Startups.  He holds a BS in accounting and an MBA focused on entrepreneurial finance both from Seattle University.

Palvi Mehta is the CFO and Operating Partner for PSL and leads finance and operations.  She loves partnering with entrepreneurs to help bring their dreams to reality.

Prior to PSL, Palvi was the CFO at ExtraHop Networks. A veteran of the tech startup community, Palvi has also been the CFO of NewPath Networks, and RadioFrame Networks.  During her career, she has raised hundreds of millions of dollars across both the equity and debt markets and has successfully completed multiple exits. She began her career as a CPA and an auditor at Ernst & Young.

Palvi is a strong supporter of women in tech and is passionate about providing the opportunity for CS education to women and underrepresented minorities.  She serves as a board member of Code.org.  She also is on the board of Aeluma, Inc.

Palvi graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in business, with an emphasis in finance and accounting.

Brenton Twitchell partners with growing technology and services businesses to proactively and thoughtfully guide them through the legal aspects of achieving their business objectives. A partner of Miller Nash LLP, Brenton routinely assists owners and management in: (i) navigating complex mergers and acquisitions; (ii) creating and structuring legal entities and businesses.; (ii) raising capital through private securities offerings; (iii) forming strategic alliances; (iv) managing vendor, supplier, and contractor relationships; (v) complying with fiduciary and governance obligations; and (vi) planning around incentivizing employees and issues related to succession. Before private practice, Brenton served as a law clerk to Justice James M. Johnson of the Washington State Supreme Court and was a project supervisor at a class action administrator. Brenton received his J.D. from the University of Arizona, summa cum laude.

Danielle Hunt, a partner of Miller Nash LLP, assists clients throughout the Pacific Northwest to meet their corporate, transactional, and regulatory compliance needs. Danielle has comprehensive experience as a general business and transactional attorney with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, business formation, and corporate governance for profit and nonprofit clients. She also advises clients in highly regulated industries, including cannabis, alcoholic beverages, health care, and financial institutions. Additionally, Danielle serves as outside legal counsel to some of the region’s major financial institutions in the area of vendor management, including vendor contract review and negotiation. Danielle received her J.D. from the Seattle University School of Law and her B.A. from the University of Montana.

Madhu K. Singh is the founder and chief legal officer at Foundry Law Group. Madhu and the President at TiE Seattle.  Madhu and her team enjoy serving as trusted counsel to startups and emerging companies, support corporate governance and acquisitions, and advise on protecting and leverage their proprietary assets. Madhu believes in building strong relationships with her clients as a resource and active within the local business community. She volunteers regularly with Wayfind Legal by speaking at CLEs, providing pro bono legal support, and supervising a cohort of attorneys new to advising nonprofits. She received the 2018 Volunteer of the year award by this prestigious organization. In 2014 she was named the Woman Business Owner of the year by the Small Business Administration and has been named a 'rising star' by Super lawyers for the past five years. In addition to her practice, she is in her eighth year as an Adjunct Faculty at the Community Development and Entrepreneurship Clinic at Seattle University School of Law. She holds a JD and MBA from the University of Kansas.

Henry is a Partner at Seattle startup studio Madrona Venture Labs where he focuses on creating enterprise B2B startups. A few of the Madrona-backed companies he has launched over the past four years include Strike Graph, Stratify, Pendulum, and Magnify. Prior to incubating and investing, Henry was an executive product leader, startup veteran, and founder with six successful early-stage companies under his belt.

Avni is the founder and CEO of Modern Village. She is a third time founder building technology solutions for today’s parents. Her previous company Poppy (YC W16) helped connect parents to vetted caregivers when they had gaps in childcare. Prior to taking the entrepreneurial plunge, she spent over a decade building big consumer businesses at P&G, adidas and Starbucks. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSc Chemistry from the University of British Columbia. She lives in Vancouver, Canada with her husband and 2 little girls.