# Laduram Vishnoi

> Laduram Vishnoi is a San Francisco-based entrepreneur, engineer, angel investor and advisor. He co-founded customer engagement company Acquire and now serves as founder and CEO of Middleware, a cloud observability platform. His earlier business was the London development agency Just Total Tech.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Middleware
- **Organizations:** Middleware, Acquire, Just Total Tech
- **From:** Jodhpur, India
- **Education:** BSc in Computer Science, Staffordshire University, Y Combinator
- **Known for:** Co-founded Acquire and, in his YC biography, reports growing it to 200 people and raising $57 million through Series B., Founded Middleware, a YC Winter 2023 company., Middleware announced $6.5 million in seed funding led by 8VC in August 2023.

## Career timeline

- **2010-2016** — Founded and ran London-based web and mobile development agency Just Total Tech, according to his personal company history.
- **2015-2016** — Started Acquire in London; his interview dates its beginnings to 2015, while Acquire dates its official launch as Tagove to 2016.
- **2016** — Moved from London to San Francisco.
- **2020** — Acquire announced a $6.4 million Series A led by Base10 Partners.
- **2021** — Acquire raised a $45 million Series B; Vishnoi subsequently handed day-to-day leadership to co-founder Amrit Dhangal and became president.
- **2022** — Founded Middleware; its launch announcement dates founding to September.
- **2023** — Middleware joined YC Winter 2023, publicly launched in February and announced a $6.5 million seed round in August.
- **2026** — Continues leading Middleware, with a public focus on AI-assisted incident investigation and remediation.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Acquire and, in his YC biography, reports growing it to 200 people and raising $57 million through Series B.
- Founded Middleware, a YC Winter 2023 company.
- Middleware announced $6.5 million in seed funding led by 8VC in August 2023.
- His personal website lists investments in more than 30 companies.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Discussed AI-assisted observability and autonomous remediation with Paul Nashawaty on AppDevANGLE; the accompanying feature was published May 6, 2026.

## Links

- Website: https://laduram.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laduramvishnoi/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/laduramvishnoi
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laduramvishnoi/

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Last updated: 2026-10-14