Vivan Agrawal is a co-founder of Zarna, a Y Combinator-backed company building AI associates for private equity and investment banking. His work focuses on applying AI agents to the operational demands of deal teams, including CRM management, sourcing, meeting preparation, and access to a firm’s institutional knowledge. Agrawal studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Materials Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His background includes a cybersecurity internship at EY and bioelectronics research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He co-founded Zarna with fellow Berkeley builders and participated in Y Combinator’s Fall 2025 batch. Through Zarna, he works on bringing AI into the tools investment professionals use each day, with an emphasis on firm-specific context and reliable execution.