Where does Vivek Gopalan work?

Vivek Gopalan is Principal at 8VC.

What does Vivek Gopalan invest in?

Vivek Gopalan invests in Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, SaaS.

What check size does Vivek Gopalan write?

Vivek Gopalan typically writes checks of $3M – $30M.

What companies has Vivek Gopalan invested in?

Investments tracked here include Yugabyte.

Where did Vivek Gopalan go to school?

Vivek Gopalan studied at Yale University (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science); Interlake High School.

Vivek Gopalan

Investor

Principal at 8VC

San Francisco, California

Writes $3M – $30M checks · typically $16.5M

About

Vivek Gopalan is on 8VC's investment team, focusing on data & software infrastructure and horizontal B2B SaaS, and also works on the Build program incubating companies. He previously was a software engineer on the core database group at Yugabyte and worked on ML pipelines at Bloomberg, and studied Computer Science and Statistics & Data Science at Yale.

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Invests in

Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Experience

8VCHead of Post-Trainingcurrent2020 — present
YugabyteSoftware Engineer2020
Bloomberg LPSoftware Engineer2019New York
Yale UniversitySummer Research Intern2018New Haven, Connecticut
Transpo GroupEngineering Intern2016 — 2017

Skills & more

Physics1Computer Science1Project ManagementMicrosoft Office2PythonJavaC1Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)Leadership8Public Speaking5Management6Strategic Planning

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Critical ThinkingRacketHCDE

Languages English · Spanish · Tamil

IB Diploma — International Baccalaureate

From Vivek's professional profile.

Investments

Investor

Yugabyte

Per the firm's website.

Colleagues at 8VC

Adrienne Alexander

Operations at 8VC

Alex Kolicich

Investment Team at 8VC

Alex McLane

Investment Team at 8VC

Alex Moore

Investment Team at 8VC

Portfolio Support at 8VC

Ava Eitzen

Portfolio Support at 8VC

Frequently asked questions

Who is Vivek Gopalan?: Vivek Gopalan is on 8VC's investment team, focusing on data & software infrastructure and horizontal B2B SaaS, and also works on the Build program incubating companies. He previously was a software engineer on the core database group at Yugabyte and worked on ML pipelines at Bloomberg, and studied Computer Science and Statistics & Data Science at Yale.
Where does Vivek Gopalan work?: Vivek Gopalan is Principal at 8VC.
What does Vivek Gopalan invest in?: Vivek Gopalan invests in Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
What check size does Vivek Gopalan write?: Vivek Gopalan typically writes checks of $3M – $30M.
What companies has Vivek Gopalan invested in?: Investments tracked here include Yugabyte.
Where did Vivek Gopalan go to school?: Vivek Gopalan studied at Yale University (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science); Interlake High School.