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Vivek Gopalan

Investor

Principal at 8VC

San Francisco, California

Writes $3M – $30M checks Β· 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.

Invests in

Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Experience

  1. 8VCHead of Post-Trainingcurrent2020 β€” present
  2. YugabyteSoftware Engineer2020
  3. Bloomberg LPSoftware Engineer2019New York
  4. Yale UniversitySummer Research Intern2018New Haven, Connecticut
  5. Transpo GroupEngineering Intern2016 β€” 2017

Education

  1. Yale UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
  2. Interlake High School

Skills & more

Physics1Computer Science1Project ManagementMicrosoft Office2PythonJavaC1Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)Leadership8Public Speaking5Management6Strategic Planning
+3 moreCritical ThinkingRacketHCDE

Languages English Β· Spanish Β· Tamil

  • IB Diploma β€” International Baccalaureate

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Investments

Investor

Yugabyte

Per the firm's website.

Colleagues at 8VC