Bhaskar Ghosh
Partner and CTO at 8VC
Bhaskar Ghosh
Partner and CTO at 8VC
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Investor and Board member
2020 - Current
Proud to be supporting a once-in-a-lifetime team with Pankaj Patel and John Chambers reimagining enterprise networking. See the 8VC blog post: https://www.8vc.com/resources/a-song-of-speed-and-uptime-announcing-the-nile-8vc-partnership
Nile provides secure connectivity and network independence through a fully automated, wired and wireless LAN deployed entirely as a service
Raised $300,000,000.00 from Liberty Global Ventures, STC Ventures, Sanabil, March Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Aramco Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures, Geodesic Capital, 8VC and U First Capital.
Member of various boards
2021
(Member of the Board) Yale Graduate School AA and Yale Roberts Innovation Fund https://gsas.yale.edu/2021-22-yale-gsaa-board https://news.yale.edu/2022/05/16/new-seas-fund-will-help-nurture-yale-borne-ideas-benefit-humankind
Investor
2021
Application developers matter! Seaplane IO is bringing applications and data services within 10 milliseconds of every end user on the planet. They are an application platform for developers that continually optimizes deployment and delivery in a user-centric manner while maintaining performance and resilience. Excited to work with the Seaplane team, Bill Coughran of Sequoia Capital and Brian Long of Atlantic Bridge in this journey
Lead Investor and BOD
2020
LightBeam.ai believes that Privacy will be the new business currency and Data Privacy Automation(DPA) will be the way to achieve this. Check out the beautiful 8VC piece on Lightbeam's comprehensive and visionary approach to their domain and the amazing team behind it.
LightBeam.ai employs a zero-trust data protection approach to streamline and unify data security, privacy, and AI governance.
Raised $22,300,000.00 from Dropbox Ventures, Vertex Ventures US, Village Global, Alumni Ventures and 8VC.
Investor and BOD
2021
Rocketlane is customer-onboarding as SaaS to the masses with its purpose-built platform that shortens time to value, eliminates hit-or-miss experiences for customers, and helps deliver a collaborative, transparent, and delightful onboarding experience for every customer. 8VC led the Series A in Sept'21, joining the India SaaS revolution.
Rocketlane is a project management and collaboration platform that enhances the customer onboarding processes for businesses.
Raised $45,000,000.00 from 8i Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Z47 and 8VC.
Lead investor and BOD
2021
Bringing clarity to data by taking the category-leading OSS metadata platform LinkedIn Datahub to market along with the critical workflows on top that the future of all data-driven enterprises need. 8VC gratefully led the seed and A rounds.
We bring clarity to data.
Raised $30,000,000.00 from Sherpalo Ventures, Guillermo Rauch and 8VC.
Founding CTO, then Advisor
2020
Building the independent advisor’s total solution for private market investments and better client outcomes. Was a privilege to help start the company and hire the initial engineering team (Sep 2020 to Apr 2021). Only in a firm like 8VC can we be a hands-on "engineer-builder" and an investor at the same time.
Lead seed Investor and BOD
2019
8VC gratefully led the seed round of this visionary vertical SaaS company - disrupting the legacy $1.4T corporate travel industry with its cloud-native, API-first, unbundled platform.
Travel-as-a-Service platform
Raised $116,000,000.00 from Blank Ventures, Madrona, ICONIQ Growth, Durable Capital Partners and Mubadala Capital Ventures.
Investor and BOD
2020
Proud member of Team Yugabyte, lead Series B investor, and inspired by the multi-API, cloud-native, application-first vision that continues to drive this category-creating database company.
Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.
Raised $291,000,000.00 from Dell Technologies Capital, Alkeon Capital, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, 8VC, Sapphire Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Wipro Ventures.
Investor and BOD
2018
8VC quietly led Ushur’s Series A back in late summer of 2018 anticipating the 2nd phase of the “smart enterprise revolution” for customer-interaction and engagement workflows in verticals such insurance, financial services, banking and health-care. Since then, Ushur has expanded its intelligent automation platform capabilities, built a phenomenal exec team and landed a long list of marquee customers.
Ushur is a cloud-based AI company that automates service workflows in both the backend process and conversational interfaces.
Raised $92,000,000.00 from Iron Pillar, Third Point Ventures, 8VC, Pentland Ventures and Aflac Global Ventures.