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Vivek Gopalan

Investing & Building at 8VC

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Vivek Gopalan is currently working at 8VC in San Francisco, California, focusing on investing and building companies. He has successfully invested in companies like Yugabyte at Series B and has a background in software engineering from roles at Yugabyte and Bloomberg LP. Vivek Gopalan has made significant contributions in the tech industry, transitioning from software engineering roles at Bloomberg LP and Yugabyte to his current position at 8VC, where he invests in and builds successful companies. One of his notable achievements includes investing in Yugabyte at Series B, showcasing his strategic acumen in identifying promising ventures.

Work Experience 

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8VC

  • Investing & Building

    2020 - Current

    Focus on enterprise data & software infrastructure and B2B SaaS.

8VC transform the technology infrastructure behind many industries.

8vc.com
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Yugabyte

  • Software Engineer

    2020 - 2020

    Distributed SQL on the cloud. Implemented Tablegroups - configurable colocated partitioning.

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.

yugabyte.com
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Bloomberg LP

  • Software Engineer

    2019 - 2019

    Sales Intelligence Machine Learning Team at Bloomberg. Built and deployed models (& model pipelines) from end-to-end. Worked on some bandit feedback problems.

Yale Digital Humanities Lab

  • Undergraduate Developer

    2018 - 2019

    Lead developer for the Pauli Murray Digiography Project. Topic modeling, sentiment analysis, and NER. Trying to solve graph generation problems (tying entities to topics & sentiment).

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Yale University

  • Summer Research Intern

    2018 - 2018

    Working with Professor Ruzica Piskac to develop a functionally reactive network controller. Learned & forgot P4, and fell out of love with Haskell.

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Transpo Group

  • Engineering Intern

    2016 - 2017

    Built automations and counted cars & trucks. Mostly fun with a bit of VBA chaos sprinkled in.

Transpo Group is a transportation planning and traffic engineering firm.

transpogroup.com

Education 

Investments 

Yugabyte

Series B

Total funding: $290M

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