Bhaskar “BG” Ghosh is the CTO at 8VC, having initially joined the company as an Advisor in December 2015. Since receiving his PhD in Computer Science from Yale, BG has had a distinguished career in Silicon Valley, working for 20+ years in technology leadership in diverse domains including enterprise data and web infrastructure, digital advertising, social networks, and consumer fintech. Previously, he ran technology at Nerdwallet as VP of Engineering, helped build the teams and back-ends that helped fuel LinkedIn’s meteoric growth as its Head of Data Engineering, and led engineering for the pioneering Yahoo! Right Media Display Advertising Exchange. BG built his deep technology and data chops developing RDMBS kernels at top enterprise data-platform companies like Oracle and Informix. At 8VC, BG works with the entrepreneurs and leaders in our portfolio as a virtual CTO, and in finding the next big investment idea across technology domains.
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Palo Alto, California
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$100K - $500K
$500K - $1M
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AI / Devtools
Logistics
Deeptech
Biotech
Digital Health
Defense, Gov, & Legal
Fintech
B2C/E-Commerce
Enterprise
Generalist
Geographies their fund invests in
USA
Their Funds
8VC
Technology and life sciences investment firm that builds and invests in the world’s most ambitious companies. 8VC partners with elite founders to build transformational technologies that create long-term economic and societal value.
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