Bhaskar Ghosh is a Partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm 8VC, where he leads investments in early-phase core enterprise Infra (AI, Data, Cloud) and b2b SaaS start-ups, and incubates enterprise s/w companies (e.g. as founder-CTO of the fintech startup Opto, Aug 2020, co-founder of cyber-security startup Anzenna, Aug 2022 and co-founder of GenAI Analytics startup Spotonix, Jan 2024). Prior to becoming an accidental VC, BG was an engineering executive in Silicon Valley for 20+ years. He was founding Head of Data Infrastructure at LinkedIn in its early days and previously, as an engineering leader, took the fintech pioneer NerdWallet to an IPO, ran Yahoo! Rightmedia Ad exchange and built enterprise database kernels at Oracle.
A major focus for BG has been driving the expansion of 8VC’s investment and build platform in the India-US corridor, leading the series A/B in Rocketlane, doing enterprise seed investments with top VC firms in Bangalore and expanding 8VS’s engineering footprint in major Indian tech-hubs.
BG has a PhD in CS from Yale (serving on the boards of Yale Graduate School and Roberts Entrepreneurship Fund) and is passionate about non-profits building social, technology and cultural infrastructure in India, the US-India corridor (check out Ragas Live 2023 for fun!) and the American deep south through HBCU’s.