Vivek Gopalan

Vivek Gopalan is a member of the investment team at 8VC in San Francisco, CA, where he focuses on data infrastructure, horizontal B2B SaaS, and the firm's Build incubation program. Prior to his current role, he served as a software engineer in the core database group at Yugabyte, an 8VC portfolio company, joining during its $30 million Series B funding round. He previously developed machine learning pipelines for the sales intelligence division at Bloomberg and conducted technical due diligence under 8VC Partner and CTO Bhaskar Ghosh. Gopalan earned his undergraduate degrees in computer science and data science from Yale University, where he also served as the president of the Yale Code4Good student organization. His background combines distributed systems engineering with venture capital, driving his current focus on early-stage enterprise software and privacy-preserving computing investments.