Bhaskar Ghosh

Investment Team
San Francisco, CA
[overview]

Bhaskar “BG” Ghosh is a Partner at 8VC, having initially joined the firm as an Advisor in December 2015. Since receiving his PhD in Computer Science from Yale, BG has enjoyed a distinguished 20+ year career in Silicon Valley technology leadership, in domains spanning enterprise data and web infrastructure, digital advertising, social networks, and consumer fintech. Previously, he was Nerdwallet's VP of Engineering, helped build the teams and backends that supported LinkedIn’s meteoric growth as founding Head of Data Engineering, and led engineering for the groundbreaking Yahoo! Right Media Display Advertising Exchange. BG built his technology and data chops developing RDMBS kernels at top enterprise data platform companies, including Oracle and Informix.

At 8VC, BG leads enterprise infrastructure investing and helps to launch companies through the Build program, including Opto and Anzenna. He serves on the boards of Nile, Yugabyte, Ushur, Acryl Data, Spotnana, Rocketlane, LightBeam.ai, and Aryn.

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Interview
Nov 17, 2023

Mike Del Balso (Tecton) Fireside Chat

At our September Chat8VC gathering, we hosted Mike Del Balso, founder and CEO of Tecton and a visionary behind Uber's Michelangelo, for a conversation with 8VC Partner Bhaskar Ghosh. As a reminder, Chat8VC is a monthly series hosted at our SF office where we bring together founders and early-phase operators excited about the foundation model ecosystem. We focus on having highly technical, implementation-oriented conversations and give founders and builders the opportunity to showcase what they’re working on through lightning demos and fireside chats. This can be a fun side project, related to a company they’re starting, or a high-leverage use case within a company operating at scale. 

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Interview
Nov 17, 2023

Mike Del Balso (Tecton) Fireside Chat

At our September Chat8VC gathering, we hosted Mike Del Balso, founder and CEO of Tecton and a visionary behind Uber's Michelangelo, for a conversation with 8VC Partner Bhaskar Ghosh. As a reminder, Chat8VC is a monthly series hosted at our SF office where we bring together founders and early-phase operators excited about the foundation model ecosystem. We focus on having highly technical, implementation-oriented conversations and give founders and builders the opportunity to showcase what they’re working on through lightning demos and fireside chats. This can be a fun side project, related to a company they’re starting, or a high-leverage use case within a company operating at scale. 

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News
Sep 28, 2023

The Other 90%: Introducing the Aryn-8VC Partnership

Unstructured data is the undiscovered country of the enterprise, containing the institutional wisdom AI seeks to capture. Unlocking the value of that data has proved elusive, as both enterprise search and LLMs have fallen short individually. Aryn's mission is to help you answer questions from all of your data. To this end, Aryn is bringing generative AI to OpenSearch and data preparation - and bridging the gap from results to answers. 

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News
Sep 28, 2023

The Other 90%: Introducing the Aryn-8VC Partnership

Unstructured data is the undiscovered country of the enterprise, containing the institutional wisdom AI seeks to capture. Unlocking the value of that data has proved elusive, as both enterprise search and LLMs have fallen short individually. Aryn's mission is to help you answer questions from all of your data. To this end, Aryn is bringing generative AI to OpenSearch and data preparation - and bridging the gap from results to answers. 

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News
Jun 22, 2023

From Overload to Oversight: Announcing the Acryl & 8VC Partnership

It’s hardly news that we’re living in an era of information overload, with an unrelenting explosion in data volume, complexity, and fragmentation - most of it by popular demand. As user personas have multiplied, new tools and systems of record have cropped up faster than they can be managed. Despite massive data growth, there’s an increasingly acute shortage of data discoverability and transparency. Simply determining what lives where is surprisingly difficult. Perhaps most worrisome, the downstream consequences of data misplacement and breaking changes extend far and wide. 

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News
Jun 22, 2023

From Overload to Oversight: Announcing the Acryl & 8VC Partnership

It’s hardly news that we’re living in an era of information overload, with an unrelenting explosion in data volume, complexity, and fragmentation - most of it by popular demand. As user personas have multiplied, new tools and systems of record have cropped up faster than they can be managed. Despite massive data growth, there’s an increasingly acute shortage of data discoverability and transparency. Simply determining what lives where is surprisingly difficult. Perhaps most worrisome, the downstream consequences of data misplacement and breaking changes extend far and wide. 

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May 16, 2023

The Automated Code Testing Revolution is Underway: Announcing the SapientAI-8VC Partnership

AI and automation have become essential components in the developer's toolkit, transforming the way we build software and offering the best hope yet of meeting the unrelenting demand for scale, speed, and reliability that has come to characterize the cloud-native era. Whether as engineers or investors, when attempting to identify the essential tools amid a sea of contenders, context is everything. This is doubly true for generating test code - a realization that helped to guide the formation of 8VC’s newest portfolio company, SapientAI.

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May 16, 2023

The Automated Code Testing Revolution is Underway: Announcing the SapientAI-8VC Partnership

AI and automation have become essential components in the developer's toolkit, transforming the way we build software and offering the best hope yet of meeting the unrelenting demand for scale, speed, and reliability that has come to characterize the cloud-native era. Whether as engineers or investors, when attempting to identify the essential tools amid a sea of contenders, context is everything. This is doubly true for generating test code - a realization that helped to guide the formation of 8VC’s newest portfolio company, SapientAI.

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Sep 14, 2022

A Song of Speed and Uptime: Announcing the Nile-8VC Partnership

Enterprise networking is the offensive line of IT. It’s not flashy. Few understand its inner workings. It tends to get taken for granted. Yet it is a key determinant of forward progress, and when something goes down, or you need to replace a key piece (or worse, start from scratch), people instantly panic. ‍

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Sep 14, 2022

A Song of Speed and Uptime: Announcing the Nile-8VC Partnership

Enterprise networking is the offensive line of IT. It’s not flashy. Few understand its inner workings. It tends to get taken for granted. Yet it is a key determinant of forward progress, and when something goes down, or you need to replace a key piece (or worse, start from scratch), people instantly panic. ‍

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Sep 12, 2022

Scaling Category-Creating Companies - An 8VC Event (Transcript)

This transcript comes from a panel that 8VC hosted for the SaaSBOOMi community during a series of events in Silicon Valley. SaaSBOOMi is a massive and fast growing pay-it-forward community of 1500+ Indian SaaS companies. We believe deeply in the ability of SaaS founders across the world to build global from day one. 

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Sep 12, 2022

Scaling Category-Creating Companies - An 8VC Event (Transcript)

This transcript comes from a panel that 8VC hosted for the SaaSBOOMi community during a series of events in Silicon Valley. SaaSBOOMi is a massive and fast growing pay-it-forward community of 1500+ Indian SaaS companies. We believe deeply in the ability of SaaS founders across the world to build global from day one. 

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