Vivek is a member of the investment team, where he focuses on data & software infrastructure and horizontal B2B SaaS. He also spends time on the Build program starting and incubating companies.
Prior to joining 8VC, Vivek was a software engineer on the core database group at 8VC portfolio company Yugabyte, building YugabyteDB, a high-performance distributed transactional database. Before that, he worked on machine learning pipelines for the Sales Intelligence team at Bloomberg.
Vivek studied Computer Science and Statistics & Data Science at Yale. He wrote his thesis on decentralized databases.
He is an avid F1 fan and an enjoyer of science fiction & fantasy, particularly Sanderson's Cosmere. He hails from Issaquah, Washington, and has spent time living in New York & various parts of Connecticut.
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Fixing the Missing Layer in Legal AI: Introducing PointOne
At 8VC, we invest in technologies that transform antiquated processes in old-line industries. Law is one of the most entrenched. For decades, it resisted the modernization that swept through nearly every other corner of the private sector.
Fixing the Missing Layer in Legal AI: Introducing PointOne
At 8VC, we invest in technologies that transform antiquated processes in old-line industries. Law is one of the most entrenched. For decades, it resisted the modernization that swept through nearly every other corner of the private sector.
Announcing Our Investment in Edra
Ontology was the silent word of the 2010s. Palantir built a $400B company on a simple insight: raw data alone isn’t enough to understand how a business operates. You need to map the nouns and verbs of a business—the objects, their states, their relations—on top of the data to navigate the intricacies of any operationally complex organization. The ontology was the grammar of the enterprise. Building an ontology is an immersive, painstaking process of extracting knowledge from the minds of experts across a company.
Announcing Our Investment in Edra
Ontology was the silent word of the 2010s. Palantir built a $400B company on a simple insight: raw data alone isn’t enough to understand how a business operates. You need to map the nouns and verbs of a business—the objects, their states, their relations—on top of the data to navigate the intricacies of any operationally complex organization. The ontology was the grammar of the enterprise. Building an ontology is an immersive, painstaking process of extracting knowledge from the minds of experts across a company.
From Plans to Progress: Announcing the 8VC-Bobyard Partnership
From Plans to Progress: Announcing the 8VC-Bobyard Partnership
The AI Wave
Since the advent of Silicon Valley, we’ve seen six major technological waves: “Electronic Tools,” “Semiconductor,” “Enterprise,” “Telecom,” “Consumer”, and “Smart Enterprise.” We can now add a seventh: AI Applications & Services.
The AI Wave
Since the advent of Silicon Valley, we’ve seen six major technological waves: “Electronic Tools,” “Semiconductor,” “Enterprise,” “Telecom,” “Consumer”, and “Smart Enterprise.” We can now add a seventh: AI Applications & Services.
An Early Map for a Useful Robotics Future
If reading this, you’re likely able to recall the first moment you marvelled at some act of physical autonomy - the sort our progenitors might have pronounced spellwork. The memory is for some more recent than for others; it may have been a Waymo or a mobile manipulator, a humanoid or a quadruped. In any case, the experience seems to have surpassed that threshold of ubiquity which affords us all the right to say: robotic intelligence has captured our mainstream public imagination.
An Early Map for a Useful Robotics Future
If reading this, you’re likely able to recall the first moment you marvelled at some act of physical autonomy - the sort our progenitors might have pronounced spellwork. The memory is for some more recent than for others; it may have been a Waymo or a mobile manipulator, a humanoid or a quadruped. In any case, the experience seems to have surpassed that threshold of ubiquity which affords us all the right to say: robotic intelligence has captured our mainstream public imagination.
The American Development Renaissance: Our Investment in Bedrock Robotics
The concept of building holds mythic status in the world of new venture creation, and the mythos often obscures the difficulty. In construction, there are no such illusions. Construction is a $2 trillion U.S./$13 trillion global industry where automation has barely scratched the surface of possibility. Beneath that surface is dirt—unfathomable amounts. For new housing subdivisions, commercial real estate developments, data centers to power the AI boom, highway expansions, and countless other projects, American abundance begins with dirt.
The American Development Renaissance: Our Investment in Bedrock Robotics
The concept of building holds mythic status in the world of new venture creation, and the mythos often obscures the difficulty. In construction, there are no such illusions. Construction is a $2 trillion U.S./$13 trillion global industry where automation has barely scratched the surface of possibility. Beneath that surface is dirt—unfathomable amounts. For new housing subdivisions, commercial real estate developments, data centers to power the AI boom, highway expansions, and countless other projects, American abundance begins with dirt.
