Bhaskar Ghosh (BG)  is Partner and CTO at Silicon Valley venture capital firm 8VC, where he focuses on investing in early-phase start-ups building B2B SaaS, enterprise infrastructure and  data-driven businesses, and helping incubate companies with tech-entrepreneurs. Some of BG’s representative early-phase investments in enterprise Infrastructure include (Yugabyte, Acryl Data, Tetrate, Nylas, Seaplane, Ponder etc) and in vertical SaaS automation include (Tilda, Formlogic, Ushur). 

Prior to becoming an accidental venture capitalist, BG was a builder and engineering executive in Silicon Valley for 20+ years. As the founding Head of Data Infrastructure at LinkedIn, BG and his team built and ran the data platforms that helped  enable LinkedIn's meteoric growth from 50MM to 550MM+ members. Previously, BG ran engineering at Yahoo! RightMedia (the largest real-time display-ads exchange of its time), and learned about “big data” while writing parts of the Oracle and Informix RDBMS kernels.  Most recently,  BG ran engineering at NerdWallet, helping scale the company to a market leader in consumer finance marketplaces. BG has a PhD in Computer Science from Yale, a holder of 22 US patents and passionately involved in non-profits building social, education and cultural infrastructure in the American deep south and South Asia.