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I am driven by curiosity and constant learning. My passion is to build, scale and shape the future with remarkable teams that create innovative products and services changing the way people and businesses live and work.Things I have done:• Bridge between the startup ecosystem and well-established market leaders (ex: Nike, SAP, Time Warner, and Turner Broadcasting) in corporate innovation and VC roles• Extended/distributed R+D reach and capacity, resulting in multiple patents and revenue• Board and Board Observer experience with multiple companies across B-B, SaaS, and B-C• Launched new business models, turned around struggling businesses, and created corporate resiliency and transformation• Launched corporate investment vehicles: Funds, Accelerators, Incubators, Venture Studios, and JVs• Worked with hundreds of startups as an active investor, advisor, and mentor (that raised $500M+ in capital)• Built and led teams that launched businesses with $billions in transactions and revenue: MLB.com; Sephora.com; Realtor.com; Nike.com (Digital Commerce in China); and Hotwire.com. • Managed P&Ls globally and held numerous roles domestically and internationally • Sourced, negotiated, and integrated acquisitions from napkin to legal document.I have been a featured speaker, contributor, panelist and interviewee on: TechCrunch, Vator, Variety, Multi-Channel News, Digital Hollywood, NAB, SXSW, Chief Digital Officer Conference, AppNation and others. Things I Know: venture capital and angel investing, corporate venture capital, venture studio models, accelerators/incubators, extensive product, business and corporate development. Technical background in B-B software, SaaS, PaaS, AI, machine learning, data strategy, blockchain, digital assets, B2C software, cloud computing, social networks, software development, IoT, and wearable devices. Strategy, general management, mergers +acquisitions, acquisition integration, international expansion.
Balaji Gopinath's Current Company Details
Balaji Gopinath Work Experience Details
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Cofounder & General PartnerKubera Venture Capital Aug 2019 - PresentDenver, Colorado, UsKubera Venture Capital is an early-stage vc firm focused on investments in Applied AI/ML, data science, deep technology, Industry 4.0, and the Future of Work. We invest “Beyond the Bay” in emerging technology hubs across the US.
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AdvisorAnt Venture Partners Nov 2024 - Present -
InvestorCellchorus May 2024 - PresentHouston, Tx, Us -
Investor And Board AdvisorEnkrypt Ai Dec 2023 - PresentBoston, Us -
InvestorNarratize Dec 2023 - PresentCincinnati, Ohio, Us -
Investor And AdvisorSuperbio.Ai Nov 2023 - PresentPalo Alto, Ca, Us -
Investor And AdvisorEma - The Ai For Women Sep 2023 - PresentHouston, Texas, Us -
InvestorCaastle Feb 2023 - PresentNew York, Us -
Investor And Board AdvisorRefiberd Dec 2022 - Present -
MentorNational Venture Capital Association Nov 2022 - PresentWashington, Dc, Us -
Investor & AdvisorAi Optics Oct 2022 - PresentNew York, New York, Us -
Investor And Board ObserverWestock Oct 2022 - PresentFort Lee, New Jersey, Us -
AdvisorThe Free Spirits Company Oct 2022 - PresentMill Valley, California, Us -
Investor & AdvisorGoodhood (Formerly Fixmycar) Oct 2022 - PresentAnn Arbor, Michigan, Us -
Investor & Board ObserverVerusen Apr 2019 - PresentAtlanta, Georgia, Us -
Investor & AdvisorSynthesis Ai Sep 2020 - PresentSan Francisco, California, Us -
InvestorCorvus Robotics Apr 2020 - PresentSan Francisco, Ca, Us -
Investor & Board Advisor (Acquired By Avalara, Inc.)Paper Crane Aug 2020 - PresentBoston, Massachusetts, Us -
AdvisorPienso Dec 2017 - PresentArlington, Virginia, Us -
MentorTechstars Apr 2016 - PresentNew York City, New York, Us -
Advisor And MentorForum Ventures Jun 2015 - PresentNew York, Ny, UsAcceleprise is an accelerator focused on enterprise and B-B technology. -
Co-Founder And Managing DirectorUbuntu Ventures Jan 2016 - PresentA boutique advisory and consulting firm that works alongside Corporate Venture, Strategy and Corp Dev groups to define innovation strategies that align with strategic initiatives and operational challenges. We partner with corporations to build the future through a sustained innovation blueprints bolstered by Venture Capital, R+D expansion, distributed risk strategies, and M+A which provide a tangible path to results.We have worked with over 20 companies globally to define and execute on corporate investment and innovation with their respective clients, portfolios, and constituents. We have also launched and managed industry and thematic accelerator and incubation programs.
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Angel Investor, Board Advisor, And Mentor- Feb 2012 - PresentI invest and advise early stage companies in the B-C, and B-B space that change the way people live and work. I love helping turn ideas into products and companies that make people smile and have great returns.Reply.ai, Dec 2016 - May 2019 (acq: Kustomer)Reply.ai is an enterprise bot solution that designs and manages chat bots over major messaging platforms.Upgraded, Inc March 2016 - September 2018 (acq: Ticketmaster/LiveNation)Upgraded is building the next generation of event tickets (sports, music, broadway, and other live events) on a mobile, secure, and smart platform powered by Ethereum/Blockchain technology.Tailos (formerly Maidbot)March 2015 - presentA robotics company on a mission to revolutionize the way humans clean - starting with Rosie - the very first housekeeping robot for hotels.Intricately April 2016 - Jan 2022 (acq: HG Insights)Intricately captures global cloud usage, spend, and engagement in real-time for sales teams, competitive research functions, and financial services firms.Electric ImpApril 2015- July 2020 (acq: Twilio)Electric Imp provides an innovative and powerful PaaS for IoT that makes it simple to connect devices to the Internet.Channel MeterMay 2013 - presentChannelMeter is powerful online video analytics platform that leverages big data to help publishers and brands grow impact and reach success.ContextlyMay 2014 - present Contextly is a SaaS for Brands and Content Publishers to increase their reach and audience.ChuteMay 2012 - June 2018 (acq: ESW Capital) Chute gives brands mastery over the world's visual media.
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Board MemberNcwit - National Center For Women & Information Technology Feb 2012 - PresentNCWIT is the National Center for Women & Information Technology, a non-profit organization chartered in 2004 by the National Science Foundation to increase the participation of girls and women in computing. Led the Entrepreneurial Alliance and co-led Finance Committee.
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Mentor And AdvisorLatinx Startup Alliance Mar 2015 - PresentLSA's mission is to encourage the inspiration and cultivation of U.S. LatinX led technology startup ventures by providing a strong support network of fellow entrepreneurs, investors, innovators, & mentors.
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Strategic AdvisorNoble Money - Acquired By Qenta Apr 2020 - Aug 2022
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Strategic AdvisorDragonfly Group Llc Dec 2018 - Jan 2020Chicago, Il, Us -
Global Vp, Sap.Io Fund & Foundry @SapSap.Io Mar 2017 - Dec 2018San Francisco, California, UsWorked with SAP.iO leadership across the SAP.iO Fund and SAP.iO Foundries to make direct investments in early stage (Seed to Series A) B2B startups and helped launch a global Foundry network of top-tier, equity-free, intensive programs for B2B startups. SAP.iO Foundries accelerate 50+ startups annually across 5 locations world-wide. Managed and hired Foundry team for North America and led the initial strategy to focus on under served entrepreneurs, focusing on women-led startups in particular. SAP.iO is SAP's early stage venture capital division. Over $600MM raised by the startups collectively, and 100's deals closed with SAP customers with startups. -
MentorLaudato Si' Startup Challenge Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
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Managing Director R/Ga Ventures: Connected Commerce Venture StudioR/Ga Mar 2016 - Mar 2017New York, Ny, UsManaging Director of R/GA Ventures Connected Commerce Fund which partnered with Westfield Labs, Macy's, Walmart, Verizon, Bank of America, Shopify, Commonwealth Bank, Intel, American Airlines, and other corporates.Led, negotiated, and closed investments into companies, drove business development and partnership opportunities, and worked closely with R/GA Agency services to manage the entire program. Continue to work with startups around fundraising, strategy, and advise them regularly. I also managed the sourcing, recruiting, day-day program and continued mentorship of startups driving the future of commerce. -
Nike+ Accelerator And Nike Fuel Lab - Mentor And AdvisorNike Mar 2013 - May 2015Beaverton, Or, UsJoined as a mentor and a strategic advisor to the program, its executives, and the startups that were invited into the accelerator.The focus of the program was to allow companies to leverage the Nike+ platform and NikeFuel to build products and services that can inspire and help people to live more active and healthy lifestyles through the use of Nike's wearable products and ecosystem. -
Founder, Managing DirectorMedia Camp Mar 2012 - Jan 2015Media Camp was, arguably, the first Media Focused accelerator in the early stage investing space. I conceived of the idea in 2010 and brought it with me to Turner Broadcasting when I joined as the VP of Emerging Technology. Media Camp was built to be an "Outside-In" innovation effort as one prong of several to help Turner/Time Warner address the oft quoted "Innovator's Dilemma" faced by many large corporates. We connected the C-level at Turner, Time Warner, HBO, and Warner Brothers to startups in a unique way to foster knowledge exchange, ideas, commercial deals, and built a bridge between an old world media conglomerate and the Valley.I was fortunate enough to invest in, work with and learn from over 27 amazing startups over three years with several companies being acquired by Apple, Wish, and others, and the rest continuing to thrive and grow.
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Global Vice President Of Emerging TechnologyTurner Broadcasting Jan 2011 - Jan 2015Atlanta, Georgia, UsRecruited by Time Warner executive team for a new role at Turner Broadcasting reporting into the Chief Emerging Technology Officer to drive strategy, change, and help define the future path of digital media across Turner''s brands: CNN, Turner Sports, NBA Digital, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, TNT, and TBS.Worked in collaboration with Turner's CTO, CIO, CEO as well as EVPs across Turner's ad sales, distribution teams, and brand executives on a global basis.Managed R+D, corporate development, and product teams in Atlanta, San Francisco, EMEA, and Asia Pac Evaluated nascent and emerging technologies and platforms, drove the strategy and developed POCs across all regions to showcase how "Technology Drives Change" in our industry. All endeavors included a business case analysis to quantify potentials in revenue increase, cost reduction, or increased understanding of consumers through data capture.As there was no formal Corporate Development department at Turner, I filled this gap through the West Coast (SF) office and performed both business development efforts on behalf of Turner's brands and other organizations. Worked as the partners and conduits for many of the Silicon Valley bellwether companies, negotiating, defining and in many cases executing on business development deals both domestically and internationally.Acted and had responsibility as the primary liaison between Turner and MIT Media Lab and all university relationships.Recruited and managed teams who were high performers, hired out of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Nokia, and other industry defining brands. We launched the first video application on Google Glass with CNN and were among the early adopters and execution partners with Samsung Gear.Co-inventor on 2 Patents around: Automated Content Recognition (ACR), Interactive Advertising, and Smart TV space with an additional 15+ patents filed and granted to direct reports. -
Investor And AdvisorMatcha - Acq Apple May 2012 - Aug 2013Matcha is a second-screen video search and recommendation service for movies, TV shows and other video content. Matcha was acquired by Apple Inc.
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Investor And AdvisorSocialize - Acquired By Sharethis May 2012 - Mar 2013Socialize is a drop-in social platform that creates a community around apps, leveraging networking features through a single interface. Socialize was acquired by ShareThis in March 2013.
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Digital StrategistNike Feb 2009 - Dec 2010Beaverton, Or, UsDigital Consultant to VP of Global Digital Commerce, NikeHired by Nike Corporate to launch Nike Digitally in China. Launched an eCommerce business in less than 10 months from scratch and helped to source, negotiate, manage, a 3PL in Shanghai, China.Managed and drove the execution of the complete initiative end-end, on time $10M under budget and helped to hire and transition to a native team.Digital and Social Media/Commerce Consultant to CMO organization and VP of Digital Commerce, Converse (Division of Nike, Inc.)Engaged by Nike Corporate to work with the CMO and VP of Converse to build and launch a digital strategy and accompanying eCommerce offering.
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Svp Digital, Consumer Experience, And TechnologyDelivery Agent /Seenon.Com May 2005 - Mar 2009San Francisco, California, UsDelivery Agent was founded on the promise of being able to buy Jennifer Aniston's sweater from the convenience of your TV remote control.Brought into the company during the first round of VC funding and played utilitarian roles at the leadership level; ultimately owning the Product, Creative/Experience, and Technology groups. Moved the company out of people's garages and a $1M run rate to a $100M run rate after 4 years.Owned and managed the building, launch, and on-going operations of a multi-tenant SaaS eCommerce and Interactive Advertising Platforms for: A&E (shophistory.com, shopaetv.com), Discovery Channel Store (store.discovery.com), SeenON.com, SeenOnMTV.com, ABCTVstore.com, NBCUniversalStore.com, ProjectRunway.com, CBSStore.com, Fox Shop, Martha Stewart Shop, Le Tigre USA, Lauren Conrad, Rockband Store, Interscope Records, UFC Store, Boston Celtics Store, and others representing over 40 million monthly unique visitors across the Delivery Agent network.Launched SeenOn.com, a destination site for entertainment focused on the convergence between entertainment, advertising, shopping, and the Internet Connected TV and built shopping enabled video products to tie TV viewing into shopping. -
Vp Business DevelopmentProcurepoint Apr 2003 - Feb 2005ProcurePoint was a Sequoia Capital funded, On-demand (SaaS) software solution for procurement of corporate indirect spend (services and non-catalog spend). I was introduced to the company and CEO by Sequoia as a turnaround opportunity and was fortunate to have Don Valentine on the board and work with a former Hyatt executive who was CEO.I led all strategy initiatives and worked with CEO and VP Product/Engineering to define future product and sales initiatives and develop product and marketing roadmaps and used these to help recap the company and raise a new round of funding in which Sequoia participated.I also reinvigorated a fatigued team and company to increase profitability, introduce a client “self-service” model, and serviced $300+ Million in procurement spend worldwide in over 53 countries with companies like: Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Intel, HP, Raymond James, and Prudential among others.
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Head Of Business DevelopmentKontiki May 2001 - Dec 2002Kontiki was a pioneer in the peer-peer secure media delivery market for consumers, designed to bring rich-media to the masses. The company acquired by Verisign in 2006 and respun out by MK Partners.Worked directly for the late Mike Homer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_HomerI was fortunate to play a variety of roles under Mike and learned from him throughout my tenure at Kontiki.
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Svp Innovation, Emarkets, & Gm, ApacPublicis Sapient May 1997 - May 2001Boston, Massachusetts, UsScient (acquired by Publicis) was a pioneer in the Internet services and consulting industry. I played a central role in expanding the company from a startup, to $300 million in annual revenues with an $8.5B market cap in just over three years. (Scient IPO in 1999)Held GM roles, and invested in and mentored start-ups through the Scient IncubatorSpearheaded and sponsored the creation of the “Any-to-Any” computing group that developed multi-channel and multi-device strategies for clients which was a precursor to today's IoT technologies and offerings.Designed, managed, built, and launched MLB.com. Sephora.com. Hotwire.com, and Realtor.com (now Move.com) among other first generation digital businesses (all transactional) in my 4 years at Scient.Was a key contributor to M+A efforts, company strategy, corporate development, sales, and IR.Regular participant and was a showcase presenter to many analyst days as part of our regular IR interactions with Wall Street.As VP/GM of Global innovation and Delivery, I had responsibility for revenue recovery, customer satisfaction, quality of deliverables and harvesting all of these to create new businesses that we were hoping to spin out of ScentCreated and launched Scient Japan and lived there off/on for almost 2 years as the VP/GM of Japan. Built a team that remains the only legacy BU of Scient today and has expanded into a holding company with multiple companies under it,Launched EMEA, and was point on several corporate development efforts and M+A activities in Europe.
Balaji Gopinath Skills
Viral Marketing
Digital Media
Strategy
E Commerce
Mobile Devices
Business Development
Start Ups
Advertising
Digital Strategy
Digital Marketing
Website Development
Corporate Development
Investments
Venture Development
Venture Capital
Internationalization
International Acquisitions
International Expansion
International Business Experience
Accelerator
Incubators
Idea Incubation
Product Incubation
Technology Incubation
Mergers
Mobile Applications
Analytics
Mobile Marketing
Mergers And Acquisitions
Product Management
Management
Strategic Partnerships
User Experience
Entrepreneurship
Seo
Sem
Content Strategy
Online Advertising
Information Architecture
New Media
Online Marketing
Content Management
Integrated Marketing
Interactive Marketing
Web Analytics
Web Project Management
Saas
Marketing
Leadership
Business Strategy
Balaji Gopinath Education Details
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Massachusetts Institute Of TechnologyMolecular Genetics
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