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September 15, 2020 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am PDT
FreeGetting Ready for Growth with Rashmi Gopinath
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Topic:
Growth doesn’t just happen by chance. Rashmi Gopinath, General Partner at B Capital Group, explains how to prepare for Series B, C and beyond — and what investors need to see at each of those stages.
Register at Founders Network for insights on:
- Key Growth Milestones
- Hitting Your Metrics
- Staffing for Growth
- Planning Your Expansion
- Identifying Profit Goals
Presenter:
Rashmi Gopinath is a General Partner at B Capital Group where she focuses on investments in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, devops, and artificial intelligence and machine learning. She brings over two decades of experience investing and operating in enterprise technologies.
Ms. Gopinath was previously a Managing Director at M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, where she led investments globally in the enterprise space. At M12, Ms. Gopinath sat on several Boards including Synack, Innovaccer, Contrast Security, Incorta, Frame, among others.
Prior to M12, Ms. Gopinath was an Investment Director with Intel Capital where she was involved in the firm’s investments in startups including MongoDB, ForeScout, Maginatics, BlueData, among others.
Ms. Gopinath held operating roles at high-growth startups such as BlueData and Couchbase where she led global business development and product marketing roles. She began her career in engineering and product roles at Oracle and GE Healthcare. Ms. Gopinath earned an M.B.A. from Northwestern University, and a B.S. in Engineering from University of Mumbai in India.
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