Leadership Team

Ashmeet is the Founder and Chief Engineer of Engineering Capital. Investing before traditional venture firms, Engineering Capital specializes in leading seed rounds in software companies with a technical insight. Ashmeet’s experience includes running venture capital funds and leadership positions helping build the industry leading products VMware ESX Server and Silicon Graphics WebFORCE. Ashmeet came into venture from VMware, where he ran product management for their flagship product - ESX Server. His successful investments include Azure (IPO NYSE: AZRE) and SignalFx, recently acquired by Splunk for $1 billion, Tubi.tv (acq: FOX). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Baffle, Concentric, Evinced, Nimbella and ShiftRight. His active investments include Kentik, Menlo Security, Nexla, Prismo Systems, Robust Intelligence, vFunction, and YotaScale – in all of which he was the seed investor.

Ashmeet received an MBA from Wharton with Honors, MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a BS in Computer Science summa cum laude from USC. In his spare-time he can be found planning his second trip to Mt. Everest.

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.

Anik is a General Partner at BGV and a board member of Drishti Labs, Webscale Networks, Constella Intelligence, Spyderbat and Blue Cedar.

Anik focuses on investments in the areas of AI and Cybersecurity. He is also responsible for leading BGV’s Customer Advisory Board and founding EAIGG, a community platform of AI practitioners, entrepreneurs and technology investors dedicated to sharing practical insights and promoting the adoption of responsible AI governance in the industry.