Rashmi Gopinath

Co- Founder & Managing Partner at BAM Corner Point

Speaker

Rashmi Gopinath is a cofounder and Managing Partner at BAM Corner Point, an early growth VC fund built in partnership with Balyasny Asset Management, a $40B multi-strategy hedge fund. She led the firm’s investments across several high-growth AI startups such as Poolside, Higgsfield AI, Patlytics, and Innovaccer. She brings over two decades of experience investing and operating in enterprise infrastructure and application software technologies. Previously, Rashmi was General Partner and Head of Enterprise Software at B Capital where she led the firm’s global enterprise software practice and led investments in companies such as Poolside, Lambda Labs, FalconX, Pendo, OwnBackup (acq. by CRM), Innovaccer, Phenom People, Labelbox, Perimeter81 (acq. by CHKP) among others.

Rashmi was previously a Managing Director at M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, where she led investments globally in enterprise software and sat on several boards including Synack, Innovaccer, Frame (acq. by NTNX), among others. Prior to M12, Rashmi was an Investment Director with Intel Capital where she was involved in the firm’s investments in startups including MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB), ForeScout (Nasdaq: FSCT), Maginatics (acq. by EMC), BlueData (acq. by HPE), among others. Rashmi held operating roles at high-growth startups such as BlueData (acq. by HPE) and Couchbase (Nasdaq: BASE) where she led global business development, product, and marketing roles. She began her career in engineering and product roles at Oracle and GE Healthcare. She earned an MBA from Northwestern University, and a BS in electrical engineering from University of Mumbai in India.