Balaji Gopinath

AI/ML Focused Venture Investor with Operational Backbone : Builder - Driving Innovation and Growth in Board and Leadership Roles across Startups and Enterprises and Striving to be a Good Human.

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2024
VC🌍 United States
18
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5
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6
Mid stage
0
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14y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor
May 2024
Life exists in motion. CellChorus® applies visual AI to evaluate thousands of microscopy experiments in parallel to improve the development and delivery of novel therapies for biopharmaceutical and research customers. The companys Time-lapse Imaging Microscopy in Nanowell Grids (TIMING™) platform provides high-throughput evaluation of how individual cells move, behave, interact and perform.
Investor and Board Advisor
Dec 2023
Narratize is the Generative AI Coauthor for Innovative Enterprises. With Narratize, everyone from entrepreneurs to enterprises can transform scientific, technical, and medical insights into compelling content that scales. Speed. Accuracy. Magic. Narratize empowers you to create accurate, compelling content in 20 minutes or less. With the power of AI, Narratize users—from chemistry to aerospace, healthcare to finance—organize their best ideas, generate impactful narratives, and adapt content into different formats to gain visibility, understanding and buy-in.
Investor and Board Advisor
Dec 2023
Achieve AI security and safety with a platform that detects threats, removes vulnerabilities, and monitors performance for continuous insights.
Investor
Nov 2023
Worlds largest AI library for biology
Investor and Advisor
Sep 2023
With over 10 million interactions, Ema empowers women and their families to take control of their health and wellness through conversational AI that seamlessly integrates with companies to provide tailored resources. Hear more about our AI on our podcast: https://www.emaapp.co/the-future-of-femalehood-podcast
Investor
Feb 2023
Were a leading B2B technology and services company driving the next evolution of inventory monetization for apparel and beyond. By offering rental subscription services alongside traditional business models, we are helping brands meet the needs of today’s consumers who want more flexibility in how they experience and enjoy fashion while also driving their own bottom lines.
Investor and Advisor
Dec 2022
Refiberd is building an intelligent sorting technology for the fashion industry - from quality assurance for T2T recycling, to sorting for reuse and recycling, to upstream material testing for brands. We empower the fashion industry to achieve true circularity and understand the materials present in the supply chain.
Investor and Board Observer
Oct 2022
WeStock helps brands acquire and nurture retail shoppers at scale, by turning every consumer touchpoint into a customer acquisition event
Investor & Advisor
Oct 2022
Goodhood is on a mission to make car ownership convenient & affordable. Think of Goodhood as the Amazon Prime for your car, where a single subscription brings car care right to your doorstep. The best waiting room is your living room! We serve customers in Detroit, Dallas & Houston.
Investor & Advisor
Oct 2022
AI Optics is a medical device and digital health company focused on building products that prevent vision-loss.
Investor
Sep 2020
Pioneering synthetic data and generative AI technology to build more capable and ethical AI.
Investor & Board Advisor
Aug 2020
Paper Crane is a stealth startup inventing foundational artificial intelligence technologies that make advanced geospatial data insights highly accessible. We make Location Intelligence for Everyone a reality.
Investor
Apr 2020
Were building infrastructure that oversees the storage of all physical goods in the future, using software and robotics/AI. Were starting with drones that oversee inventory in the most centralized part of the supply chain (full pallet distribution centers). Come join us on our journey!
Investor & Board Observer
Apr 2019
Verusen is the leader in materials intelligence focused on the digitalization of the supply ecosystem to conquer materials complexity by leveraging its advanced artificial intelligence (AI), data harmonization, and decision support to help premier global companies attain supply chain resiliency and improve their bottom lines. The company’s platform harmonizes disparate material data across legacy systems and processes while providing trusted data across the enterprise to reduce supplier and operational risk. The result is a data foundation organizations can trust to fuel digitalized transformation and support related Supply Chain and Industry 4.0 initiatives. Visit verusen.com for more information, or follow us on Twitter at @Verusen_AI and LinkedIn.
Experience · 30 entries
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Investments (18)
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Board (3)
2026
Gibson Labs
Founder
2026
2024
Advisor
Nov 2024
Enabling corporations to take ownership of the technology companies that are changing the bottom line
Investor
May 2024
Life exists in motion. CellChorus® applies visual AI to evaluate thousands of microscopy experiments in parallel to improve the development and delivery of novel therapies for biopharmaceutical and research customers. The companys Time-lapse Imaging Microscopy in Nanowell Grids (TIMING™) platform provides high-throughput evaluation of how individual cells move, behave, interact and perform.
2023
Investor and Board Advisor
Dec 2023
Narratize is the Generative AI Coauthor for Innovative Enterprises. With Narratize, everyone from entrepreneurs to enterprises can transform scientific, technical, and medical insights into compelling content that scales. Speed. Accuracy. Magic. Narratize empowers you to create accurate, compelling content in 20 minutes or less. With the power of AI, Narratize users—from chemistry to aerospace, healthcare to finance—organize their best ideas, generate impactful narratives, and adapt content into different formats to gain visibility, understanding and buy-in.
Investor and Board Advisor
Dec 2023
Achieve AI security and safety with a platform that detects threats, removes vulnerabilities, and monitors performance for continuous insights.
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