Gopal Tampi

Private Equity, Investment Banker, Entrepreneur, Investor, and Client advocate. Always looking for ways to reduce inefficiency.

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2024
VC🌍 United States
8
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11y
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Portfolio

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Investor
Oct 2024
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Investor
Mar 2024
Percent is unlocking private credit and providing unparalleled access through its modern private credit market, empowering investors, borrowers, and underwriters with innovative technology to increase the speed and frequency of transactions at a fraction of the cost. The company’s core infrastructure delivers public market efficiencies to the analog private credit market by powering the sourcing, structuring, syndication, surveillance and servicing of private credit transactions from beginning to end. Founded in 2018, Percent’s platform is becoming the market standard for asset-based and corporate lending, powering over $1 billion in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar private credit industry. For additional information, please visit www.percent.com.
Investor and Advisor
Mar 2021
We, at LimeRoad believe that individuals and not institutions make history. We strongly feel that individuals will transform the Indian Lifestyle Retail, as we know it and we are going to help them do it.  Niche sellers are going to be the brands of tomorrow. The housewives and students will be the mini-retailers that will help us create content, rate products and identify sellers as well as amplify it with design graduates who roll out the  hottest designs. LimeRoad aims to create a million entrepreneurs and harness the power of every individual who is ready to evolve with us.  Our Mission To create the most delightful discovery platform and to be the largest distribution platform for sellers in India, fuelling growth, profitability and employment in Indias oldest industry.
Investor
Jun 2020
Grabango is the leading provider of checkout-free technology for existing, large-scale store chains. Grabango delivers a next-generation shopper experience and is the only enterprise-class, checkout-free solution on the market today. The Grabango platform is a fault-tolerant, edge computing network that accurately processes millions of simultaneous transactions. The system places no limits on who can enter the store, what can be sold there, or how the shelving is configured. For more information, visit www.grabango.com.
Investor
Apr 2018
Serial entrepreneur Anshuman Vohra founded HALO with a vision to revolutionize how the world hydrates. With a bespoke blend of electrolytes, vitamins and minerals, a crisp, refreshing taste and low sugar, HALO comes in a variety of formats to rehydrate your body quickly and efficiently. Available in the US and UK.
Investor
Nov 2017
Emeritus is committed to teaching the skills of the future by making high-quality education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments around the world. It does this by collaborating with more than 80 top-tier universities across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, India and China. Emeritus’ short courses, degree programs, professional certificates, and senior executive programs help individuals learn new skills and transform their lives, companies and organizations. Its unique model of state-of-the-art technology, curriculum innovation, and hands-on instruction from senior faculty, mentors and coaches educates more has educated more than 350,000 individuals across 80+ countries. The Emeritus Group has more than 1,750 employees globally and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai, Singapore, Palo Alto, Mexico City, New York, Boston, London, and Dubai. The company is backed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Leeds Illuminate, Prosus Ventures, GSV Ventures, Peak XV, Bertelsmann, CPPIB, Accel and SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Why learn through Emeritus? Emeritus offers high-quality online learning experience so you can learn in-demand skills to take your career to the next level.
early stageHigher Education
Investor
Oct 2017
Akash Systems, Inc. is a venture-backed, late-stage, Bay Area company that makes and sells Diamond Cooled GPU-based servers to AI companies, Cloud Service Providers, and data centers worldwide. The deep tech company pioneered Diamond Cooling® technology wherein the world’s most thermally conductive material, lab-grown diamond, is brought into intimate contact with GPUs – the densest heat source chip in a modern high compute server. The resulting Akash server is one that exhibits more compute in FLOPS (>50%) and FLOPS per Watt (by 2x) than any other server in the market today. Akash’s Diamond Cooled servers also reduce the energy cost of cooling the entire data center since the servers can operate in an ambient temperature of up to 120oF. The company’s lead investors include Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund. Akash Systems recently deployed its Diamond Cooling® technology in space, where many Akash satellite radios are now in operation.
Board Member
Jun 2015
A virtual college tour makes your campus experience tangible to students who are making important decisions about their college plans. Through a combination of proprietary technology and our award-winning studio production team, our virtual campus tours go beyond what other tour or map vendors provide.
Experience · 14 entries
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Investments (8)
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2024
Investor
Oct 2024
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Managing Director
Apr 2024
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Investor
Mar 2024
Percent is unlocking private credit and providing unparalleled access through its modern private credit market, empowering investors, borrowers, and underwriters with innovative technology to increase the speed and frequency of transactions at a fraction of the cost. The company’s core infrastructure delivers public market efficiencies to the analog private credit market by powering the sourcing, structuring, syndication, surveillance and servicing of private credit transactions from beginning to end. Founded in 2018, Percent’s platform is becoming the market standard for asset-based and corporate lending, powering over $1 billion in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar private credit industry. For additional information, please visit www.percent.com.
2023
Partner
Oct 2023
RavenRiskAI: The AI Platform for Credit Managers. RavenRiskAI is a SaaS platform transforming corporate credit assessment and loan monitoring for lenders and portfolio managers. By combining advanced technologies with deep credit expertise, RavenRiskAI streamlines decision-making for private credit firms, investment managers, and financial institutions. Our AI-powered workflow solutions enable credit professionals to evaluate and monitor credit investments with greater speed, accuracy, and precision. Enterprise-ready and purpose-built by a team that knows credit.
Executive Advisor, Private Equity
Jul 2023
MorganFranklin Consulting is a management advisory firm that works with leading businesses to address complex and transformational finance, technology and business objectives. Areas of expertise include: • Accounting & Risk Advisory • Technology Enablement • Cybersecurity • Transaction Services • Strategic Transformation & Program Execution • Supply Chain Planning MorganFranklin is headquartered in the Washington D.C. area with regional offices in Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Raleigh, Nashville and Charlotte. The company supports clients across the globe.
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