Gopal Venkatesan

Programmer | Building Heavy Protocol | Ex-LinkedIn, Ex-Yahoo

๐Ÿ“ India๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 2 investments๐Ÿ“… 9 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested Jul 2020
Operator-angel๐ŸŒ India
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Jul 2020
Automated fresh food kiosks for condos, offices, supermarkets, and public facilities.
Investor
Sep 2017
Making the right peoples decisions at the right time drives outstanding business impact but HR teams often fail to get peoples insights on time due to data fragmentations. Introducing Peoplebox - YC-backed OKR, Performance Management and People Analytics Platform that connects with various sources to get people and business data in one place to build actionable people analytics and drive strategic people decision-making. Further, it makes goal alignment and performance management super easy by integrating with your existing tools and workflow. Offering unparalleled customisation, exceptional customer support, and enterprise-grade security and access control, it helps HR teams to implement people strategies as they want.
Experience ยท 4 entries
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2025
Co-Founder / CTO
Sep 2025
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2020
Investor
Jul 2020
Automated fresh food kiosks for condos, offices, supermarkets, and public facilities.
2017
Investor
Sep 2017
Making the right peoples decisions at the right time drives outstanding business impact but HR teams often fail to get peoples insights on time due to data fragmentations. Introducing Peoplebox - YC-backed OKR, Performance Management and People Analytics Platform that connects with various sources to get people and business data in one place to build actionable people analytics and drive strategic people decision-making. Further, it makes goal alignment and performance management super easy by integrating with your existing tools and workflow. Offering unparalleled customisation, exceptional customer support, and enterprise-grade security and access control, it helps HR teams to implement people strategies as they want.
2011
Principal Engineer II (Technical Yahoo)
Jul 2011
Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. To learn more about Yahoo, please visit yahooinc.com.