Emma Eschweiler is a director for Silicon Valley Bank’s Technology Group. She is responsible for the growth and development of institutional venture capital and corporate relationships on behalf of SVB, with a focus on partners making direct investments, acquisitions or partnerships principally within the enterprise software ecosystem, including areas such as cybersecurity, developer tools, applications, data infrastructure and open-source initiatives. Additionally, Emma co-authors SVB’s biannual proprietary report, State of the Markets: SaaS Report.

Before her current role, Emma was a vice president in SVB’s Northern California Enterprise Practice, where she managed a portfolio of growth stage, venture-backed, enterprise software clients in the region. In this role, she provided clients with creative financing and banking solutions, engagement and access to SVB networks and general business advisory services.

Emma earned her bachelor’s degree in government and global studies from Colby College.

She has continued her education at Georgetown University and Sciences Po in France. Emma is fluent in French and lives in San Francisco.

Rashmi Gopinath is a General Partner at B Capital Group where she leads enterprise software investments in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, devops, crypto, and AI/ML. She brings over two decades of experience investing and operating in cutting-edge enterprise technologies. She led B Capital’s investments in over 22 companies such as DataRobot, FalconX, Clari, Phenom People, Synack, Innovaccer, Labelbox, Fabric, 6Sense, Highspot, Pendo, Starburst, OwnBackup, Figment, 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, Contrast Security, Frame, UnravelData, Incorta, 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 M.B.A. from Northwestern University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Mumbai in India.

Simon Keyes has been with Silicon Valley Bank for 8.5 years and is currently a Director on the Enterprise Software Coverage team with Silicon Valley Bank in New York City. He serves companies from the seed stage to growth stage, and his role is to leverage the broader SVB platform on behalf of his clients. This includes banking services, debt financing (venture debt, growth capital, working capital, asset-based financing and mezzanine debt), access to SVB’s Private Bank, proprietary industry data, and connections to investors. He holds BA in Art History from Middlebury College, and outside of work he enjoys running and bird watching around New York City.