# Gopakumar Balakrishnan > Gopakumar Balakrishnan is a startup investor in Melbourne. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Location: Melbourne, United States - Last updated: Oct 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gopab Gopakumar Balakrishnan is a startup investor in Melbourne. Gopa co-founded Socialtrait.ai, a one-of-its-kind AI platform that lets users foresee the performance of concepts and creatives even before they are posted live, making it a unique Corporate Strategy dashboard, besides being a game-changing MarTech tool. The start-up is gaining lot of traction in the market with customers comprising of enterprisefirms, brand marketers and digital agencies. At Socialtrait, Gopa currently oversees operations, enables industry connections, channel partners and facilitates customer acquisition, besides being involved in the company's strategic direction.Gopa has been in the Information Technology domain for over 20 years, consulting and managing enterprise applications for top global organizations. With varied responsibilities and leadership roles at companies like IBM and Schneider Electric along his career path, he moved to management consulting few years back.In the recent past, as proprietor of Ausind Business Solutions, he provided cost-effective technology solutions for small and medium business (SMB) firms. Although his early expertise has been in ERP applications (SAP in particular) and delivery management, he has recently overseen teams working in AI, Data Analytics, Digital Transformation and "Intelligent Enterprise" technologies like Machine Learning, IoT and Blockchain.Over the past few years, he provisioned "IT right-shoring" avenues for SMB firms in Australia, helping them cut costs and scale up. Partnering with University Research teams and certain overseas firms who specialize in technology services for Energy, Retail and Healthcare sectors, he facilitated smart solutions in the Australian tech context.As an aside, Sports and Yoga energizes him, and he recommends the same energy-health tool to others! :) ## Contacts 5 contacts available for Gopakumar Balakrishnan: work email, personal email, work phone, personal phone and socials. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-email/gopakumar-balakrishnan?utm_source=investor_profile ## FAQ ### How do I contact Gopakumar Balakrishnan? Public channels for Gopakumar Balakrishnan include LinkedIn. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox. ### Is Shizune's investor data accurate? Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co