Arjun Gupta
Chief Executive Officer chez CALIENT Technologies, Inc.
Profil
Arjun is the Founder & Managing Partner of TeleSoft Partners, a venture capital firm which he founded in 1996.
Over the last 25 years, he has invested directly or indirectly in over 250+ private technology companies, resulting in 150+ acquisitions and IPOs to date (including 60+ unicorns).
Arjun has raised cumulative capital commitments over $1+ billion.
He was on the Forbes Midas List of the Top-100 Venture Capital Investors in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
Earlier in his career, Arjun was a strategy consultant for high tech clients with McKinsey & Company (for Apple, AT&T and PacTel).
His most formative projects were the go-to-market project for Qualcomm CDMA vs TDMA, and the spinoff of General Magic from Apple.
Prior to business school, Arjun was an operating systems software engineer and product specialist for new product introductions at Tektronix, Inc. covering North America, UK, Germany and Japan.
In 2001, Arjun launched the AG Family Foundation.
The foundation or Arjun personally have supported over 100+ projects in America, India and Africa.
In 2013, Arjun joined a new ownership group to purchase the Sacramento Kings NBA basketball team and to help revitalize the city of Sacramento.
Arjun is a passionate outdoorsman.
He was a Liaison Officer with the Indian Mountaineering Foundation and has climbed with 6 Himalayan expeditions to peaks over 20,000 feet.
He was a member of the 100th Anniversary Ski Expeditions to the North Pole and to the South Pole.
Based on his work in conservation over the last 30+ years, Arjun was elected a Fellow of the Explorer’s Club (USA) and a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society (UK).
FAO of the UN, appointed Arjun a UN Mountain Partnership Ambassador.
Postes actifs de Arjun Gupta
| Sociétés | Poste | Début |
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TeleSoft Partners
 TeleSoft Partners Investment ManagersFinance TeleSoft Partners (Telesoft Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Arjun Gupta. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Founder | 11/08/2009 |
Validity Sensors, Inc.
 Validity Sensors, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Validity Sensors, Inc. provides intelligent fingerprint sensing solutions. The company was founded in November 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
VoiceObjects, Inc.
 VoiceObjects, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services VoiceObjects, Inc. provides voice application management systems. The company was founded by David B. Becker, Karl-Heinz Land and Michael Codini in 2001 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Education.com, Inc.
 Education.com, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Education.com, Inc. provides online education information to parents with kids in preschools and colleges. It offers various educational games, including preschool, kindergarten, first grade, math, and reading games, and worksheets, workbooks, and activities for preschool, kindergarten, middle school, and high school, as well as for first, second, third, fourth, and fifth grades. The company was founded by Ronald F. Fortune, Todd Schwartz, and Danielle Wood in 2006 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
The Aspen Institute, Inc.
 The Aspen Institute, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services The Aspen Institute operates an institution that fosters leadership skills and open-minded dialogue. It conducts seminars, policy programs, conferences and leadership development initiatives, the Institute and its international partners seek to promote nonpartisan inquiry. The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Washington, DC. | Director/Board Member | - |
Nexant, Inc.
 Nexant, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Nexant, Inc. provides intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions. It is a globally recognized software, consulting and services leader that provides innovative solutions to utilities, energy enterprises, chemical companies and government entities worldwide. The firm provides intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions that advance electric power grid and alternative energy services. Nexant was founded by Basem Y. Sarandah on January 1, 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Chairman | - |
CALIENT Technologies, Inc.
 CALIENT Technologies, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology CALIENT Technologies, Inc. manufactures photonic optical circuit switching systems. Its systems enable dynamic optical layer optimization in next generation datacenters and software defined networks. The firm designs and fabricates its systems using state of the art MEMS equipment in its own fabrication facility. The company was founded by Daniel Blumenthal, Charles M. Corbalis and John E. Bowers in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, CA. | Chief Executive Officer | - |
| The Arjun Gupta Family Foundation | President | - |
SalesHood, Inc.
 SalesHood, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services SalesHood, Inc. engages in the development of sales enablement platform. It offers learning, coaching, selling, analytics, sales process, onboarding, and partner enablement. The company was founded by Elay Cohen and Arthur Do in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
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Formation de Arjun Gupta
| Washington State University | Graduate Degree |
| St. Stephens College | Undergraduate Degree |
| Stanford Graduate School of Business | Masters Business Admin |
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Sociétés liées
| Sociétés cotées | 1 |
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| L&T TECHNOLOGY SERVICES LIMITED | Industrial Services |
| Entreprise privées | 23 |
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Tektronix, Inc.
 Tektronix, Inc. Electronic Equipment/InstrumentsElectronic Technology Tektronix, Inc. provides test, measurement and monitoring solutions. It provides services for the communications, computer, semiconductor industries, as well as for the military, aerospace, consumer electronics and education sectors. The firm also assists its clients in designing, building, deploying and managing global communications networks, computing and advanced technologies. The company was founded by Melvin Jack Murdock, Glenn Leland, Miles Tippery and Charles Howard Vollum in 1946 and is headquartered in Beaverton, OR. | Electronic Technology |
LiteScape Technologies, Inc.
 LiteScape Technologies, Inc. Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications LiteScape Technologies, Inc. develops unified communications applications. Its products include OnCast, CallTrackPro, Secure Profile Management and SmartRoute. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Communications |
Aarohi Communications, Inc.
 Aarohi Communications, Inc. Computer PeripheralsElectronic Technology Aarohi Communications, Inc. develops intelligent data center networking components and data management solutions. It offers FabricStream, the enabling technology for a new generation of intelligent storage networking platforms that will simplify enterprise storage management and enable heterogeneous storage consolidation. The company was founded by Shanti Subbaraman, Ashwini Choudhary, Amar Kapadia, Mukund Chavan, and Sriram Rupanagunta in 2001 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA. | Electronic Technology |
VoiceObjects, Inc.
VoiceObjects, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services VoiceObjects, Inc. provides voice application management systems. The company was founded by David B. Becker, Karl-Heinz Land and Michael Codini in 2001 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA. | Technology Services |
McKinsey & Co., Inc.
 McKinsey & Co., Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Commercial Services |
Rocky Mountain Institute
 Rocky Mountain Institute Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Rocky Mountain Institute is a non-profit organization that transforms energy use to clean and secure low carbon future. It engages in businesses, communities, institutions, and entrepreneurs to accelerate the adoption of market-based solutions that cost-effectively shift from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables. It examining and facilitating market-based technology that will play a role in addressing the climate problem. The company was founded by Amory Lovin in 1982 and is headquartered in Basalt, CO. | Commercial Services |
Nexant, Inc.
Nexant, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Nexant, Inc. provides intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions. It is a globally recognized software, consulting and services leader that provides innovative solutions to utilities, energy enterprises, chemical companies and government entities worldwide. The firm provides intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions that advance electric power grid and alternative energy services. Nexant was founded by Basem Y. Sarandah on January 1, 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Technology Services |
CALIENT Technologies, Inc.
CALIENT Technologies, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology CALIENT Technologies, Inc. manufactures photonic optical circuit switching systems. Its systems enable dynamic optical layer optimization in next generation datacenters and software defined networks. The firm designs and fabricates its systems using state of the art MEMS equipment in its own fabrication facility. The company was founded by Daniel Blumenthal, Charles M. Corbalis and John E. Bowers in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, CA. | Electronic Technology |
CreekPath Systems, Inc.
 CreekPath Systems, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Creekpath Systems, Inc. provided storage management solutions. The company was engaged in providing IT asset management and IT service management software and services for storage infrastructures to large IT organizations and service providers. The company was founded in 1999 and was headquartered in Longmont, CO. | Technology Services |
TeleSoft Partners
TeleSoft Partners Investment ManagersFinance TeleSoft Partners (Telesoft Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Arjun Gupta. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Finance |
Knowledge Adventure, Inc.
 Knowledge Adventure, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Knowledge Adventure, Inc. develops, publishes and distributes multimedia educational software for use in both schools and homes. The company was founded by William T. Gross, Lawrence S. Gross, and Rick Gibson on June 25, 1991 and is headquartered in La Crescenta, CA. | Technology Services |
Validity Sensors, Inc.
Validity Sensors, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Validity Sensors, Inc. provides intelligent fingerprint sensing solutions. The company was founded in November 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Commercial Services |
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
 Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. provides environmental protection services. It provides solutions to environmental threats such as acid rain, dying rivers, over-logged forests, and ozone depletion. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Commercial Services |
The Aspen Institute, Inc.
The Aspen Institute, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services The Aspen Institute operates an institution that fosters leadership skills and open-minded dialogue. It conducts seminars, policy programs, conferences and leadership development initiatives, the Institute and its international partners seek to promote nonpartisan inquiry. The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Washington, DC. | Commercial Services |
LogLogic, Inc.
 LogLogic, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services LogLogic transforms the data customers have into the data they need, whether it's to achieve compliance, mitigate risk, manage security threats, or monitor operational performance. LogLogic provides enterprise-class log management infrastructure and analysis that enables customers to collect, centralize and analyze their IT data in a way that is both easy-to-use and cost-effective. They provide business intelligence within minutes, not days, giving customers back the time and insight that matter most to the business. | Technology Services |
Education.com, Inc.
Education.com, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Education.com, Inc. provides online education information to parents with kids in preschools and colleges. It offers various educational games, including preschool, kindergarten, first grade, math, and reading games, and worksheets, workbooks, and activities for preschool, kindergarten, middle school, and high school, as well as for first, second, third, fourth, and fifth grades. The company was founded by Ronald F. Fortune, Todd Schwartz, and Danielle Wood in 2006 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA. | Commercial Services |
VoiceObjects GmbH
 VoiceObjects GmbH Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services VoiceObjects GmbH provides voice application management systems. The firm's products include enterprise and network edition, analyzer and desktop. The company was founded by Karl-Heinz Land and Michael Codini in 2001 and is headquartered in Cologne, Germany. | Technology Services |
Music Associates of Aspen, Inc.
 Music Associates of Aspen, Inc. Movies/EntertainmentConsumer Services Music Associates of Aspen, Inc. provides music education services. The firm's services include, chamber, opera, contemporary music, master classes, orchestral concerts and lectures. The company was founded by Walter Paepcke and Elizabeth Paepcke in 1949 and headquartered in Aspen, CO. | Consumer Services |
Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. (India)
 Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. (India) Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. is a holding company, which provision of computer programming, consultancy, and related activities. It operates through the following segments: Banking, Financial Services and Insurance; Manufacturing; Energy and Utilities; High–Tech, Media and Entertainment; and CPG, Retail, Pharma and Others. The company was founded on December 23, 1996 and is headquartered Mumbai, India. | Commercial Services |
| The Arjun Gupta Family Foundation | |
Advanced Energy United, Inc.
 Advanced Energy United, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Advanced Energy United, Inc. engages in provision of energy solutions. It offers power and transportation electrification. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Commercial Services |
SalesHood, Inc.
SalesHood, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services SalesHood, Inc. engages in the development of sales enablement platform. It offers learning, coaching, selling, analytics, sales process, onboarding, and partner enablement. The company was founded by Elay Cohen and Arthur Do in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Technology Services |
Telesoft 2020 LP
 Telesoft 2020 LP Investment ManagersFinance Telesoft 2020 LP seeks investment opportunities in companies located in the US. The fund target companies operating in the fields of technology and energy value chain companies. It provides financing for early stage capital requirements. | Finance |
