Arjun Gupta

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Arjun Gupta

Arjun Gupta (born in India) is a successful venture capitalist in the Silicon Valley. He was ranked in the Top-100 Technology Venture Investors on the 2006, 2007, and 2008 Midas List by Forbes Magazine. Arjun is the founder of TeleSoft Partners, a community foundation, and editor of TeleSoft VC News Site

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[edit] Early Life and Education

After receiving a BA Honors in economics from St. Stephen's College (India), Arjun migrated to U.S. as an exchange student. He received a BS and a MS in Computer Science from WSU, Phi Beta Kappa, and a MBA from Stanford. He is a Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute.

[edit] Career

Prior to Stanford business school, Arjun was a software engineer with Tektronix. After graduating from Stanford, he was a strategy consultant for high-tech clients at McKinsey, where he led top management projects for Apple, AirTouch, AMD, Siemens, and ROLM. Post McKinsey, he was a Vice President of The Chatterjee Group, an investment advisor to George Soros. In 1996 he founded TeleSoft Partners. Over the last fifteen years, Arjun has overseen investing in and helping build 60+ companies, of which 30+ have been acquired or have gone public, and approximately 15 companies are still private.

[edit] Community Foundation

In 2001, Arjun started a foundation to support projects in education, medical research, performing arts and other community endeavors. The foundation has supported numerous projects in the United States, India and Africa. Some of the projects the foundation has supported to date are Gift of Life, WildiZe Foundation,Global Fund for Women and Friends of New Orleans many others.


[edit] Personal

Arjun is an outdoor enthusiast and enjoys hiking, skiing, and scuba. He has climbed with six Himalayan expeditions to peaks over 20,000 feet high, and was awarded the Grindlay's Bank Mountain Scholarship. He splits his time between San Francisco and Aspen.

Unfortunately, during 2006-08, Arjun has been going through an acrimonious divorce.

[edit] Accomplishments

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[edit] Editor TeleSoft VC News


[edit] Helping Build Companies

[edit] Corporate Boards

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