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Arjun Gupta
Founder & Managing Partner
Arjun Gupta is the Founder & Managing Partner of TeleSoft Partners, a venture capital firm focused on high-tech startups. He has over 20 years of experience working with technology companies in venture capital, consulting and design engineering roles. At TeleSoft, Arjun manages capital commitments of $625+ million and has established Corporate Partnerships with Alltel and Bechtel in the US, Deutsche Telekom in Europe and Comverse in Israel. In 2001, Arjun also started a family foundation to support community projects in education, medical research and the arts.
Over the last thirteen years Arjun has overseen investing in and helping build ~61 private companies, resulting in ~32 mergers & acquisitions and IPOs to date with a combined current market equity valuation or cash equivalent of ~$18 billion (post bubble). Based on the private equity IRR data (disclosed by CalPers, CalSTRS, University of California, University of Michigan, UTIMCO and Washington State) on ~600 private equity funds from 1981-2002, the track record of TeleSoft and its principals has consistently been in the top 10% of the industry. Arjun was ranked by Forbes Magazine in the Top-100 technology venture investors on the 2006 and 2007 Midas List.
Arjun serves on the boards of Calient Networks, Education.com, Knowledge Adventure, LiteScape, LogLogic, Nexant, Validity Sensors and VoiceObjects. Arjun also served on the board of Omnipoint as a private company through its IPO (NASDAQ: OMPT) until its acquisition by VoiceStream for $4+ billion in 1998 (subsequently VoiceStream was acquired by Deutsche Telekom for $50+ billion to form T-Mobile USA). Earlier in his career, Arjun was a Strategy Consultant for high-tech clients with McKinsey, where he led top management projects for Apple, AT&T, AMD, Siemens/ROLM and Vodafone. Prior to McKinsey, Arjun was a Software Engineer with Tektronix.
Arjun received his MBA from Stanford University, a MS and BS in Computer Science, Phi Beta Kappa, from WSU, and a BA (honors) in Economics from St. Stephen's College. He is a Henry Crown Fellow and Trustee of The Aspen Institute, and loves the outdoors.
Full Bio
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Arjun@telesoftvc.com
Investments:
BPL Mobile Communications (Hutchison Max Telecom)
Calix
Cerent (Cisco)
ConvergeNet (Dell)
CoSine Communications (IPO: COSN)
CreekPath Systems (Opsware)
Education.com
Ikanos Communications (IPO: IKAN)
Internet Photonics (Ciena)
iWitness/Zantaz (Autonomy)
Knowledge Adventure
Lara Networks (Cypress)
LiteScape
LogLogic
Matrix Semiconductor (SanDisk)
Omnipoint (IPO & Subsequent Acquisition by VoiceStream)
OSI (IPO & Subsequent Acquisition by Agilent)
Promatory (Nortel)
Tele Atlas NV (PO: TA.AS)
Triton (IPO: TNSI)
Validity Sensors
Vina Technologies (IPO & Subsequent Acquisition by Verilink)
VoiceObjects
VxTel (Intel)
Xambala
Xpedion Design Systems (Agilent)
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