Arjun Gupta
Founder @ TeleSoft Partners
Aspen, United States
Arjun Gupta is a contrarian investor with extraordinary persistence and belief. He is the founder of TeleSoft Partners, a special situations venture capital firm focused on high-tech and energy value chain companies. He has over 20 years of experience working with technology companies in venture capital, consulting and design engineering roles. AtTeleSoft, Arjun manages capital commitments of $625+ million and has established Corporate Partnerships with Alltel, Bechtel, Deutsche Telekom, Nexant, Salesforce.com, and Symphony. In 2001, Arjun also started a foundation (www.arjungupta.org) to support community projects in education, medical research and the arts. The foundation has helped provide partial funding for about 90 projects to date. He is a member of the Stanford Business School Management Board, Trustee of The Aspen Institute, Trustee of the Rocky Mountain Institute, Officer of the Young President’s Organization (YPO) Colorado Chapter, Trustee of Natural Resources Defense Council, and Member of the Board of Governors and President of the Western Regional Association of the National Association of the Small Business Investor Alliance (SBIA).Over the past sixteen years, Arjun has overseen investing in and helping build ~61 private companies, resulting in ~37 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, 2007, 2008, 2009 Midas Lists.Arjun serves on the boards of Calient, Nexant and Validity Sensors. He also served on the board of Omnipoint as a private company through its IPO, 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 Technology 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 business school, he was an operating systems Software Engineer with Tektronix.In 2013, Arjun partnered with other investors to purchase the Sacramento Kings, a National Basketball Association franchise.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
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Industries Arjun Gupta invests in
Stages Arjun Gupta invests in
Countries Arjun Gupta invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 2 (14%)
- Finance 2 (14%)
- Software 2 (14%)
- Mobile Payments 2 (14%)
- Financial Services 2 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (36%)
- Seed 1 (7%)
- Series B 1 (7%)
- Series D 1 (7%)
- Series E 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 7 (50%)
- Mexico 1 (7%)
Investments
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Kapital
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Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees | $8.6M / Seed / Apr 14, 2022 | |
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Kapital
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Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees | $8.6M / Series A / Apr 14, 2022 | |
Akridata
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Akridata solves AI Data Logistics challenges of Autonomous Vehicles. Its cloud-managed, scale-out platform spans edge (high speed ingest, prep and prioritization) to core (tiered storage and access). Benefits include global data access (anywhere, anytime), shorter training times, and upto 10x lower storage costs. Backed by Accel and Menlo Ventures. | $15M / Series A / Oct 05, 2021 | |
GH-UAE
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CircleIt, available in the App Store and Google Play, was inspired by the story of a unique gift left from beyond the grave. CircleIt was built to replicate this unique gift – a gift that continually reminds his family of his love and allows him to be there to celebrate milestones and inspire future generations even after he’s gone. Shaikh sharesthat “CircleIt was built for my mother to help carry on his legacy. Built so that others can experience the joy it has given all of us. Built in memory of my father, Arif Shaikh.”CircleIt, founded in 2018, is a Chicago-based startup with 29 employees. Shaikh previously worked at Salesforce, leaving the company mid 2020, to dedicate his life to delivering CircleIt to the world. Since its app launch, CircleIt has attracted interest from Silicon Valley investors who believe in the importance of legacy preservation in a secure, private environment. So far, they have raised $ 7.1M in funding. For more information, visit https://circleit.com/ | $5.1M / Series A / Sep 01, 2021 | |
SalesHood
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Founded in 2013—and recently recognized as one of the Top 50 Sales Products of 2022 by G2— SalesHood is the leading all-in-one sales enablement platform used by hyper-growth companies to boost sales performance. SalesHood is proven to reduce time to ramp, lift quota attainment and accelerate sales velocity. Companies like Drift, Demandbase,Bombora, Omada Health, Sage, Seagate, RingCentral, Tanium, Trinet, and Yext use SalesHood to realize fast revenue outcomes with 100% virtual training, coaching and selling - at scale. | $1.8M / Series A / May 05, 2017 | |
Calient Technologies
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Calient provides high-density 3D MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical circuit switching for software-defined networks and data centers. Its optical circuit switching technology is used by service providers, cloud computing, content delivery, and government networks. This offers businesses with adaptive photonic switching systems thatenable dynamic optical layer optimization in software-defined networks and data centers. The company’s 3D-MEMS switches enable dynamic optical-layer sharing, optimization, and automation of high-performance test, compute, and network resources in data centers, optical transport networks, and DevOps test automation facilities.Calient Technologies was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, California. | $14.7M / Mar 26, 2015 | |
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Calient Technologies
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Calient provides high-density 3D MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical circuit switching for software-defined networks and data centers. Its optical circuit switching technology is used by service providers, cloud computing, content delivery, and government networks. This offers businesses with adaptive photonic switching systems thatenable dynamic optical layer optimization in software-defined networks and data centers. The company’s 3D-MEMS switches enable dynamic optical-layer sharing, optimization, and automation of high-performance test, compute, and network resources in data centers, optical transport networks, and DevOps test automation facilities.Calient Technologies was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, California. | $12.5M / Apr 08, 2014 | |
Validity Sensors
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Founded in 2000, and headquartered in San Jose, California, Validity is the world leader in Natural ID™ authentication, providing fingerprint sensor solutions with the highest levels of performance, security, cost-effectiveness, and design flexibility.Validity’s Natural ID solutions provide an ideal platform for addressing the explosive growth inmobile payment transactions and cloud-based services. Passwords and PINs are ineffective at meeting the needs of end users and service providers as they're either too easy to hack or too hard to remember. Natural ID provides a simple and effective way to optimize usability while providing strong security.Natural ID authenticates a user by their unique human characteristics such as fingerprint, voice, and face. Of these, fingerprints have been proven to provide the best combination of effectiveness, cost, and usability. | $10M / Series E / Oct 19, 2012 | |
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Validity Sensors
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Founded in 2000, and headquartered in San Jose, California, Validity is the world leader in Natural ID™ authentication, providing fingerprint sensor solutions with the highest levels of performance, security, cost-effectiveness, and design flexibility.Validity’s Natural ID solutions provide an ideal platform for addressing the explosive growth inmobile payment transactions and cloud-based services. Passwords and PINs are ineffective at meeting the needs of end users and service providers as they're either too easy to hack or too hard to remember. Natural ID provides a simple and effective way to optimize usability while providing strong security.Natural ID authenticates a user by their unique human characteristics such as fingerprint, voice, and face. Of these, fingerprints have been proven to provide the best combination of effectiveness, cost, and usability. | $12.6M / Series D / Jul 28, 2010 | |
Home-Account
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Home Account Inc., is a mortgage-finding service designed to help America's 75 million borrowers save money and make smart mortgage choices. The service grades and analyzes borrowers' current mortgages, presents scenarios to improve their financial situation, and then matches each borrower to the best mortgage options in the market. | $1M / Series A / Apr 16, 2009 | |
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Co-Investors
About TeleSoft Partners
TeleSoft Partners provides value-added capital for technology, communications and energy value chain companies. Our focus is to help entrepreneurs benefit from our knowledge, contacts and experience -- to help you Make-It-Happen. Over the last two decades, TeleSoft has helped build over 75 companies, of which over 50 companies have been acquiredor gone public.
TeleSoft Partners Contacts
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Arjun Gupta
Founder
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Alan Foster
Managing Director
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Alan Howard
Chief Financial Officer
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Bruce Cohen
Consultant
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Chris LeBlanc
Vice President
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What does Arjun Gupta invest in?
Arjun Gupta invests primarily in FinTech, Finance and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Arjun Gupta last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Arjun Gupta closed in Apr 2022. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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