Gautam Gupta
Co-Founder and General Partner @ A*
San Francisco, United States
Gautam Gupta is a seed investor at A* in San Francisco focused on Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence. Gautam Gupta is the Co-Founder and General Partner of A* Capital. Gautam holds a MBA at Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management and had his bachelor's degree in computer engineering at Nanyang Technological University.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Gautam Gupta invests in
Stages Gautam Gupta invests in
Countries Gautam Gupta invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $3M–$25M
- Series A
- $21M–$24M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 4 (50%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (50%)
- Internet 2 (25%)
- Software 2 (25%)
- SaaS 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (63%)
- Series A 2 (25%)
- Series C 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 6 (75%)
- Israel 1 (13%)
- Ireland 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| NavigateAI is an AI copilot for the physical world specifically designed for construction and field service teams to help them complete projects faster, with higher quality, and at lower costs. | $25M / Seed / May 26, 2026 | ||
| Decagon creates generative AI for building customer service agents that work much more like humans and its platform gives customer support team leaders more visibility into their automated customer experience operations | $131M / Series C / Jun 23, 2025 | ||
| Multiply Mortgage a modern mortgage platform with a novel distribution channel of working with companies to provide access to better mortgage rates as an employee benefit, enabling their employees to afford more home. | $23.5M / Series A / Mar 19, 2025 | ||
| Fifteenth an AI-powered platform integrates with Workday and other major platforms and provides tax solutions tailored for individuals with complex financial portfolios. | $8.3M / Seed / Feb 10, 2025 | ||
| Aligned Marketplace connects self-insured employers with independent advanced primary and specialty care providers. | $3M / Seed / Jan 27, 2025 | ||
| AI-accelerated Participant Relationship Management (PRM) for Clinical Research | $4.9M / Seed / Jan 07, 2025 | ||
| At Munch, we envision a world where every business, regardless of size, has the power to amplify its voice and achieve impactful results through social media. Our platform transforms how companies capture customer attention—eliminating complexity and delivering tangible business outcomes. Since launching our first version of the product in 2023,we’ve been serving over one million of businesses and established ourselves as a leader in AI-driven automation for social media marketing. From creating captivating content and intelligently distributing it across platforms to delivering actionable insights and fostering customer relationships, we enable brands to thrive in the digital age.Our mission is to eliminate the complexity of social media management, empowering businesses to focus on what they do best while our AI handles the rest. | $7.2M / Seed / Nov 21, 2023 | ||
| Fonoa is a tax technology company that develops a global tax automation platform for digital businesses, marketplaces, SaaS providers, and multinational enterprises. The company helps organizations manage indirect tax compliance by automating processes such as tax calculation, tax ID validation, invoicing, e-invoicing, reporting, and tax returnpreparation across multiple jurisdictions. Its platform is designed to reduce the complexity of complying with constantly changing VAT, GST, sales tax, and other indirect tax regulations worldwide. The company provides a modular, API-first platform that integrates with existing finance, ERP, payment, and operational systems. Its solutions enable businesses to automatically determine the correct tax treatment for transactions, validate customer and supplier tax IDs, generate locally compliant invoices, and meet country-specific e-invoicing and digital reporting requirements. Fonoa supports tax operations across more than 190 jurisdictions and processes hundreds of millions of transactions annually. | $20.5M / Series A / Nov 22, 2021 |
Co-Investors
About A*
A* is a venture capital firm.
A* Contacts
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Bennett Siegel
Co-Founder and General Partner
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Gautam Gupta
Co-Founder and General Partner
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Vikram Ramakrishnan
Partner
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FAQ
What does Gautam Gupta invest in?
Gautam Gupta invests primarily in Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Gautam Gupta invest in?
Gautam Gupta typically joins rounds of $3M–$25M at Seed and $21M–$24M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Gautam Gupta's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Gautam Gupta took part in.
How do I contact Gautam Gupta?
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When did Gautam Gupta last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Gautam Gupta closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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.
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