Arjun Gupta

Arjun Gupta

Chief Executive Officer at CALIENT Technologies, Inc.

53 year
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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.

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Washington State University Graduate Degree
St. Stephens College Undergraduate Degree
Stanford Graduate School of Business Masters Business Admin

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