Founder and Managing Partner, TeleSoft Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Founder and Managing Partner at TeleSoft Partners
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- Vice-President at The Chatterjee Group / George Soros
- Technology Specialist at McKinsey & Company
- Summer Associate, Tech M&A at Morgan Stanley
- Systems Software Engineer, Applications Engineer at Tektronix
- Education
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- Stanford University Graduate School of Business
- Washington State University
- St. Stephen's College
- Mayo College
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Arjun Gupta’s Summary
Arjun is the Founder & Managing Partner of TeleSoft Partners, a venture capital firm focused on high-tech startups. Arjun 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, Gupta also started a family foundation to support community projects in education, medical research and the arts.
Arjun Gupta’s Specialties:
Venture Capital, Building companies, Merger and Acquisition.
Arjun Gupta’s Experience
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Founder and Managing Partner
TeleSoft Partners
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
1996 — Present (13 years)
High-tech venture capital firm. Invested in ~60 companies to date, of which ~30 have been acquired or gone public.
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Vice-President
The Chatterjee Group / George Soros
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
1994 — 1996 (2 years)
Private equity focused on technology companies. Invested in Omnipoint (IPO, acquired by VoiceStream, thereafter acquired by Deutsche Telekom to form T-Mobile USA); OSI (IPO, later acquired by Agilent); BPL Celluar (acquired by Hutchinson).
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Technology Specialist
McKinsey & Company
(Partnership; 5001-10,000 employees; McK; Management Consulting industry)
1989 — 1993 (4 years)
Management and technology strategy consulting. Clients included Apple, ATT, Siemens, Vodaphone. Worked on the Digital Transition project which launched CDMA and Qualcomm.
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Summer Associate, Tech M&A
Morgan Stanley
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MS; Financial Services industry)
1988 — 1988 (less than a year)
Summer job, worked on the successful acquisition of IMO Delaval by Varo
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Systems Software Engineer, Applications Engineer
Tektronix
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TEK; Telecommunications industry)
1984 — 1987 (3 years)
Embedded Operating Systems design for realtime control applications. Later was an Apps Engineer and Market Development Manager covering new product introductions in Silicon Valley, Germany and Japan.
Arjun Gupta’s Education
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business
MBA , 1987 — 1989
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Washington State University
MS and BS , Computer Science , 1980 — 1984
- Activities and Societies:
- Phi Beta Kappa, Lambda Chi Alpha, Neil Hall, Yearbook
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St. Stephen's College
BA (Honors) , Economics , 1977 — 1980
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Mayo College
HS , Science , 1972 — 1977
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Arjun Gupta’s Interests:
Outdoor enthusiast -- Skiing, Hiking, Biking, Travel, Rafting, Photography
Arjun Gupta’s Groups:
The Aspen Institute, Stanford B-school Management Board, Friends of New Orleans (FONO), ALI East Africa Foundation
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Arjun Gupta’s Honors:
Henry Crown Fellow at The Aspen Insitute
Ranked in top 100 Technology investors by Forbes "Midas List" for the years 2006, 2007, and 2008
