Arjun Gupta

Arjun Gupta is the Founder and Managing Director of TeleSoft Partners, a special situations venture capital firm founded in 1996. TeleSoft provides value added capital for Technology, Communications companies and companies in the Energy Value Chain. Over the last fifteen years, TeleSoft and Arjun Gupta have funded and helped build ~61 companies, resulting in ~33 mergers & acquisitions and IPOs to date with a combined cash acquisition price or market equity value equivalent of ~$16 billion at 3/31/2009. TeleSoft continues to help build 11 private companies remaining in the portfolio. At TeleSoft, Arjun manages capital commitments of $625+ million and maintains an extensive network of contacts in the technology, communications and energy ecosystems. Arjun has served in numerous director roles, which currently include: Calient, LiteScape, LogLogic, Nexant and Validity. To help commercialize new technologies, Arjun recruited corporate industry partners including Alltel, Bechtel, Deutsche Telekom’s T-Ventures, Nexant, Salesforce.com, and Symphony Technology Group. Operationally, these partnerships help introduce potential anchor customers and potential distribution channels to TeleSoft portfolio companies.