Arjun Gupta

Arjun Gupta is the Chief Believer and founder of Telesoft Partners, a special situations venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. Over the last twenty five years, he has invested in and helped build over 85 technology companies, of which over 50 companies have been acquired or gone public. Recognizable brands include DocuSign, Salesforce.com, T-Mobile USA and others. Facebook (pre-public) is Arjun’s largest personal investment to date and he has held onto his position. He was on the Forbes Midas List of Top-100 Venture Investors in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. Since 2013, Arjun has been a member of the new ownership group of the Sacramento Kings NBA basketball team.

In 2001, Arjun launched a family foundation to support education, conservation and the performing arts. The foundation has supported over 100 projects in America, India and Africa. Arjun is a Trustee of Aspen Institute and the Aspen Music Festival. He is a co-founder and co-chair of YPO Gold Aspen. Arjun is an avid outdoorsman and has skied to the North Pole and to the South Pole, and was recently appointed a UN Mountain Partnership Ambassador to help with climate change initiatives.

Arjun received his MBA from Stanford University, an MS and BS (Phi Beta Kappa) in computer science from WSU, and a BA (Honors) in economics from St Stephen’s College (India). He is an ALI Fellow at Harvard University and a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. Arjun lives in San Francisco and Aspen.