Ajit Gupta

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Ajit Gupta
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Born
Ajit Kumar Gupta

September 12, 1961
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
DiedOctober 7, 2016 (aged 55)
Fremont, California, U.S.
NationalityIndian
Alma mater Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Occupation(s) Founder
CEO
SpouseSeema Gupta
ChildrenVarun Gupta
Juhi Gupta
Website www.aryaka.com

Ajit Gupta was a Silicon-Valley based entrepreneur [1] and the founder of Aryaka, AAyuja, JantaKhoj, [2] and Speedera Networks. [3] He holds 21 technology patents for Internet content delivery and global traffic management. Ajit Gupta graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in Electrical Engineering Batch of 1984. [4]

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Ajit Gupta died on October 7, 2016. He was survived by his wife (also an IIT-Roorkee graduate) and two children.[ citation needed ]

Career

Gupta was a founder of Aryaka, a cloud-based WAN Optimization and application acceleration company. Founded in 2009, and headquartered in Milpitas, CA with offices in Bangalore, India, Aryaka employs more than one hundred and fifty people worldwide. [5] Gupta and his team have raised $59.5 million USD in four rounds of funding from InterWest Partners, Presidio Ventures, a Sumitomo Corporation Company, Trinity Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Nexus Venture Partners. [6] [7] [8] [9]

Gupta's first successful venture was a company he co-founded in 1999 - Speedera Networks. Speedera was acquired in 2005 by Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM).[ citation needed ]

After Speedera, Gupta founded AAyuja, [10] a technology sales acceleration company, serving as its CEO. He was Chairman of the company. Gupta was also the Chairman and Founder at JantaKhoj, [11] an India-based premium background verification service provider, which had also built the first and the largest people search engine on Indians. [12]

Gupta was a notable alumni of the Boys' High School & College (Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh), (BHS), an independent school in Allahabad, India.

Honors

Gupta won The Big Idea Award [13] (for the most disruptive business model in the past 12–18 months) at The Innovator Awards 2013. Gupta was recognized by the Golden Bridge Awards [14] for leadership and innovation in October 2012 for launching Aryaka's WAN Optimization as-a-Service offering. Gartner, Inc. recognized his company Aryaka as a ‘Cool Vendor’ for ‘Enterprise Communications and Network Services’ in April 2011. [15] The company was also named a GigaOM Structure 50 Company in May 2011 [16] and CRN recognized Aryaka as a "Hot Emerging Vendor" [17] in June 2011. Gupta has spoken at conferences around the world, including GigaOM Structure 2011, [18] Cloud Connect, [19] [20] Red Herring, Kagan Digital Media Summits, Datacenter Ventures events, and Streaming Media. A notable alumni of IIT-Roorkee, he is a founding board member of the IIT-Roorkee Heritage Fund. [21]

Philanthropy

In 2003, Gupta established a philanthropy program for Speedera called "Giving Back", which provided free Internet infrastructure services to non-profit organizations including Unicef.org, Goodwill Industries International, Autism.org, and the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Under Gupta's leadership, Speedera assisted UNICEF during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami by providing pro-bono services to enable UNICEF websites to accept contributions and to help victims and families communicate with each other. [22]

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References

  1. ↑ "How Ajit Gupta's Aryaka is Disrupting the Wide Area Network Business". Forbes. 2012-11-19.
  2. ↑ "JantaKhoj Launches People Search for Collection Agencies and Lenders". LiveMango. 2011-09-14. Archived from the original on 2011-10-21. Retrieved 2011-09-14.
  3. ↑ "Akamai to Buy Speedera". The New York Times. March 17, 2005.
  4. ↑ "IIT Roorkee Heritage Fund".
  5. ↑ "Startup takes WAN optimization to the clouds". The Register. Sep 22, 2010.
  6. ↑ "Scrambling to Grow Fast Enough When Customers are Everywhere". The Wall Street Journal. July 17, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Stop Sending the Same Files". The New York Times. Sep 21, 2010.
  8. ↑ "Aryaka Secures $15 Million in Funding". The Wall Street Journal. June 7, 2011.
  9. ↑ "Aryaka Pockets $15 Million in Series B Funding". WiredVC. June 7, 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
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  11. ↑ "Team | Background Verifications | Background Checks | JantaKhoj.com". www.jantakhoj.com.
  12. ↑ "Jantakhoj.com lists records of nearly 40 percent of Indian population". Yahoo News. 2010-10-07.
  13. ↑ "Aryaka CEO Ajit Gupta Wins International Business Forum's Big Idea Award for Revolutionizing Enterprise Networking".
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