Ajit Gupta

For the Indian cricketer, see Ajit Das Gupta.
Ajit Gupta
Born Ajit Gupta
Nationality Indian
Alma mater Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Occupation Founder
CEO
Children 2
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 is a graduate of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Electrical Engineering Batch of 1984.[4]

Career

Gupta was the 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 founded in 1999 – Speedera Networks. Speedera became one of the fastest growing private companies in Silicon Valley and in the North American technology industry in five years, as ranked by both Deloitte & Touche and PricewaterhouseCoopers. In 2004, he successfully launched Speedera India in Bangalore to drive the company’s accelerated global expansion. Speedera was acquired in 2005 by Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) for a stock transaction worth more than $500 million one year later.

After Speedera, Gupta founded AAyuja,[10] a technology sales acceleration company, serving as its CEO. He is currently Chairman of the company. Gupta is 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 is 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]

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.
  3. ↑ "Akamai to Buy Speedera". The New York Times. March 17, 2005.
  4. ↑ Founders and Board – IITRHF. Iitr-heritagefund.org. Retrieved on 2016-10-16.
  5. ↑ "Startup takes WAN optimization to the clouds". The Register. September 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.
  10. ↑ Management Team. Aayuja.com. Retrieved on 2016-10-16.
  11. ↑ Team | Background Verifications | Background Checks. JantaKhoj.com. Retrieved on 2016-10-16.
  12. ↑ Jantakhoj.com lists records of nearly 40 percent of Indian population. In.news.yahoo.com (2010-10-07). Retrieved on 2016-10-16.
  13. ↑
  14. ↑ "Aryaka Wins Multiple Accolades from the 2012 Golden Bridge Business Awards". CDN Advisor. Oct 8, 2012.
  15. ↑ "Aryaka Named as Cool Vendor 2011". TMCnet. April 29, 2011.
  16. ↑ "The Structure 50: The Top 50 Cloud Innovators". GigaOM. May 18, 2011.
  17. ↑ "Hot Emerging Vendors". CRN. June 27, 2011.
  18. ↑ "GigaOM Structure 2011". GigaOM. June 2011.
  19. ↑ "Emerging Cloud Computing Business Models". TechWeb. March 2011.
  20. ↑ "TiECON 2011". TiECON. May 2011.
  21. ↑ "Roorkee Heritage Fund Board Members". IIT.
  22. ↑ "Speedera Notes Record Web Traffic Spikes". Converge Digest. Jan 18, 2005.

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