Ajit Gupta was a Silicon-Valley based entrepreneur and the founder of Aryaka, AAyuja, JantaKhoj, and Speedera Networks.
11 Facts About Ajit Gupta
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Ajit Gupta holds 21 technology patents for Internet content delivery and global traffic management.
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Ajit Gupta graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in Electrical Engineering Batch of 1984.
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Ajit Gupta was survived by his wife and two children.
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Ajit Gupta's first successful venture was a company he co-founded in 1999 - Speedera Networks.
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Ajit Gupta was the Chairman and Founder at JantaKhoj, an India-based premium background verification service provider, which had built the first and the largest people search engine on Indians.
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Ajit Gupta won The Big Idea Award at The Innovator Awards 2013.
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Ajit Gupta was recognized by the Golden Bridge Awards for leadership and innovation in October 2012 for launching Aryaka's WAN Optimization as-a-Service offering.
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Ajit Gupta was named a GigaOM Structure 50 Company in May 2011 and CRN recognized Aryaka as a "Hot Emerging Vendor" in June 2011.
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Ajit Gupta has spoken at conferences around the world, including GigaOM Structure 2011, Cloud Connect, Red Herring, Kagan Digital Media Summits, Datacenter Ventures events, and Streaming Media.
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In 2003, Ajit Gupta established a philanthropy program for Speedera called "Giving Back", which provided free Internet infrastructure services to non-profit organizations including Unicef.