25 Facts About Umang Gupta

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Umang Gupta was an Indian-American entrepreneur and Silicon Valley, California, executive credited with writing the first business plan for Oracle Corporation.

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Umang Gupta was the founder of enterprise software company Gupta Technologies and was later the CEO of Keynote Systems.

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Gupta was born on August 23,1949, in Patiala, the son of Ramnika Gupta and Ved Prakash Gupta.

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Umang Gupta's mother was a politician and activist, while his father worked with the Indian labor ministry.

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Umang Gupta was raised by his father, Mr Ved Prakash Gupta after his parents separated when he was a young child.

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Umang Gupta obtained his Bachelor of Technology degree in chemical engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1971.

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In 1996, Umang Gupta received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT Kanpur.

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Umang Gupta was credited with writing the company's first business plan in 1981 and was eventually promoted to vice president of the company's microcomputer products division.

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Umang Gupta remained in the role until his departure from the company in 1984.

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Umang Gupta was the first executive who had worked under Larry Ellison to start his own company.

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Umang Gupta Technologies was the first Indian-run enterprise software company to go public on Nasdaq.

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Umang Gupta was chairman and chief executive officer of Keynote Systems from December 1997.

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Umang Gupta oversaw the company as it went public in 1999.

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Umang Gupta was able to negotiate the merger between Keynote and Vividence in 2004 after meeting Vividence CEO Peter Watkins at a poker game.

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Umang Gupta served on the board of Mosaix, a company that developed call-center software, from 1997 to 1999, before it was sold to Lucent Technologies.

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Umang Gupta developed the Reading Racer app with a team including Carnegie Mellon graduates Melanie Lam and Rodrigo Cano and launched a foundation to continue support for Reading Racer.

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Umang Gupta began investing in educational technology companies such as Front Row Education.

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In 2000, Umang Gupta was honored with the Shreyas Mavanoor Foundation Award for Civic Leadership and Philanthropy.

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Umang Gupta served on the board of the Peninsula Community Foundation, California, which later merged with another foundation to form the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the largest community foundation in the United States.

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Umang Gupta was a co-founder of the IIT Kanpur Foundation and served as Global Board Chairman of PanIIT, the alumni organization of over 200,000 alumni of the Indian Institutes of Technology.

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Umang Gupta participated as an angel investor and advisor to various Silicon Valley technology companies.

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Umang Gupta was a guest contributor to The New York Times.

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Umang Gupta was married to Ruth Umang Gupta, an immigrant from the United Kingdom.

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Umang Gupta died on April 19,2022, at his home in San Mateo, California, at the age of 72.

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Umang Gupta was diagnosed with terminal bladder cancer more than two years earlier.

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