Ajit Gupta is a Silicon-Valley based entrepreneur and the founder of Aryaka, AAyuja, JantaKhoj[1], and Speedera Networks. He holds 12 technology patents for Internet content delivery and global traffic management.
Gupta's company Aryaka has been recognized by Gartner, Inc. as a ‘Cool Vendor’ for ‘Enterprise Communications and Network Services’ in April 2011. [2] The company was also named a GigaOM Structure 50 Company in May 2011[3] and CRN recognized Aryaka as a "Hot Emerging Vendor" [4] in June 2011. Gupta has spoken at conferences around the world, including GigaOM Structure 2011,[5] Cloud Connect,[6][7]Red Herring, Kagan Digital Media Summits, Datacenter Ventures events, and Streaming Media. He is a founding board member of the IIT-Roorkee Heritage Fund.[8]
Gupta is the founder, president and CEO of Aryaka, a cloud-based WAN Optimization and application acceleration company. Founded in 2008, and headquartered in Milpitas, CA with offices in Bangalore, India, Aryaka employs more than one hundred people worldwide.[9] Gupta and his team raised over $29 million in two rounds of funding from Trinity Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Nexus Venture Partners.[10][11][12]
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.
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.[13]
After Speedera, Gupta founded AAyuja, 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, an India-based, comprehensive people search engine and background verification service.