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Naren Gupta

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Prior to Nexus, Naren Co-founded Integrated Systems Inc (ISI), a leading embedded software company in 1980 and took it public in 1990. He served as ISI’s President/CEO till 1994 and as its Chairman till ISI merged with WindRiver Systems in 2000. He subsequently served as CEO and Vice-Chairman of Wind River Systems.

Naren has been an active investor for the last ten years. Among his investments, several companies had successful public exits, including Digital Link, E-Tek Dynamics, Numerical Technology and RightNow. Exits through acquisitions include Speedera Networks.

Naren holds a B. Tech. and is a recipient of President’s Gold Medal from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi; an MS from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in engineering. Naren has received distinguished alumni awards from Caltech and IIT and was elected a Fellow of the IEEE.

In addition to Wind River, Naren serves on the boards Tibco Software, Red Hat Inc. and the Community Foundation of Silicon Valley. He is also a founding member of TiE and is an active advisor to Indian entrepreneurs worldwide.

Recent Milestones

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  Naren Gupta invested in Treasure Data. (9/28/12)
  Posted 9/28/12 at 6:42pm via techcrunch.com
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  Naren Gupta added a position as Advisory Board at Cendana Capital. (1/1/10)
  Posted 4/7/13 at 6:50pm
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  Naren Gupta added a position as Director at Cloud.com. (9/1/09)
  Posted 6/17/10 at 9:29am
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  Naren Gupta added a position as Director at Gluster.
  Posted 5/3/11 at 4:03am
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  Naren Gupta added a position as MD & Co-Founder at Nexus Venture Partners.
  Posted 11/24/08 at 1:23am
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  Naren Gupta added a position as Director at Red Hat.
  Posted 11/5/10 at 8:15pm

Investments

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1. Treasure Data Launches Cloud-Based Data Warehouse With Investment From Ruby Creator Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto (techcrunch.com) [edit]