Neeraj Gupta is extremely keen on serving to startup firms
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Describing himself as a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Neeraj Gupta made the transfer to Calgary in 2019 and has grow to be an enormous promoter of this metropolis as a spot to reside and conduct his companies.
Gupta was born in northern India, the eldest youngster of his financial institution supervisor father who quickly discovered he had a ardour for know-how. He was accepted into the India Institute of Know-how in Roorkee, famend for its educational excellence, and was acknowledged as high of his class when he graduated with a B.Tech. in metallurgical and materials science.
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That earned him a scholarship for examine for his masters in scientific computing and arithmetic on the KTH Royal Institute of Know-how in Stockholm, Sweden.
On his return dwelling, he was invited to additional his research in Europe at one of many premier engineering and know-how universities on this planet. However whereas ready for his visa, Gupta determined to co-found an organization. He says struggling for 2 years by way of its demise was the perfect MBA lesson he may have ever earned.
Undaunted, realizing he cherished enterprise, he forgot about extra examine and began one other firm in 2006.
This time he was extra cautious and, centered on innovation and mental property, by 2009 he was operating established places of work in India, Sweden and the U.S.
His success led him to grow to be an angel investor. The primary three firms failed, however in a 10-year interval he was investing in and serving to 37 startup firms that did effectively.
Gupta grew to become acknowledged as a complicated, helpful investor, constructing on his seven pillars of information, expertise, area, analysis/IP collaboration, infrastructure, market entry and entry to funding, now advising on cross-border entrepreneurship and innovation to a number of worldwide organizations.
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Gupta is extremely keen on serving to startup firms. There are hundreds in India and he seemed elsewhere for a spot the place he felt he may make an impression. He had profitable enterprise experiences in Europe, however his analysis led him to Calgary with its oil and gasoline business that understood know-how innovation, the federal government was steady and trade-centric, and supplied gateway to all of North America — and he quickly found everybody right here needs you to achieve success.
He grew to become chief technique officer and adviser to the CEO at Attabotics, is co-founder and investor of FormulateIP, and co-founder and CEO of Lawcubator Applied sciences, a SaaS-based platform for organizations in Canada and India to handle office authorized compliance and HR laws.
And he continues to be an angel investor serving to to enhance profitable startup firms in a metropolis Gupta says is a good base for progress in North America.
His work over the previous 5 years in nurturing firms has been acknowledged by a bunch of organizations wishing to profit from his steerage.
Presently, Gupta is a principal adviser to the entrepreneurship in health-care program at Bow Valley Faculty, chief adviser for know-how and innovation funding to Make investments Alberta, adviser to Calgary Financial Improvement, Canadian Blockchain Consortium and College of Alberta Innovation Fund, and a board member of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce and Platform Calgary.
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Gupta continues to sing the praises of Calgary, the place, in addition to his enterprise successes, he, his spouse and twin nine-year-old daughters have made many associates.
A busy man who has to seek out the time to journey to his places of work in Bangalore, India, and within the U.S., he’s the proud writer of a brand new e-book, in collaboration with the governments of India and Germany — “Creating and Safeguarding a Robust Mental Property Portfolio’.
Notes:
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