Gautam Gupta
General Partner at TCV
Gautam Gupta
General Partner at TCV
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2021 - Current
Within the TCV Velocity fund, we lead and participate in Series A/B/C stage financings. www.tcv.com Bio: https://www.tcv.com/team/gautam-gupta/
TCV provides investment capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry.
Investor and Advisor
2016
Proud angel investor in many great startups and VC funds. I have invested in ~40 private companies and am an LP/advisor in several venture funds. I invest in consumer and enterprise IT companies at all stages but mostly in 'first capital in' rounds. My portfolio includes 8 companies valued at over $1B, 19 companies valued at over $100M, and generates close to $2B in annual net revenue. Some examples are BigCommerce, GoodData, Honest Company, Grammarly, Imperfect Foods, The Pill Club, Heap Analytics, Split.io, TruePill, EarnUp, and Pilot among many others.
Board of Overseers
2016
Babson College educates entrepreneurial leaders who create great economic and social value—everywhere. www.babson.edu
Venture Partner
2021 - 2021
Partner
2019 - 2021
M13 is a unique consumer focused venture capital firm. As opposed to financiers or investment bankers, our firm consists of former entrepreneurs and operators. Having made many mistakes as a CEO, my hope is to help the founders I work with avoid those pitfalls. We lead seed and Series A rounds. Particular interest in consumer software, subscription, and marketplace models. Always have time to help a fellow founder. Investments I have led include Shef, Doorstead, Passport, ProGuides, Rae, PrizePool, PopShopLive, Baotris, Spartacus, SuperLocal, Fable, Anycart, Trill.
M13 provides strategic counsel and operational expertise to help founders grow their companies.
Raised $5,512,500.00 from Manhattan West.
Board Of Directors
2018 - 2019
Co-Founder and CEO
2012 - 2018
Hungry to make discovering bold, delicious foods easier, NatureBox is on a mission to empower consumers with direct access to better choices and a dynamic, personalized experience. As a direct-to-consumer food company, NatureBox harnesses consumer data to drive personalized, real time innovation and bring new products to market in just three months—a timeline unfathomable to most major food brands. NatureBox offers over 100 distinctive products under that NatureBox brand — each is crafted with only the highest quality ingredients and no high fructose corn syrup, trans fats, artificial colors, artificial flavors, and artificial sweeteners. www.naturebox.com
NatureBox is an online delivery service that home-delivers all-natural snack foods to their consumers on a monthly basis.
Raised $58,500,000.00 from Montage Capital, UpHonest Capital, Canaan Partners, Neil Tolaney, SoftBank Capital, Dyal Capital Partners, Global Founders Capital, General Catalyst, John M. Foraker and Valley Oak Investments.
Principal
2004 - 2012
Joined the firm initially in college and then full time in 2007. Started the west coast office in 2010. Sourced and closed 5 investments (+$100M of invested capital) for General Catalyst including BigCommerce (BIGC), Honest Company (HNST), GoodData, NextAction (merged to form Datalogix, later sold to Oracle) and PlumDistrict. www.generalcatalyst.com
General Catalyst partners with ambitious founders to drive resilience and applied AI from seed to growth.
Consumer Market Knowledge
2006 - 2007
Noxell Corporation manufactures and markets perfumes, colognes, cosmetic, and toiletry products under CoverGirl brand name.
Education
BS
2003 - 2007