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Soumitra Sengupta

Venture Partner at Elevate Capital Fund

Kirkland, Washington

Overview 

Soumitra Sengupta is a highly accomplished technology leader with a Ph.D. and extensive experience at Microsoft, including roles as Partner Director of Engineering and Principal Software Architect. Currently, he serves as a Venture Partner at Elevate Capital Fund and as an Executive In Residence at The Idea Village, showcasing his expertise in cloud computing, scalability, and software development. Sengupta has a diverse background in building and mentoring teams, with notable contributions in leading engineering teams at UiPath and co-founding Kanari Digital Inc. He holds a strong educational foundation with a Ph.D. from Tulane University and experience in various leadership roles at Microsoft, demonstrating his technical leadership and expertise in enterprise software and system architecture.

Work Experience 

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The Idea Village

  • Board Member

    2022 - Current

  • Executive In Residence

    2018

DIGITAL MEDIAx, a joint project of The Idea Village and NOLA Media Group, is a 12-week accelerator program.

ideavillage.org
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Elevate Capital Fund

  • Venture Partner

    2020

Elevate Capital is a seed and early-stage investment firm with a focus in the Pacific Northwest and investing in under-represented founders.

elevate.vc
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UiPath

  • Engineering Leader

    2021 - 2023

UiPath is a software company that designs and develops robotic process automation and artificial intelligence applications.

Raised $1,993,025,000.00 from Turkgen Ventures.

uipath.com

Kanari Digital Inc.

  • Co-Founder, CEO and Board Member

    2019 - 2021

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Microsoft

  • Partner Director of Engineering

    2003 - 2017

  • Partner Director of Engineering, Universal Store

    2015 - 2017

    Leading engineering teams building platform technology and tools that run Microsoft's Digital Storefront. Currently Director of Software Engineering in Universal Store.

  • Principal Manager Software Engieering/Program Management, PowerBI

    2013 - 2015

    Led team that delivered the service foundation for Power BI. We launched PowerBI and I worked on multiple releases of PowerBI.

  • Principal Group Program Manager/Principal Lead Program Manager, Windows Phone

    2011 - 2012

    Led program management team that worked with Nokia and Qualcomm to build and ship the first Lumia series of Smartphones. Transitioned as GPM of the Hololens Incubation team in spring of 2012.

  • Principal Software Architect/Principal Lead Software Engineering, Windows Phone Application Platform

    2009 - 2011

    Me and my team worked on the Application Platform and Developer Tools for Windows Phone 7, 7.5 and 8.

  • Principal Software Architect, SQL Azure

    2006 - 2009

    Part of founding team that built the first Azure Database Service called SQL Azure/AzureDB

  • Principal Software Architect/Principal Product Unit Manager, SQL Server

    2003 - 2006

    Led multi-functional product team that released SQL Server 2005

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

about.ads.microsoft.com
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Corio Inc.

  • Senior Director, Corio Technologies

    2002 - 2003

Corio is an enterprise Application Service Provider (ASP) that deploys and manages enterprise applications from software vendors such as

Raised $51,000,000.00 from Sun Microsystems, Norwest Venture Partners, Siebel Systems, Tenaya Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Concentric Network Corporation and Greylock.

corio.com

B-Bop

  • CTO and Co-Founder

    1998 - 2003

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Philips Research

  • Senior Member Research Staff

    1995 - 1998

Philips Healthcare provides healthcare solutions for diagnostic, treatment, and preventive care.

usa.philips.com
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Laitram Corporation

  • Senior Software Engineer and Project Lead

    1991 - 1995

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