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Tushar Gupta
Investor at Hugging Face
San Francisco, California
Overview
Tushar Gupta is a Senior Director at Qualcomm Ventures, with a strong background in venture capital, product management, and business development. He has invested in various tech companies and holds a key role in Qualcomm Ventures, focusing on investing in sectors like IoT, Digital Health, and FinTech in Southern California.
Gupta has a successful track record of investing in and supporting innovative startups, and his current role at Qualcomm Ventures allows him to leverage his expertise in product management and business development to drive strategic investments in emerging technologies.
Work Experience
Sr. Director, Ventures
2021 - Current
Director, Ventures
2017 - 2021
AI HardTech IoT
Qualcomm Ventures is a global investor that assists entrepreneurs in creating revolutionary businesses.
Investor
2023
Hugging Face allows users to build, train, and deploy art models using the reference open source in machine learning.
Raised $395,200,000.00 from Bossa Invest, PremjiInvest, Firestreak Ventures, Google, AMD, Sound Ventures, NVIDIA, Intel, IBM and Salesforce Ventures.
Investor
2021
Weights & Biases is a developer-first MLOps platform that builds machine learning performance visualization tools.
Raised $250,000,000.00 from IPOSharks.
Investor
2021
Humane is a platform that creates and sells consumer hardware, software, and services.
Raised $230,000,000.00 from Socium Ventures, Lachy Groom, Salesforce Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, HICO, Microsoft, Volvo Cars Tech Fund, Hudson Bay Capital Management, Kindred Ventures and Sam Altman.
Investor
2021
WellSaid Labs is a developer of art text-to-speech technology that creates life-like synthetic voices, from the voices of real people.
Raised $10,000,000.00 from Qualcomm Ventures, FUSE, Good Friends and Voyager Capital.
Investor
2021
OctoAI is an AI infrastructure platform designed to help developers run, tune, and scale generative AI models efficiently.
Raised $131,900,000.00 from Addition, Madrona, Amplify Partners and Tiger Global Management.
Board Observer
2020
Frore Systems is a developer of thermal technology for consumer devices.
Raised $180,000,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Fidelity, Clear Ventures, StepStone Group, Qualcomm Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures, MVP Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures and Clear Ventures.
Investor
2020 - 2023
Investor
2022 - 2023
OmniML is a AI/ML startup developing smaller and faster machine learning models and training platform.
Raised $10,000,000.00 from GSR Ventures, Foothill Ventures, GGV Capital, Tectonic Ventures, IMO Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Fellows Fund and Matrix.
Staff Product Manager - Connected Camera Product Mangement and Business Development
2015 - 2017
P&L responsibility for Edge AI cameras product segment with product marketing and new business development responsibility for North America, China, Taiwan, Korea, and India – drove product design wins with key global camera customers Product management including competitive analysis, product planning, features/roadmap creation, product positioning, budgeting, MRD/PRD, and go-to-market planning and execution of AI-based cameras for smart homes, 360-degree VR, sports and digital Ecosystem partnership management with Artificial Intelligence vision and speech solution providers Experience with key value chain partners including OEMs, ODMs, and service providers
Senior Product Manager
2013 - 2015
Product owner for Qualcomm's SDK to expose hardware differentiated features to developers and OEMs - Snapdragon Elements and Snapdragon BatteryGuru Android application Developed and executed strategy for working with ISV's to optimize their libraries and applications on the Snapdragon platform and reduce commoditization of Snapdragon chipset. Drove adoption of Snapdragon differentiated video, audio, sensors, camera, display and location technologies with influential app developers, OEMs and carriers globally
Ultra-Scan Corporation is an identity management solutions provider and a pioneer in development of high accuracy, fingerprint Technology.
Raised $18,000,000.00 from Tom Golisano.
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