Anand Gupta
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- Full Name
- Anand Kishore Gupta
- Title
- Senior Member
- Firm
- Sparring Partners Capital LLC
- Firm Type
- Technology investment banking and private equity fund placement firm; also listed as an angel/individual investor in third-party investor databases
- Investment Stage
- Seed-stage angel investing; venture and growth-equity capital raising advisory
- Target Company Profile
- Private technology-enabled companies seeking M&A advice, equity financing, debt financing, growth capital, recapitalization, or shareholder liquidity
- Sector Focus
- Enterprise software, internet and new media, mobile, security and compliance, telecom, financial technology, infrastructure software, marketing software and services, business/financial services, human capital management, tech-enabled services
- Geographic Focus
- Global relationships; Sparring Partners states it serves an international client base and has advised clients across North America, Europe, and Asia
- Location
- New York metropolitan area / Short Hills, New Jersey
Background
Anand Kishore Gupta is a senior member of Sparring Partners Capital LLC, a technology-focused investment banking and private equity fund placement firm founded in 2001. Sparring Partners describes his work as focused on M&A advisory and equity financings for enterprise software, internet and new media, mobile, security and compliance, and telecom companies.
Before joining Sparring Partners, Gupta was a Vice President at Goode Venture Partners, a New York-based venture capital firm where he focused on technology investments. During that period, he also took an operating role at Inform Technologies, one of Goode Venture Partners’ portfolio companies, where he ran the company’s Data & Content division.
Gupta began his career as an early member of Capital IQ. He holds a B.S. in Finance and Information Systems from the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business.
FINRA BrokerCheck lists him as Anand Kishore Gupta, CRD #5336134, a FINRA-regulated broker with Sparring Partners Capital LLC, registered with the firm since October 1, 2007, with 18 years of industry experience and no listed disclosures.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Sparring Partners’ official focus is private technology-enabled companies. The firm says it brings “tailored advice to private technology-enabled companies” and has an “exclusive focus on the technology sector.”
- Gupta’s personal coverage areas at Sparring are enterprise software, internet and new media, mobile, security and compliance, and telecom.
- For equity financings, Sparring says it helps companies identify institutional investors who can provide “both capital and strategic support to accelerate growth.”
- Sparring’s capital-raising process is aimed at venture capital, growth equity, private equity, and strategic investors, with emphasis on positioning clients to key decision-makers efficiently.
- Public investor databases list Gupta as an angel/individual investor with interest areas including investment management, IT, software, reviews and recommendations, capital raising, M&A, big data, and media/entertainment.
- No publicly verified personal check size or formal angel-investing thesis was found.
Notable Investments
- Game Trust / Gametrust: Listed as Gupta’s past investment by AngelMatch. Game Trust was a New York-based casual-game infrastructure company acquired by RealNetworks in 2007.
- Inform Technologies: Gupta held an executive role at this Goode Venture Partners portfolio company, running its Data & Content division.
- Resy: Sparring Partners served as financial advisor to Resy in its acquisition transaction.
- Brainshark: Sparring Partners served as financial advisor to Brainshark in its acquisition transaction.
- SMA Technologies: Sparring Partners served as financial advisor to SMA Technologies in its acquisition transaction.
- DataCore: Sparring Partners served as financial advisor to DataCore in a financing round.
- Meetup: Sparring Partners served as financial advisor to Meetup in its acquisition transaction.
- Agoda: Sparring Partners served as financial advisor to Agoda in its acquisition transaction.
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