Parul Gupta

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States21 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder of a successful edtech startup with $80M VC funding.
  • Cross-functional leader with 20+ years of global experience.
  • Mentor and investor in early-stage startups and climate solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a ClimateTech and EdTech leader with extensive startup experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Early-stage StartupsBoard GovernanceEntrepreneurshipAngel Investing

Other Skills

Algorithm DesignAlgorithmsAnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceBig DataBoard LevelCC++Cloud ComputingComputer ArchitectureComputer ScienceData MiningDebuggingDevice DriversDigital Signal Processors

About

* Gritty, first-principles, systems-thinker passionate about education and climate/sustainability. * Founder/Board member of Springboard (SF-based edtech startup). Scaled to $XX M annual revenues, $80M in VC funding, 200+ employees + 800 contractors. * Cross-functional leader with 20+ years of global experience across diverse setups - startups, academia, research, venture capital, and nonprofits. * Giving back to the entrepreneurship ecosystem as a mentor, board member, angel investor, and venture partner.

Experience

21 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
8 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Stanford doerr school of sustainability

Managing Director, Mobilization

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Stanford

  • At the Doerr School, I lead the Global Sustainability Challenge (https://globalsustainabilitychallenge.org/) with a powerhouse network to mobilize and support students worldwide in creating real-world solutions for sustainability challenges in their communities. Partners include the Technical University of Munich, Zhejiang University, Imperial College, IIT Bombay, HKUST, and more.
  • I've also had the privilege to co-create and co-teach a course called Scaling Sustainability Solutions with an extraordinary teaching team. We uncover lessons from the scaling journeys of solar, nuclear, and elimination of CFCs through the Montreal Protocol.

Nevada clean energy fund

Schultz Fellow, Clean Energy Investments

Jun 2024Aug 2024 · 2 mos

Subjecttoclimate

Board Member

Sep 2022Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • SubjectToClimate (http://www.subjecttoclimate.org) is a nonprofit that helps K-12 educators find credible, unbiased, and engaging materials on climate change at no cost.
  • Board Director; Finance & Audit committee
Board GovernanceEarly-Stage StartupsBoard Level

Emerge education

Venture Partner

Jun 2022Present · 4 yrs

  • Emerge Education is a European seed fund backed by world-class education entrepreneurs and leaders.
Early-Stage Startups

Soyhenry

Advisory Board Member

Jun 2022Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Henry is redefining the affordable tech education landscape in LatAM and is backed by Y Combinator, Kayyak Ventures and other notable angels. I serve on the advisory board alongside other founders I respect - Matias Woloski (Founder & CTO, Auth0, acq'ed by Okta) and Miguel Santos (Founder Technisys, acq'ed by Sofi).
Early-Stage StartupsEntrepreneurship

Ahead vc

Venture Partner

May 2022Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Early-stage cross-border fund helping founders in India build iconic, global companies.
Early-Stage Startups

Climate impact group

Founder & Managing Partner

Feb 2022Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

  • Mentor at leading ClimateTech incubators like Google for Startups (Circular Economy), Breakthrough Energy Fellows, and CleanTech Open
  • Advisor to founders at Pioneer Climate: a VC-backed AI-powered climate grant discovery, application, and compliance startup
  • Advisor to founder/CEO at Eugenie.ai: a Google for Startups (Climate Change) / Greentown labs incubated emissions management software startup
  • Mentorship team volunteer for Work On Climate, a talent ecosystem of 20,000+ professionals interested in working on climate solutions
  • Research & Analysis volunteer for Climate Neutral, a carbon footprint measurement nonprofit
  • Researched adoption of digital technologies (software, data, and genAI) by climate investors to make deployment of capital more efficient and effective (with Dr. Ashby Monk at Stanford Long Term Investing Research Initiative)
  • Sectors I've gone deep into: Carbon measurement & management, Climate education & workforce development, Innovation ecosystems, Building decarbonization, Circular economy (fashion, plastics, batteries), Corporate sustainability.
Early-Stage Startups

Various companies

Advisor/Angel

Sep 2017Present · 8 yrs 9 mos

  • Sharing my learnings with early stage & aspiring founders. Supporting passionate and driven early career professionals whenever I can. Cheerleader for women founders. Involved in our family's portfolio of 30+ angel investments, esp. on education, climate, and some consumer/enterprise companies. Some of my favorite portcos & teams:
  • Groww
  • Terra.Do
  • InspiritVR.com
  • Sparkwise.co
  • Leap.club
  • ThrivingSprings.com
Early-Stage StartupsEntrepreneurshipAngel Investing

Iit bombay alumni association

2 roles

Director

Sep 2013Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Board GovernanceBoard Level

Executive Board Member

Sep 2012Aug 2013 · 11 mos

  • Participated in decision making on alumni policy matters, organized alumni activities and fundraising drives for IITBombay, served on the editorial board of Fundamatics: the quarterly IITB alumni magazine.
Board GovernanceBoard Level

Springboard

2 roles

President

Jul 2013Jan 2022 · 8 yrs 6 mos

  • At Springboard, our mission is to bridge the world's skills gap. We offer online, project-based, mentor-led courses to help people break into fast growing careers in the digital economy like coding, data analytics & machine learning, design, cybersecurity and more.
  • Like founders sometimes do, I have worn multiple hats at Springboard. When we started in 2013, as the technical co-founder of the company, I helped build our engineering team in Bangalore. Over the years, I built ground up and led our product, project-management, program operations, course-development teams out of San Francisco. Most recently, I've been leading Springboard's growth through new products, verticals and markets like international and university partnerships. Always learning!
Early-Stage StartupsEntrepreneurship

Co-founder & Board Member

Jan 2013Present · 13 yrs 5 mos

Board GovernanceEarly-Stage StartupsBoard LevelEntrepreneurship

Ibm research

Technical Staff Member

Jul 2008Jul 2013 · 5 yrs · Bangalore, India

  • IBM Research is IBM’s R&D Division with 12 labs on 6 continents is the world’s largest industrial research organization and home to several Nobel Prize, Turing Awards, and National Medal winners. I was a part of the Next Generation Telecom Networks group and worked on problems spanning algorithms for wireless communication systems, cloud computing, and big data analytics. For more details, please see my recent publications.

Ngo post

Co-founder

Aug 2007Jul 2013 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Greater San Diego Area + Bangalore, India

  • NGO Post is a web-based platform to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration on social welfare and development initiatives. The NGO Post community has members from a variety of groups - NGOs, volunteers, CSR groups, funding agencies and common citizens.
  • Founded in Aug' 07 with Nitin Gupta, a fellow student at UCSD, NGO Post was brought to shape by a voluntary team of 10 people. We do not have an active volunteer team maintaining it anymore but the community continues to engage.

Ittiam systems

Senior R&D Engineer

Mar 2004Aug 2006 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Physical layer algorithm development for IEEE 802.11a/g/n transceivers. I was the primary owner of Ittiam’s 802.11a Floating and Fixed Point simulators and responsible for all R&D and support

Education

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Sloan Fellow (Masters in Management for Experienced Leaders)

Jul 2023Jun 2024

UCLA

M. S. — Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

B. Tech — Electrical Engineering

UC San Diego

Research — Electrical and Computer Engineering

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