Krishna Gupta
Founder, CEO, Chairman
AI, VC, Entrepreneur
Boston, MA, USA
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Krishna Gupta is an AI founder and investor. He is the co-founder of Presto, which is the leader of using Voice AI to automate restaurant drive-thrus. He also founded his venture capital firm Remus Capital while an undergrad at MIT and has a deep focus around Vertical AI – with a particular emphasis around applying Voice AI in the industries that power America. He’s been investing in Voice AI for the last 15 years. Krishna received his bachelor’s degrees in engineering and management from MIT.
Krishna founded REMUS while a scrappy, entrepreneurial undergrad at MIT – first in a dorm room, then from a basement – in 2008 when the world was in recession. The original foundation of REMUS remains at the forefront: partnering with visionary rebels to build (not bet on) technology businesses rewiring entire industries.
Krishna is a contrarian, hands-on investor — so much so that he stepped in when needed as CEO of Presto Automation (Nasdaq: PRST, YC S10), where he wrote the first check out of MIT and became largest shareholder. With Krishna Gupta as CEO, the company 4Xed its share price and 10Xed volume. He was featured on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, and several other publications as he led the company to increasingly focus on its Enterprise Voice AI business while stabilizing its legacy hardware-as-a-platform unit. He is now Chairman of the Board.
He also sourced and helped lead the Seed/Series A investments into EquipmentShare and wrote the first checks into other category-leading companies, including Allurion Technologies (NYSE: ALUR, where he is Co-Chairman alongside the former CEO of Medtronic), Ginger (merged with Headspace in 2021 to form a $3B entity), and the first institutional check into ClassPass (valued at $1B+ and acquired by MindBody in 2021). He is Chairman of Ceres Imaging (spun out of Stanford) and Chairman of Vyome Therapeutics, going public on the Nasdaq as $HIND. He is always focused on “building to last.” Prior to REMUS, Krishna spent time at McKinsey & Company and JP Morgan, where he helped several Fortune 100 clients on billion-dollar tech deals. Krishna Gupta received SB degrees in Materials Science and Engineering and Management Science from MIT. He is a graduate of Phillips Academy Andover.
Krishna Gupta is also featured on our premiere Features Page, and you can read the Podcast Interview Transcript.
