Deepak Gupta

Senior Associate Director & Industry Professional @ UC Berkeley | Startups & VC

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated July 2026💼 21 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor - SPV
Jan 2026
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
Seed Investor
2024
VELMENI optimizes predictive care for patients, providers, and insurers to deliver breakthrough AI solutions in healthcare. Our pioneering culture benefits healthcare businesses for the betterment of patients and their communities. Our model is anchored by a value chain that improves our customer’s businesses, the lives of patients they touch, and the health and wellness of society. Engage Velmeni for AI breakthrough solutions: - High precision diagnostics - Informed patients and increased doctor-patient trust - Faster & accurate insurance claim processing - Adherence to treatment plans - Improved clinical and financial outcomes Our leadership team includes: - Top-tier technology executives - Leading-edge product architecture and data scientists - Recognizable domain leaders in dental care We are committed to radically elevating the industry’s value by altering the conventional health care industry.
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2023
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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2021
Live city feeds across 20,000 cities. Powering real-time discovery for ChatGPT and Google Gemini. Atmosfy is the worlds largest real-time video database of the physical world. 500M+ real-world experiences indexed across 20,000+ cities in 150 countries. 100M+ video-mapped locations. Already powering discovery inside ChatGPT and Google Gemini as the real-world layer for AI-driven search. When AI platforms need to know whats happening at a restaurant, hotel, or city right now, they come to Atmosfy. Through Atmosfy Atlas, brands and travel platforms tap into live city video across every market. Distribution partners include Expedia, SeatGeek, GetYourGuide, and more. Top #100 App Store in 40+ countries with a 4.8 star rating across 35K+ reviews. Backed by Redpoint, Capital One, Industry Ventures, Canaan, Village Global, and global superstar Kygo. Featured in TechCrunch, Fortune, ABC, NBC, and FOX.
Seed Investor
2019
ImpriMed, founded in 2017 in Silicon Valley, is a leading precision medicine startup revolutionizing cancer treatment with artificial intelligence. The company’s pioneering drug response prediction technology helps reduce costs, accelerate treatment, enhance efficacy, and improve the quality of life for patients. To date, the company’s technology has been deployed across more than 40 U.S. states, and 22,000+ canine and feline blood cancer tests have been performed as of 2025. ImpriMed is now poised to extend its groundbreaking AI-driven approach to human healthcare, redefining the future of oncology treatment with personalized, effective solutions. For additional information, visit www.imprimedicine.com.
Seed Investor
2019
BioAmp Diagnostics is committed to preventing the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in healthcare through the development of innovative diagnostic tools, that will give medical providers the information they need to correctly treat an infection.
early stageBiotechnology
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2018
YourChoice Therapeutics is building the family planning company of the 21st century. It is our mission to improve the health and well being of women and men by developing the non-hormonal contraceptive and fertility products they desperately need.
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2018
Clarity Movement Co. is a team of passionate engineers and scientists focused on making a positive impact in the world by tackling the global air pollution crisis. We leverage our expertise in air sensing technology, IoT devices, and data analytics to create solutions that empower communities to make more informed decisions and improve quality of life. Having already developed the world’s most accurate low-cost particulate matter sensor, Clarity is now deploying the next generation of dense air quality monitoring networks around the world to build smarter cities through smarter data.
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2018
Unlocking the potential of macrocycle drug discovery through machine learning and massively parallel synthesis
early stageBiotechnology
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2018
Battery Capacity Unlocked
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2018
Aether Biomachines is an American artificial intelligence company that discovers proteins with high-impact, real-world applications. At the core of its work is a Protein Function Model that can unlock new proteins for novel functions. Aether’s AI is being built on an entirely proprietary dataset developed in-house through advanced high-throughput screening and innovative assay technology. Using this platform, Aether has developed seven new classes of proteins with capabilities ranging from refining metals at lower cost and breaking down persistent “forever chemicals” to producing industry-leading materials, enabling complex pharmaceutical manufacturing, recycling plastics, and capturing carbon dioxide. Aether is already translating its AI breakthroughs into practice, commercializing high-performance materials that can print ten times faster than current industry benchmarks while offering superior strength for the defense and aerospace industries.
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2018
Aluna is designed to help you understand your chronic respiratory condition (such as asthma) and allow you to take control of your lung health. Using a combination of machine learning, our spirometer device and mobile app, you can now use the daily measurements to help you understand and manage your asthma.
Investor
2018
Particella Inc., (formerly DNAlite Therapeutics) is a biotechnology company that has developed a novel proprietary lipid nanoparticle that can deliver mRNA and other nucleic acids orally.
Seed Investor
2018
New Sun Road (NSR) is on a mission to accelerate renewable energy deployment and access for remote communities. Our unique Stellar platform includes a set of hardware-agnostic technologies for renewable systems: Stellar Microgrid OS™, Stellar Edge™, and Stellar IS™. It is a flexible, scalable solution that provides industry, government, nonprofit, and academic partners a mission control for their distributed energy fleets. In addition, the IoT and AI technologies reduce OpEx costs, by increasing remote control and visibility, optimizing system performance, and much more. Formed as a for-profit public benefit company (P.B.C.) and guided by principles of environmental sustainability and economic development, we make a global impact for productive purposes. Stellar manages over 1000 power systems in more than 20 countries. We are headquartered at Berkeley’s Richmond Field Station in Richmond, CA.
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2017
Ayar Labs is transforming AI infrastructure by accelerating data movement. Recognizing that the complexity and size of AI models are increasing at a rate that traditional interconnect technology cannot handle, the company has developed the industry’s first co-packaged optics (CPO) solution that enables customers to maximize the compute efficiency and performance of growing AI infrastructure, while reducing costs, latency and power consumption. Based on open standards and optimized for both AI training and inference, Ayar Labs’ optical I/O solution is backed by a robust ecosystem that enables it to integrate smoothly into AI systems at scale.
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2026
Investor - SPV
Jan 2026
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
2024
Managing Director & CFO
2024
Techne Infiniti Ventures (‘Techne’) - Where AI meets Hospitality - is an early stage venture capital fund focused on hospitality technology and related sectors. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, and with offices in Amsterdam and Bangalore, we invest globally. Our leadership team has previously worked at Google, Apple, Cisco, Intel, HP, Oracle, Symantec and 200+ high growth startups. We also own a premium portfolio of hospitality assets, primarily in Silicon Valley. We uniquely operate at the intersection of hospitality + technology + startups + investments + innovation.
Seed Investor
2024
VELMENI optimizes predictive care for patients, providers, and insurers to deliver breakthrough AI solutions in healthcare. Our pioneering culture benefits healthcare businesses for the betterment of patients and their communities. Our model is anchored by a value chain that improves our customer’s businesses, the lives of patients they touch, and the health and wellness of society. Engage Velmeni for AI breakthrough solutions: - High precision diagnostics - Informed patients and increased doctor-patient trust - Faster & accurate insurance claim processing - Adherence to treatment plans - Improved clinical and financial outcomes Our leadership team includes: - Top-tier technology executives - Leading-edge product architecture and data scientists - Recognizable domain leaders in dental care We are committed to radically elevating the industry’s value by altering the conventional health care industry.
2023
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2023
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
2021
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2021
Live city feeds across 20,000 cities. Powering real-time discovery for ChatGPT and Google Gemini. Atmosfy is the worlds largest real-time video database of the physical world. 500M+ real-world experiences indexed across 20,000+ cities in 150 countries. 100M+ video-mapped locations. Already powering discovery inside ChatGPT and Google Gemini as the real-world layer for AI-driven search. When AI platforms need to know whats happening at a restaurant, hotel, or city right now, they come to Atmosfy. Through Atmosfy Atlas, brands and travel platforms tap into live city video across every market. Distribution partners include Expedia, SeatGeek, GetYourGuide, and more. Top #100 App Store in 40+ countries with a 4.8 star rating across 35K+ reviews. Backed by Redpoint, Capital One, Industry Ventures, Canaan, Village Global, and global superstar Kygo. Featured in TechCrunch, Fortune, ABC, NBC, and FOX.
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