Vinay Gupta is an entrepreneur.

Vinay is the founder and CEO of Janeeva Inc. Prior to launching Janeeva, Vinay was Entrepreneur in Residence with Ardesta LLC, a pioneer in investing in "small tech" MEMS companies. Through Ardesta, Vinay served as president of three venture backed companies: Sensicore, Discera and Translume. In 1996, Vinay co-founded BlueGill Technologies, an Internet infra-structure company that specializes in Internet billing software. BlueGill was sold to CheckFree Corporation in 2000 for $250 million. Vinay has held positions as Managing Director-Asia Pacific and General Manager-India for Cabletron Systems, as well as Manager of Global Operations at NCR and Zenith Electronics. Vinay continues to serve on the board of directors for Translume.

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In 2000, at the height of the Internet bubble, Gupta and his partner, Hal Davis, sold their Ann Arbor online bill payment software company, BlueGill Technologies, to CheckFree Holdings Corp. for $250 million.

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