Meet Kavita Gupta- The Leading Mind Behind The Financial Technology Space

Kavita Gupta is an Indian American entrepreneur. She is best known for her powerful TED Talk, What if the world had only one currency? She is also the co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer, and host of Fintech.TV, a New York-based financial media outlet. 

 

Her work spans four continents, with the World Bank, IFC, McKinsey, and the Schmidt Family Office - the family foundation of Alphabet Inc. executive Eric Schmidt, thus establishing innovative investment funds in the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, and the United States.

 

Education

Kavita Gupta did her early schooling at St. Xavier's School, further, she received degrees in Computer Management & Communications and Information Technology from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kavita Gupta also studied

International Trade & Economics at The George Washington University.

 

Career

Ms. Gupta originally established the Delta Blockchain Fund in September 2021, a strategic investment fund that closed after acquiring about $50 million in undertakings from a diverse group of investors.

 

The fund includes the Delta Growth Fund, which is primarily focused on special purpose vehicles (SPVs). She was also the Founding Managing Partner at ConsenSys, apart from this she was the Board Member at Dusk Foundation.

 

Kavita Gupta has been appointed chairwoman of the Dusk Network's Non-Executive Board. Kavita is a well-known figure in the traditional finance world, as well as one of the first blockchain pioneers.

 

She has been with Dusk since early summer and has already proven to be incredibly valuable in terms of bringing crucial knowledge on pre-IPO liquidity, share acquisition, and leveraging one of the world's best networks to help Dusk gain traction.

 

Experience 

Kavita has extensive experience in both the global venture capital and digital asset markets. She was initially the Founding Managing Partner of Consensys Ventures, where she supervised the company's unique VC-hedge fund, as well as the creation of Tachyon- Accelerator and the company's footprints in India.

 

Recognitions

 

• Ex-Alphabet Inc. executive and Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Schmidt Family Office entrusted her with mission investing.

• Run a $250 million+ UN SDG-aligned fund that invests in technologies that provide first-time or low-cost access around the world.

• For the past 16 years, she has established innovative investment funds through the World Bank, IFC, and McKinsey in East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and most recently the United States.

• Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, co-founder of the Distributed Trust Initiative, and instructor for "Beyond Bitcoin."

• She also serves on the boards and advisory boards of many foundations around the world, including the Google accelerator social track, MIT Solve (Sr. Advisor), the Vatican's Right Now Foundation for impact investments, and the Mandela Foundation, among others.  

 

Overview of Delta Fund

Kavita Gupta founded Delta Blockchain Fund in September 2021 as an early-stage strategic blockchain fund. They are a strategic, product-driven global fund that supports an interoperable ecosystem by partnering with extraordinary founders and communities in the Web 3.0 space.

 

From product vision to market partnerships to scale their companies to unimaginable heights, they believe in partnering with our founders every step of the way.

 

The Delta Blockchain Fund is interested in investing in a variety of Blockchain-related verticals, including DEFI, NFTs technology, decentralized identity, storage and computation, play-to-earn economies, Web 3.0 analytics, and more.

 

The vision of Delta Fund

The Delta team is ecstatic and humbled to have backed many entrepreneurs who have created industry-changing products. These businesses will remain at the forefront of innovation, and they will create an ecosystem of talent that will continue to develop new business models in the future.

Delta wants to expand and support new cutting-edge technologies across a variety of industries to bring the first 10 million, 100 million, and ultimately 1 billion users on-chain.

 

Get a quick overview of the blockchain technology- From the expert

Blockchain is the technology behind cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, but its applications are much broader, with the potential to transform any work that requires database record-keeping and beyond.

 

To understand how the system works, it's helpful to breakdown the word blockchain. Computers on the network encode data, for example, smart contracts, Bitcoin transactions, or logistics companies' supply chain information into "blocks" that are added to a constantly evolving digital ledger known as the "chain." Each node receives duplicate copies of the entire database as new blocks of information are added.

 

Future of blockchain technology

Kavita Gupta has been associated with the financial technology space, and current and upcoming plans of Delta Blockchain, for more than 17 years now. She considers herself a strong supporter of Ethereum, but she is quick to point out that other blockchains are being used in place of Ethereum because of lower gas fees. She believes that businesses will use a combination of blockchains and will select other blockchains based on their industry focus.

 

She also claims that in about three years, we will be seeing a model of interoperable chains based on the various use cases. Because different blockchains provide different benefits and entrepreneurs require all of them such as security, productivity, throughput, and low cost—the future will not be a single chain.