Arun Gupta

Arun Gupta is the Founder of KCRG Inc. and is currently based in New York City, New York. Previously, he served as the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Grailed, a peer-to-peer menswear and streetwear marketplace that he originally launched in approximately 2013. Under his executive leadership, Grailed secured over $75 million in total venture capital funding, highlighted by a $60 million Series B round, prior to being officially acquired by GOAT Group in October 2022. Earlier in his professional career, Gupta co-founded the early sleep-tracking wearable technology company WakeMate, which was backed by the Y Combinator accelerator program, and he holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Yale University. His extensive entrepreneurial background primarily centers on developing, funding, and scaling consumer internet platforms, global peer-to-peer e-commerce marketplaces, and health-focused consumer hardware ventures.