Kartik Gupta's path to Salesforce Ventures ran through Industry Ventures, where he studied both new investments and secondary sales in software companies, and his work today spans Delhi, San Francisco, and London, with investments across Europe, Israel, India, and the U.S.—he focuses on how products hold up in real daily use, checking things like security, audit logs, and whether adoption spreads across teams and countries, while also pushing for trust and compliance to be built in from the start rather than added later. He pays close attention to security approaches based on real runtime behavior rather than static checklists, has a strong eye for security founders coming out of Israel's cyber scene, and has taken an active role in building Salesforce Ventures' presence in India, including leading the firm's first India event for AI startups.