Amit Kapur


Amit Kapur is an American-born internet entrepreneur. He is best known as co-founder of technology start-up Gravity and as the former chief operating officer at MySpace.

Early life and education

Amit grew up in a small farm town in South Dakota. He then graduated with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

Career

After graduation, Kapur worked at NBC Universal in their planning and digital strategy department.
Kapur joined MySpace in 2005 and was in charge of the development of MySpace Music and MySpace mobile. He was named chief operating officer of the company in January 2008.
In 2009, Kapur along with 2 other MySpace employees, Jim Benedetto and Steve Pearman, left the company to found Santa Monica-based Gravity. They raised $10 million in Series A funding in May 2009 and another $10.6 million in Series B funding in October 2012.
Gravity was acquired by AOL in January 2014. Since then Kapur has been in charge of AOL publisher platform.