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Chathan

ROLE PARTNERAT BENCHMARKMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN JUNE 27, 2026
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Chetan Puttagunta is a General Partner at Benchmark, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, where he invests at the seed and Series A stages. He is best known for his early investments in enterprise software companies including MongoDB, MuleSoft, and Elastic, all of which completed successful public offerings. He currently serves on the boards of several AI and infrastructure companies including LangChain, Airbyte, and Cursor.

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mention·20VC·JUNE 27, 2026

Out of all the conversations we had, he got it instantly — like he had this deep intuition about what we were building. We had very high conviction on what we were building. So to find someone else who has the same vision and conviction off the bat as us who doesn't historically do deals in our industry — it was just an amazing conversation.

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