Chetan Puttagunta
Chetan Puttagunta is a General Partner at Benchmark, a venture capital firm, where he invests at the seed and Series A stages. He joined Benchmark in July 2018 after spending seven years as a general partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA). He is best known for leading early investments in enterprise software companies including Elastic, MongoDB, and MuleSoft, and currently serves on the boards of Elastic as chairman, as well as several AI and infrastructure companies including LangChain, Airbyte, and Cursor. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
“Earlier this year, they raised $170 million led by Benchmark and became the fastest growing unicorn in YC history, just 17 months after Demo Day.”
Source→“Chetan Puttagunta (Benchmark): Partner at Benchmark who led the StarCloud investment — Benchmark's first-ever space investment.”
Source→“Benchmark portfolio (Chetan Puttagunta's deal); already had a GPU operating in space at time of investment, weeks before Elon Musk began publicly championing the category”
“On the strength of a team that already had a GPU operating in space, not on a category call" — cited as a model of founder-driven non-consensus investing”
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