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Chetan Puttagunta

General Partner at Benchmark

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

B

Benchmark

  • General Partner

    2018 - Current

    Investing in software at seed/ series a Currently: Elastic, Modern Treasury, Airbyte, Stytch, Duffel, Levelpath, MindsDB, LangChain, Leya, Bezi

E

Elastic

  • Chairman and Board Member

    2014

    NYSE: ESTC (IPO Oct 2018); Lead Independent Director (Jun 2018 - present); Chairman (Jan 2022 - present)

M

MongoDB

  • Investor/ Board

    2012

    NASDAQ: MDB (IPO Oct 2017); Board May 2012 - Oct 2017

M

MuleSoft

  • Investor/ Board

    2013

    Acquired by Salesforce for $6.5B (May 2018); NYSE: MULE (IPO Mar 2017); Board Apr 2013 - Mar 2017

SR

Scout RFP

  • Investor/ Board

    2015 - 2019

    Led Seed (Jan 2015) and Series A (Jul 2016). Acquired by Workday for $540M (Nov 2019).

A

Acquia

  • Investor/ Board

    2014 - 2019

    Acquired by Vista Equity for $1B (Sep 2019); Board May 2014 - Jul 2018

NE

New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

  • General Partner

    2011 - 2018

    Member of Investment Committee Led investments in and served on the boards of: MongoDB, MuleSoft, Elastic, Acquia, Scout, Automation Anywhere, Forter, Sentry, Reltio, Nuvolo, Logikcull, Heap, SiteTracker

Education

Investments

Leya

Seed

Total Funding: $36M

Bezi

Series A

Total Funding: $13M

MindsDB

Seed

Total Funding: $55M

Levelpath

Seed

Total Funding: $45M

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