Chetan Puttagunta
General Partner at Benchmark
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2018 - Current
Investing in software at seed/ series a Currently: Elastic, Modern Treasury, Airbyte, Stytch, Duffel, Levelpath, MindsDB, LangChain, Leya, Bezi
Benchmark focuses on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, infrastructure, and enterprise software.
Chairman and Board Member
2014
NYSE: ESTC (IPO Oct 2018); Lead Independent Director (Jun 2018 - present); Chairman (Jan 2022 - present)
Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
Raised $161,999,996.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund.
Investor/ Board
2012
NASDAQ: MDB (IPO Oct 2017); Board May 2012 - Oct 2017
MongoDB is a next-generation database that helps businesses transform their industries by harnessing the power of data.
Raised $311,000,000.00 from Prudential Financial and Salesforce.
Investor/ Board
2013
Acquired by Salesforce for $6.5B (May 2018); NYSE: MULE (IPO Mar 2017); Board Apr 2013 - Mar 2017
MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Raised $259,000,000.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund and Greenspring Associates.
Investor/ Board
2015 - 2019
Led Seed (Jan 2015) and Series A (Jul 2016). Acquired by Workday for $540M (Nov 2019).
Investor/ Board
2014 - 2019
Acquired by Vista Equity for $1B (Sep 2019); Board May 2014 - Jul 2018
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
New Enterprise Associates is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in technology and healthcare startups.
Education
BS
2003 - 2007