Gaurav Gupta
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
Gaurav Gupta
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2019 - Current
I'm a Partner on the early-stage team (primarily Seed, Series A, B), focused on enterprise/B2B companies. Companies I'm currently involved with include: • Grafana Labs (www.grafana.com) - Led Series A and Series B, Board Director • Panther (www.runpanther.io) - Led Series A, Board Director • Hasura (www.hasura.io) - Led Series B, Board Director • ClickHouse (www.clickhouse.com) - Participated in Series B, Board Observer • Polar Signals (www.polarsignals.com) - Co-led Seed round • Ponder (www.ponder.io) - Led Seed round • Stability AI (www.stability.ai) - Investor
Board Director
2019
Grafana Labs’ vision is to become the first, true open and composable observability platform that combines metrics, logs, and tracing.
Board Director
2020
Panther Labs is a cloud-first, open-source security platform designed as an alternative to legacy SIEMs.
Board Director
2020
Hasura, the data access infrastructure company, helps organizations accelerate product delivery by instantly connecting databases and services to applications via GraphQL.
Board Observer
2021
ClickHouse is an open-source, high performance columnar OLAP database for real-time analytics.
Seed Investor
2021
Ponder provides tools for rapid, flexible experimentation with data at scale, and commercializes open-source projects, Modin and Lux.
Seed Investor
2021
Polar Signals is a continuous profiling project for applications and infrastructure. It helps you save money, improve performance and understand incidents better.
Investor
2022
Stability AI is an open-source generative AI company and is behind Stable Diffusion, an AI text-to-image generator.
Board Director
2024
GRAMMY Award-winning Ragazzi Boys Chorus, provides outstanding musical education and performance opportunities for boys and young men ages 5 to 18.
Advisor & Investor
2018 - 2019
Involved as an advisor/investor to a number of companies including Resilience (cyberinsurance), BigPanda (AIOps), Blameless (platform for SREs), Cribl (observability data pipeline), Exabeam (next-gen SIEM), Pinecone (Vector database for ML), Ikigai Labs (stealth), Impira (AI-charged spreadsheet), Rockset (real-time analytics DB), Timescale (open source time-series DB), Antara Health (healthcare in Africa)