Chetan Puttagunta

About

Twitter: @chetanp; General Partner at Benchmark investing at seed/ series a. Currently: Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), Legora, LangChain, Cursor, Starcloud, Reducto, Levelpath, Numeral, Duffel, Fomo, Modern Treasury, Airbyte, Summation, MindsDB, Bezi Previously: Manus (acquired by Meta), MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB), MuleSoft (NYSE: MULE, acquired by Salesforce for $6.5B), Acquia (acquired by Vista for $1B), Scout (acquired by Workday for $540M), Nuvolo (acquired by Trane for $440M), Logikcull (acquired by Reveal)

Experience

• General Partner at Benchmark
  Jul 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

  Investing at seed/ series a Currently: Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), Legora, LangChain, Cursor, Starcloud, Reducto, Levelpath, Numeral, Duffel, Fomo, Modern Treasury, Airbyte, Summation, MindsDB, Bezi

• Chairman and Board Member at Elastic
  Jun 2014 - Present · 12 yrs 2 mos

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

• Board Member at Manus AI
  Apr 2025 - Dec 2025 · 9 mos

  Fastest company ever to go $0 - $100M ARR (8 months); Acquired by Meta

• Investor/ Board at Nuvolo
  Nov 2015 - Nov 2023 · 8 yrs 1 mo

  Led Seed; Acquired by Trane for $440M

• Investor/ Board at MongoDB
  May 2012 - Jan 2020 · 7 yrs 9 mos

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