Chetan Puttagunta

Chetan Puttagunta is a General Partner at Benchmark, where he focuses on early-stage investments in enterprise software companies. Puttagunta led Benchmark’s investments in and holds board seats on Airbyte, Bezi, Duffel, Levelpath, Legora, MindsDB, Modern Treasury, Numeral, Reducto and Stytch. Puttagunta also serves as Chairman and Lead Independent Director of Elastic (NYSE: ESTC). He previously led investments in Elastic, Manus (acquired by Meta), MuleSoft (NYSE: MULE, acquired by CRM), MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB), Forter, Sentry, and others. Puttagunta earned his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.