Chetan Puttagunta

@chetanp

@benchmark investing at seed/ series a

linkedin.com/in/chetanputta…

Joined March 2009

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Chetan Puttagunta
@chetanp
Sep 26
Legal spending on law firms continues to accelerate. Law firm customers of @WeAreLegora are growing and adding new business lines and expanding staff. AI is expanding the market.
Rob Freund
@RobertFreundLaw
Sep 24
Wait, I thought 6 months ago everyone said lawyers would be FINISHED before the end of the year????
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Chetan Puttagunta
@chetanp
Sep 23
Numeral is solving the complexity of sales tax for thousands of businesses around the world with AI. The growth and execution from this remarkable team has been terrific. Thrilled to have invested in every round since we led the Series A.
Sam Ross
@SpamRoss
Sep 23
Numeral has raised a $100M Series C, led by Insight Partners with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Benchmark, Mayfield, Uncork, Y Combinator, FCVC, and Geodesic. This brings our total funding to $157M. @numeral solves U.S. sales tax, VAT, and GST compliance for 3,500+
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Chetan Puttagunta
@chetanp
Sep 22
Legora has gone $1M to $200M ARR in less than 24 months continuing to set a speed record for the fastest ever to do it with a direct sales motion. With the best product, this remarkable team continues to define AI for legal teams. Thrilled to have backed them from the seed round.
Max Junestrand
@MaxJunestrand
Sep 22
Getting from $1M to $100M in ARR took us 18 months. The second hundred took less than six. Last week @WeAreLegora passed $200M. 130,000 lawyers now use Legora on a monthly basis, across 2,100 firms and legal teams in more than 80 countries. Two things from this year I would not
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Chetan Puttagunta
@chetanp
Sep 12
Series A to $500m run rate revenue in 11 months! Extraordinary team and remarkable product!
Paul
@paulerlanger
Sep 12
It's been amazing to see all the new users to fomo over the past few months We now have 2.5 million users, many of which have joined us recently We've done over $500mn in annualized revenue over the past 30 days We've paid out $10mn to fomo creators in the past 2-3 weeks alone
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Chetan Puttagunta
@chetanp
Sep 11
Data we are seeing at Legora is that as law firms and legal teams adopt Legora, they become far more efficient and decide to expand their teams to pursue new business opportunities and functions. A great reminder that the world is not zero-sum.
Max Junestrand
@MaxJunestrand
Sep 11
Every journalist asks me a version of the same question. Will AI mean fewer lawyers? Our customers are hiring more of them. Put complexity of the task on one axis and volume on the other. Low-complexity, high-volume work moves to agents, and that pushes the pyramid up. More of
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