The firm
BenchmarkVC firm · US36cheques in 12 months587all time18ledWhere they are named on record
Filings
- SEC Form D · Venture Capital fundBenchmarkManaging Member of the General Partneron 12 filings · since 2024
- SEC Form D · Company raisingBezi, Inc.Directorsince 2023
- SEC Form D · Company raisingAIRBYTE, INC.Directorsince 2021
- SEC Form D · Company raisingLogik Systems, Inc.Directorsince 2018
- SEC Form D · Company raisingElasticsearch Global BVDirectorsince 2017
- SEC Form D · Company raisingSiteTraker, Inc.Directorsince 2017
- SEC Form D · Company raisingScoutRFP, Inc.Directorsince 2017
- SEC Form D · Company raisingReltio, Inc.Directoron 3 filings · since 2016
- SEC Form D · Company raisingFolloze, Inc.Directorsince 2016
- SEC Form D · Company raisingHeap Inc.Directoron 2 filings · since 2015
- SEC Form D · Company raisingPlacester, Inc.Directoron 2 filings · since 2015
- SEC Form D · Company raisingCanopy Tax, Inc.Directoron 4 filings · since 2015
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Benchmark’s Chetan Puttagunta on the Past, Present, & Future of Software
MentionsEverett Randle
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Chetan Puttagunta is a General Partner at Benchmark. We talk about investing in Manus, the AI company that went from zero to $100M ARR in eight months and was recently acquired by Meta. We also talk through the full history of application software, from mainframes to client-server, to the… More on the show's page
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Chetan Puttagunta and Modest Proposal - Capital, Compute & AI Scaling - [Invest Like the Best, EP.400]
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My guests today are Chetan Puttagunta and Modest Proposal. Chetan is a General Partner at venture firm Benchmark, while Modest Proposal is an anonymous guest who manages a large pool of capital in the public markets. Both are good friends and frequent guests on the show, but this is the first time… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's pageChetan Puttagunta and Jeremiah Lowin – Open Source Crash Course - [Invest Like the Best, EP.188]
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My guests this week are Jeremiah Lowin and Chetan Puttagunta. Jeremiah is the founder of Prefect.io, an open-source software company where my family and I are investors, and Chetan is a partner at Benchmark Capital. Both are past guests and good friends. I asked them on to help the audience… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's pageBill Gurley and Chetan Puttagunta – An Update on Consumer & Enterprise Venture Capital - [Invest Like the Best, EP.162]
WithBill GurleyChetan Puttagunta
Their bookRunnin' Down a Dream
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My guests today are Bill Gurley and Chetan Puttagunta, both partners at benchmark capital. We review the early stage investing world in the face of coronavirus in a very timely conversation, which is one that will remain valuable once this crisis is done. We discuss enterprise and consumer, funding… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's pageChetan Puttagunta – Go Slow to Go Fast: Software Building and Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.156]
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My guest this week is a good friend and a business mentor of mine. Chetan Puttagunta is a general partner at Benchmark Capital and has a remarkable track record of investing in early-stage software businesses, including several like Mulesoft, MongoDB, and Elastic that went on to be public… More on the show's page
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Benchmark and Investing in Open Source with Eric Vishria and Chetan Puttagunta
WithChetan PuttaguntaEric Vishria
MentionsBrett Bolkowy
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Eric Vishria (@ericvishria) and Chetan Puttagunta (@chetanp), general partners at Benchmark, join Erik on this episode. They discuss: - The unique partnership structure at Benchmark and how it has led to the continued success of the firm. - Why they are purposefully not trying to scale the firm,… More on the show's page
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Benchmark's Five Partners on AI, IPOs, and Silicon Valley's Comeback
MentionsJack AltmanChetan PuttaguntaEverett RandlePeter Fenton
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This week we're sharing a conversation from TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, host Connie Loizos sits down with all five partners at Benchmark, Peter Fenton, Erik Vishria, Chetan Puttagunta, Everett Randle, and Jack Altman, for a rare look inside one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms.…
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Uncapped #41 | The Benchmark Partnership
MentionsChetan PuttaguntaEric VishriaPeter Fenton
About this episode
In this episode, the Benchmark partnership explains why they’ve resisted scale, eliminated residual economics, and built an equal partnership designed to endure. We talk about what that choice enables – for founders, for decision-making, and for practicing venture as a craft rather than a factory.… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's pageInside Reducto: YC to Series B in 18 Months, From Pivot to Fortune 10 Customers, Lessons in Founder-Led Sales | Adit Abraham, Co-founder and CEO of Reducto
MentionsChetan PuttaguntaLiz Wessel
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Sign-up here to get weekly episodes + transcripts in your inbox: https://www.thespl.it/ Adit Abraham is the Co-founder and CEO of Reducto. Reducto’s product takes PDFs and physical documents, and extracts all the data, just like a human would if they were reading it. At the time of recording,… More on the show's page
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How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (Co-founder & CEO at Reducto)
MentionsChetan PuttaguntaDiana HuLiz Wessel
About this episode
Adit Abraham is the co-founder and CEO of Reducto, which helps leading AI teams extract and structure data from complex documents and spreadsheets in their pipeline. Within 6 months of launching, Reducto went from 0→7 figures in ARR. Reducto has grown to process tens of millions of pages monthly…
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Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired
MentionsChetan PuttaguntaPatrick O'Shaughnessy
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On this special episode of Acquired, we're joined by a master interviewer himself, Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like the Best. We turn the tables and cover the most fascinating story he's never told on ILTB... his own! What is O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, and how are they bringing… More on the show's page
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