# Chetan Puttagunta at Benchmark

> Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner at Benchmark. The rounds they were named in and the filings that name them, each with its source.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/person/chetan-puttagunta (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

San Francisco, US · Partner

# Chetan Puttagunta

General Partner at [Benchmark](https://millionrounds.com/fund/benchmark)

Profile summary

- **Rounds named:** - none observed
- **Filings:** 12 with regulators
- **Podcasts:** 6 +5 mentions

What this record rests on

- **Named in rounds** No round names them yet
- ✓ **On filings** 12 filings with a regulator
- ✓ **Linked to a firm** At Benchmark
- **Claimed** Not claimed yet

Titles come from filings their firm signed.

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## The firm

[**Benchmark** VC firm · US **36** cheques in 12 months **587** all time **18** led deploying](https://millionrounds.com/fund/benchmark)

## Where they are named on record

Filings

- SEC Form D · Venture Capital fund **[Benchmark](https://millionrounds.com/fund/benchmark)** Managing Member of the General Partner on 12 filings · since 2024
- SEC Form D · Company raising **Bezi, Inc.** Director since 2023
- SEC Form D · Company raising **AIRBYTE, INC.** Director since 2021
- SEC Form D · Company raising **Logik Systems, Inc.** Director since 2018
- SEC Form D · Company raising **Elasticsearch Global BV** Director since 2017
- SEC Form D · Company raising **SiteTraker, Inc.** Director since 2017
- SEC Form D · Company raising **ScoutRFP, Inc.** Director since 2017
- SEC Form D · Company raising **Reltio, Inc.** Director on 3 filings · since 2016
- SEC Form D · Company raising **Folloze, Inc.** Director since 2016
- SEC Form D · Company raising **Heap Inc.** Director on 2 filings · since 2015
- SEC Form D · Company raising **Placester, Inc.** Director on 2 filings · since 2015
- SEC Form D · Company raising **Canopy Tax, Inc.** Director on 4 filings · since 2015

Each row is a document a firm filed with a regulator: somebody signed it, and it carries a date.

## Also at Benchmark

- [**Andy Rachleff** Venture Capitalist from San Francisco. Andy Is the Executive Chairman & Board *8 rounds*](https://millionrounds.com/person/andy-rachleff)
- [**Matt Cohler** General Partner *4 rounds*](https://millionrounds.com/person/matt-cohler-2)
- [**Bruce Dunlevie** GP *2 rounds*](https://millionrounds.com/person/bruce-dunlevie)
- [**Peter Fenton** Member *2 rounds*](https://millionrounds.com/person/peter-fenton)
- [**Bill Gurley** General Partner *1 round*](https://millionrounds.com/person/bill-gurley)
- [**Bob Kagle** General Partner *1 round*](https://millionrounds.com/person/bob-kagle)
- [**Kevin Harvey** General Partner *1 round*](https://millionrounds.com/person/kevin-harvey)
- [**Mitch Lasky** Co-Owner *1 round*](https://millionrounds.com/person/mitch-lasky)

## Hear them before you pitch them

- [The Peel](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/the-peel) · 4 Mar 2026 · 1h 30m Benchmark’s Chetan Puttagunta on the Past, Present, & Future of Software With [Chetan Puttagunta](https://millionrounds.com/person/chetan-puttagunta) Mentions [Everett Randle](https://millionrounds.com/person/everett-randle) About this episode 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 Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page
- [Invest Like the Best](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/invest-like-the-best) · 6 Dec 2024 · 1h 37m Chetan Puttagunta and Modest Proposal - Capital, Compute & AI Scaling - [Invest Like the Best, EP.400] With [Chetan Puttagunta](https://millionrounds.com/person/chetan-puttagunta) About this episode 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 Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page
- [Invest Like the Best](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/invest-like-the-best) · 25 Aug 2020 · 1h 3m Chetan Puttagunta and Jeremiah Lowin – Open Source Crash Course - [Invest Like the Best, EP.188] With [Chetan Puttagunta](https://millionrounds.com/person/chetan-puttagunta) About this episode 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 Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page
- [Invest Like the Best](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/invest-like-the-best) · 13 Mar 2020 · 41 min Bill Gurley and Chetan Puttagunta – An Update on Consumer & Enterprise Venture Capital - [Invest Like the Best, EP.162] With [Bill Gurley](https://millionrounds.com/person/bill-gurley)[Chetan Puttagunta](https://millionrounds.com/person/chetan-puttagunta) Their book [Runnin' Down a Dream](https://millionrounds.com/person/bill-gurley#books) About this episode 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 Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page
- [Invest Like the Best](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/invest-like-the-best) · 28 Jan 2020 · 1h 23m Chetan Puttagunta – Go Slow to Go Fast: Software Building and Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.156] With [Chetan Puttagunta](https://millionrounds.com/person/chetan-puttagunta) About this episode 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 Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page
- [Village Global Podcast](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/village-global) · 3 Dec 2019 · 59 min Benchmark and Investing in Open Source with Eric Vishria and Chetan Puttagunta With [Chetan Puttagunta](https://millionrounds.com/person/chetan-puttagunta)[Eric Vishria](https://millionrounds.com/person/eric-vishria) Mentions [Brett Bolkowy](https://millionrounds.com/person/brett-bolkowy) About this episode 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 Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page

### Mentioned in

Episodes that name Chetan Puttagunta in their description, which is not the same as being on them.

- [StrictlyVC Download](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/strictlyvc-download) · 21 Oct 2026 · 44 min Benchmark's Five Partners on AI, IPOs, and Silicon Valley's Comeback Mentions [Jack Altman](https://millionrounds.com/fund/jack-altman)[Chetan Puttagunta](https://millionrounds.com/person/chetan-puttagunta)[Everett Randle](https://millionrounds.com/person/everett-randle)[Peter Fenton](https://millionrounds.com/person/peter-fenton) About this episode 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.… Listen on Apple Podcasts
- [Uncapped](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/uncapped) · 4 Feb 2026 · 57 min Uncapped #41 | The Benchmark Partnership Mentions [Chetan Puttagunta](https://millionrounds.com/person/chetan-puttagunta)[Eric Vishria](https://millionrounds.com/person/eric-vishria)[Peter Fenton](https://millionrounds.com/person/peter-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 Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page
- [The Peel](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/the-peel) · 23 Oct 2025 · 1h 19m Inside 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 Mentions [Chetan Puttagunta](https://millionrounds.com/person/chetan-puttagunta)[Liz Wessel](https://millionrounds.com/person/liz-wessel) About this episode 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 Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page
- [In Depth](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/in-depth) · 29 Apr 2025 · 1h 0m How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (Co-founder & CEO at Reducto) Mentions [Chetan Puttagunta](https://millionrounds.com/person/chetan-puttagunta)[Diana Hu](https://millionrounds.com/person/diana-hu)[Liz Wessel](https://millionrounds.com/person/liz-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… Listen on Apple Podcasts
- [Acquired](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/acquired) · 7 Oct 2020 · 1h 42m Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired Mentions [Chetan Puttagunta](https://millionrounds.com/person/chetan-puttagunta)[Patrick O'Shaughnessy](https://millionrounds.com/person/patrick-o-shaughnessy) About this episode 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 Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page

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