Chetan Puttagunta invests at seed and Series A as a general partner at Benchmark, focusing on enterprise software, developer tools, infrastructure and AI. He chairs Elastic’s board and previously invested at NEA, where he led investments in MuleSoft and MongoDB.
Chetan Puttagunta invests at seed and Series A as a general partner at Benchmark, focusing on enterprise software, developer tools, infrastructure and AI. He chairs Elastic’s board and previously invested at NEA, where he led investments in MuleSoft and MongoDB.
Career
Chetan Puttagunta holds a BS, Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Chairman of the Board and Lead Independent Director at Elastic from 2022-01 to PresentBoard member since January 2017 and lead independent director since June 2018; Chairman since January 2022.MTBoard Member at Modern Treasury from 2019 to Present
General Partner at Benchmark from 2018-07 to Present
Board Member at Starcloud until Present
Board Member at Manus from 2025 to 2025
General Partner at New Enterprise Associates from 2016-10 to 2018-07Joined NEA in April 2011 before promotion to General Partner in October 2016. Investments included Elastic, MongoDB, MuleSoft, Sentry, and Forter.HCInvestment Professional, Leveraged Buyout Group at H.I.G. Capital from 2009 to 2011
HLTechnology Investment Banker at Houlihan Lokey from 2007 to 2009
Investing Announcements
Cosigns Received
AditCo-founder and CEO of Reducto
We really liked Chetan at Benchmark. … every dinner, it just ended up being a really productive conversation
Jean LafleurCo-founder & COO at Airbyte
each interaction with Chetan and the Benchmark team was bringing immense value and extremely relevant advice.
