Chetan Puttagunta
General Partner @ Benchmark
San Francisco, United States
Chetan Puttagunta is a Series A investor at Benchmark in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Chetan Puttagunta is based out of San Francisco, California and is the General Partner of Benchmark. Chetan previously worked at New Enterprise Associates as a General Partner. Chetan Puttagunta attended Stanford University. Chetan Puttagunta has been named as GrowthCap’s Top 40 under 40 Growth Investors, Forbes 30 under 30 All-Star Alumni List, and Forbes’ 30 under 30 in Venture Capital.
- Total investments:
- 70
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 59%
Last updated:
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Industries Chetan Puttagunta invests in
Stages Chetan Puttagunta invests in
Countries Chetan Puttagunta invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 16 (23%)
- SaaS 12 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (11%)
- Open Source 7 (10%)
- Analytics 6 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 20 (29%)
- Series B 19 (27%)
- Seed 9 (13%)
- Series C 9 (13%)
- Series D 3 (4%)
Country
- United States 27 (39%)
- Sweden 2 (3%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
- The Netherlands 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Numeral is a tax compliance software company that helps businesses manage sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations. | $100M / Series C / Sep 23, 2026 | ||
| Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships. | $17M / Series A / Nov 06, 2025 | ||
| Legora develops an artificial intelligence software platform designed to support legal professionals in tasks such as document review, drafting, and legal research. The platform analyzes large volumes of legal documents, identifies relevant clauses or issues, and suggests edits or language based on prior legal materials and user inputs. Itintegrates with commonly used legal and document management tools, allowing lawyers to work within applications such as word processing systems and internal knowledge repositories. Legora also enables users to search legal databases and internal firm documents from a unified workspace, helping legal teams access information and precedents within a single interface. The system supports collaboration by allowing multiple users to review materials, generate summaries, and organize findings during legal workflows. Its software is used by law firms and in-house legal teams to manage research, document preparation, and information analysis associated with legal matters. | $150M / Series C / Oct 30, 2025 | ||
| Reducto's API converts unstructured documents into structured outputs for RAG, process automation, and more. | $75M / Series B / Oct 14, 2025 | ||
| Summation delivers a decision-grade AI platform that helps enterprise teams to generate insights, automate workflows, and surface strategic opportunities. It consolidates data across systems such as ERP, CRM, EPM, and warehouses and enables leaders to trace analytical results back to source records for auditability and confidence. The platformincludes modules for finance, operations, revenue, and executive overview.Summation supports “Verified Tasks,” which automate report generation and analysis, and “Deep Dive,” which uses AI agents to explore large numbers of business questions in parallel. During deployment, the company offers a “Forward Deployed” model in which its engineers collaborate with clients to map workflows, model key metrics, and integrate systems. | $21M / Series A / Oct 01, 2025 | ||
| Summation delivers a decision-grade AI platform that helps enterprise teams to generate insights, automate workflows, and surface strategic opportunities. It consolidates data across systems such as ERP, CRM, EPM, and warehouses and enables leaders to trace analytical results back to source records for auditability and confidence. The platformincludes modules for finance, operations, revenue, and executive overview.Summation supports “Verified Tasks,” which automate report generation and analysis, and “Deep Dive,” which uses AI agents to explore large numbers of business questions in parallel. During deployment, the company offers a “Forward Deployed” model in which its engineers collaborate with clients to map workflows, model key metrics, and integrate systems. | $12.4M / Seed / Oct 01, 2025 | ||
| Numeral is a tax compliance software company that helps businesses manage sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations. | $35M / Series B / Sep 18, 2025 | ||
| Levelpath is a software development company that offers a platform to manage procurement services. The company's procurement platform maps the process so everyone can find where they need to go while streamlining workflows and approvals for enterprises of all sizes. Its solution also offers an intuitive workflow for employees engaging with theprocurement team, customized to meet each company’s compliance and procurement parameters. | $55M / Series B / Jun 30, 2025 | ||
| Leya believes in lowering the barriers to technology within the legal sector. Leya offers reliable, referenced responses by integrating internal knowledge databases and external laws, cases, and regulations. | Series B / May 21, 2025 | ||
| Legora develops an artificial intelligence software platform designed to support legal professionals in tasks such as document review, drafting, and legal research. The platform analyzes large volumes of legal documents, identifies relevant clauses or issues, and suggests edits or language based on prior legal materials and user inputs. Itintegrates with commonly used legal and document management tools, allowing lawyers to work within applications such as word processing systems and internal knowledge repositories. Legora also enables users to search legal databases and internal firm documents from a unified workspace, helping legal teams access information and precedents within a single interface. The system supports collaboration by allowing multiple users to review materials, generate summaries, and organize findings during legal workflows. Its software is used by law firms and in-house legal teams to manage research, document preparation, and information analysis associated with legal matters. | $80M / Series B / May 21, 2025 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Benchmark
Benchmark invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. They focus on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, and infrastructure and enterprise software. Founded in 1995, the firm has offices in Woodside and San Francisco, California. The firm has been recognized for its commitment to open source and is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. The five equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur and company they back, with no junior investment staff. Current general partners are Chetan Puttagunta, Sarah Tavel, Victor Lazarte, Peter Fenton, and Eric Vishria. Benchmark has had 37 exits since beginning of 2011; 14 IPOs and 23 M&As representing a total market value of more than $60 billion. Benchmark’s current portfolio of early-stage venture investments includes private market leaders such as Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, Stitch Fix, Elastic and Cyanogen; recent IPOs and acquisitions such as Twitter, Instagram, Yelp, League of Legends, Jasper, OpenTable, New Relic, Hortonworks, Amplitude, Confluent, GrubHub, Zendesk and Zillow; and franchise companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat.
Benchmark Contacts
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Ben Rubin
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What does Chetan Puttagunta invest in?
Chetan Puttagunta invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 70 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Chetan Puttagunta last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Chetan Puttagunta closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 70 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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