# Chetan Puttagunta

> Chetan Puttagunta is a Series A investor at Benchmark backing Software. See 47 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Benchmark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benchmark)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 47
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chetan-puttagunta/2/2ba/941
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/chetanp
- Website: https://x.com/chetanp
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chetanp5

Chetan Puttagunta is a Series A investor at Benchmark in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Chetan Puttagunta is based out of Bellevue, Washington, and is the General Partner of Benchmark and Board of Summation. Chetan previously worked at Scout RFP as a Investor/ Board. Chetan Puttagunta attended Stanford University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 23% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 13% |
| SaaS | 5 | 11% |
| Legal | 3 | 6% |
| FinTech | 3 | 6% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 15 | 32% |
| Series B | 14 | 30% |
| Seed | 7 | 15% |
| Series C | 6 | 13% |
| Series D | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 38% |
| Sweden | 2 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| fomo | Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships. | $17M | Series A | Nov 06, 2025 |  |
| Legora | 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 | Reducto's API converts unstructured documents into structured outputs for RAG, process automation, and more. | $75M | Series B | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| Summation | 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 | 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 | Numeral creates to make it as simple as possible for e-commerce entrepreneurs to handle sales tax. | $35M | Series B | Sep 18, 2025 |  |
| Levelpath | 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 |  |
| Legora | 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 | 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 |  |
| Reducto | Reducto's API converts unstructured documents into structured outputs for RAG, process automation, and more. | $24.5M | Series A | Apr 25, 2025 |  |

10 of 47 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Redpoint](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redpoint-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Altimeter Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altimeter-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Uncork Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softtech-vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Benchmark

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

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 itscommitment 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.

5 contacts available at Benchmark.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bruce Dunlevie | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruce-dunlevie |
| Chetan Puttagunta | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chetan-puttagunta |
| Peter Fenton | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-fenton |
| Alex Balkanski | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-balkanski |
| Ben Rubin | Entrepreneur In Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-rubin |

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## FAQ

### What does Chetan Puttagunta invest in?

Chetan Puttagunta invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 47 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Chetan Puttagunta last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chetan Puttagunta closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 47 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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