Chetan Puttagunta
Chetan Puttagunta is a general partner at Benchmark, focusing on AI and enterprise software. He previously was a general partner at NEA for seven years and led investments in MuleSoft, MongoDB, and Elastic.
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- NEA · general partnerseven years
- Benchmark · General PartnerNow
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Who is Chetan Puttagunta?
Chetan Puttagunta is a general partner at Benchmark, focusing on AI and enterprise software. He previously was a general partner at NEA for seven years and led investments in MuleSoft, MongoDB, and Elastic.
How much does Chetan Puttagunta invest?
Chetan Puttagunta invests through Benchmark, which writes checks of $3M to $30M+ at seed, series a.
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What did Chetan Puttagunta do before Benchmark?
general partner at NEA.
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