Chetan Puttagunta

General Partner at Benchmark

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2025
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
Apr 2025
Manus from Meta is the general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.
Investor
Nov 2024
Cursor is a coding agent for building ambitious software. Our goal is to help you engineer anything. Our work includes training the world’s most widely used coding models, creating infrastructure that supports billions of requests per day, and building better ways for humans and AIs to work together.
Board Member
Nov 2019
Modern Treasury is the operating system for the new era of payments, helping companies unlock growth, enhance customer experiences, and drive efficiency. The payment operations platform and best-in-class developer tools move companies forward with faster payments, effective workflows, full data visibility, and seamless bank integrations. Founded in 2018, San Francisco-based Modern Treasury serves leading companies across broad sectors of the economy like ClassPass, gusto, Marqeta, Procore, Navan, and more and is backed by investors Altimeter Capital, Benchmark, and Y Combinator. ################ Our Why We strive to become one of the best companies in the world by: Helping our customers build their own best companies. We build products to support our customers’ goals. We deliver on time and provide exceptional service. We aspire to do things right the first time, and if something goes wrong, we rectify it. Creating the conditions for personal and professional growth. We design our work environment to be uplifting and enriching, a place to engage in meaningful work, constantly learn, and pursue our long-term career journeys. Together, we create a space of psychological safety. We embrace diversity of thought, respectful debate, and intellectual curiosity. Making decisions for longevity. We focus on profitability, which protects our employees’ livelihoods and ensures our continued ability to serve customers. We do so with decency, dignity, and truthfulness, earning us the right and privilege to remain in business. We will sometimes fall short, but we are unapologetic about striving. We commit to the never-ending work it takes to build one of the world’s best companies.
Board Member
Jun 2019
The complete toolkit for selling travel online. Most of the world’s travel technology was built in a bygone era. Travel companies today need tools that are flexible enough to mould to customer expectations and powerful enough to support a growing business. Layer by layer, piece by piece, we’re rebuilding the infrastructure that underpins the travel industry to bring it into the modern era and usher in a new, effortless travel experience. We’re backed by Benchmark, Blossom, Index Ventures, Kima Ventures, and Y Combinator (S18).
Board Member
Oct 2018
Pachyderm is cost-effective at scale, enabling data engineering teams to automate complex pipelines with sophisticated data transformations across any type of data. Our unique approach provides parallelized processing of multi-stage, language-agnostic pipelines with data versioning and data lineage tracking. Pachyderm delivers the ultimate CI/CD engine for data.
Investor/ Board
Nov 2015
Nuvolo is the global leader in modern, cloud-based Connected Workplace solutions. We provide a single platform to manage all people, all physical locations, all assets, and all work – enabling data sharing across departments. Industries we serve include healthcare, life sciences, financial services, retail, government, higher education & enterprise. We’re the largest and fastest-growing independent software vendor globally, built on the ServiceNow platform. Nuvolo is headquartered in Wellesley, MA with a global workforce located throughout the North America, Europe and Asia.
Investor/ Board
Jan 2015
Workday Strategic Sourcing (formerly Scout RFP) is a leading cloud-based platform for strategic sourcing and supplier engagement, trusted by teams to streamline and re-imagine procurement processes.
Investor/ Board
Jan 2015
Workday Strategic Sourcing (formerly known as Scout RFP) is a leading cloud-based platform for strategic sourcing and supplier engagement.
Board Member
Jun 2014
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.
Investor/ Board
May 2014
Acquia empowers ambitious digital innovators to craft the most productive, frictionless digital experiences that make a difference to their customers, employees, and communities. We provide the worlds leading open digital experience platform (DXP), built on open source Drupal, as part of our commitment to shaping a digital future that is safe, accessible, and available to all. With Acquia DXP, you can unlock the potential of your customer data and content, accelerating time to market and increasing engagement, conversion, and revenue.
Investor/ Board
Apr 2013
MuleSoft, the world’s #1 integration and API platform, makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences faster. For more information, visit https://www.mulesoft.com.
Board Member
May 2012
Headquartered in New York, MongoDBs mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. Built by developers, for developers, our modern database platform is a database with an integrated set of related services that allow development teams to address the growing requirements for todays wide variety of modern applications, all in a unified and consistent user experience. MongoDB has tens of thousands of customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times since 2007, and there have been millions of builders trained through MongoDB University courses. To learn more, visit mongodb.com.
Investor/ Board
May 2012
Headquartered in New York, MongoDBs mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. Built by developers, for developers, our modern database platform is a database with an integrated set of related services that allow development teams to address the growing requirements for todays wide variety of modern applications, all in a unified and consistent user experience. MongoDB has tens of thousands of customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times since 2007, and there have been millions of builders trained through MongoDB University courses. To learn more, visit mongodb.com.
Experience · 16 entries
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2025
Board Member
Apr 2025
Manus from Meta is the general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.
2024
Investor
Nov 2024
Cursor is a coding agent for building ambitious software. Our goal is to help you engineer anything. Our work includes training the world’s most widely used coding models, creating infrastructure that supports billions of requests per day, and building better ways for humans and AIs to work together.
2019
Board Member
Nov 2019
Modern Treasury is the operating system for the new era of payments, helping companies unlock growth, enhance customer experiences, and drive efficiency. The payment operations platform and best-in-class developer tools move companies forward with faster payments, effective workflows, full data visibility, and seamless bank integrations. Founded in 2018, San Francisco-based Modern Treasury serves leading companies across broad sectors of the economy like ClassPass, gusto, Marqeta, Procore, Navan, and more and is backed by investors Altimeter Capital, Benchmark, and Y Combinator. ################ Our Why We strive to become one of the best companies in the world by: Helping our customers build their own best companies. We build products to support our customers’ goals. We deliver on time and provide exceptional service. We aspire to do things right the first time, and if something goes wrong, we rectify it. Creating the conditions for personal and professional growth. We design our work environment to be uplifting and enriching, a place to engage in meaningful work, constantly learn, and pursue our long-term career journeys. Together, we create a space of psychological safety. We embrace diversity of thought, respectful debate, and intellectual curiosity. Making decisions for longevity. We focus on profitability, which protects our employees’ livelihoods and ensures our continued ability to serve customers. We do so with decency, dignity, and truthfulness, earning us the right and privilege to remain in business. We will sometimes fall short, but we are unapologetic about striving. We commit to the never-ending work it takes to build one of the world’s best companies.
Board Member
Jun 2019
The complete toolkit for selling travel online. Most of the world’s travel technology was built in a bygone era. Travel companies today need tools that are flexible enough to mould to customer expectations and powerful enough to support a growing business. Layer by layer, piece by piece, we’re rebuilding the infrastructure that underpins the travel industry to bring it into the modern era and usher in a new, effortless travel experience. We’re backed by Benchmark, Blossom, Index Ventures, Kima Ventures, and Y Combinator (S18).
Board Member
Jan 2019
Everything you need to design, collab, prototype and handoff. What have you #MadeWithSketch?
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