Guru Chahal

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, Founder, Engineer

📍 Los Altos, California, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 40 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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2026
Sandstone is the Legal Relationship Management system that coordinates a delightful day-to-day for legal departments. The platform that centralizes intake, context, and flags issues before they happen. It connects every workflow to the business relationship behind it and operationalizes legal knowledge through supervised agents.
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2026
Squash is an AI technician purpose-built for MSPs. It autonomously resolves ~80% of L1 and L2 IT support tickets end to end. Unlike AI support tools that stop at triage, summaries, or recommendations, Squash diagnoses issues and resolves them directly in your existing tech stack. Squash operates with built-in guardrails and auditability so MSPs can safely deploy autonomous resolution in production environments, even when documentation is incomplete and systems are not standardized. MSPs are using Squash to deliver faster response times, consistent 24/7 support, increase technician capacity, and improve service margins.
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2025
Virtue AI sets the standard for advanced AI security platforms. Built on decades of foundational and award-winning research in AI security, its AI-native architecture unifies automated red-teaming, real-time multimodal guardrails, and policy-driven governance for enterprise agents, models, and apps. Virtue AI safeguards every MCP, input, and output—spanning text, code, image, video, and audio—in over 100 languages, detecting risks in sub-10 ms. Deploy in minutes across cloud, on-prem, or SaaS environments, or integrate directly with tools like ChatGPT and VS Code. With Virtue AI as your authenticated third-party partner, enterprises achieve unified visibility and assurance throughout the AI lifecycle—driving innovation without slowing performance.
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2025
Designed by leaders who’ve broken into some of the most secure targets on earth, led incident response for the breaches that made headlines, and built the tooling Fortune 500 security stacks run on, Ⓐ Security is an autonomous offensive security platform that delivers an agentic team of cyber attackers who relentlessly apply pressure to your environment the way real-world adversaries do. With offensive-minded security being the shift we aim to drive in the market, our agentic platform runs continuously, maps actual cross-domain exploit paths, chains discovered vulnerabilities together, and then proves exploitability with a fully logged, audit-ready trail. Once a path is mapped, Ⓐ Security fixes it at the source and adjusts compensating controls automatically to help you reduce would-be risk to your organization. Learn more here: https://a.security/
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2025
Drawbridge is the process intelligence platform for enterprise transformation. We make work visible by mapping how operations actually run so teams can redesign them with confidence.
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2025
A frontier AI lab enabling a recursive self-improvement loop between AI and the chips that fuel it.
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2025
Unconventional AI is rethinking the foundations of a computer to optimize energy efficiency for AI. Founded by experts in AI systems, analog circuits, computing theory, and neuroscience, we are bringing biology-scale efficiency to artificial intelligence.
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2025
Nominal builds the essential software stack that enables hardware teams to test and iterate as rapidly as software teams. Nominal empowers engineers to continuously monitor, validate, and deploy innovations, transforming how mission-critical hardware is built and operated.
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2024
Easily finetune & train LLMs. Get faster with unsloth.
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2024
Cyera is the industry-leading AI Security Platform. As AI transforms how data is created, accessed, and used, Cyeras mission is to enable global enterprises to adopt AI at scale by securing the data that fuels it. The platform provides organizations with precise visibility, and intelligent controls to secure data everywhere - at rest, in motion, and in use, whether used by humans or agents. Valued at $9 billion and backed by more than $1.7 billion in funding from top-tier investors including Accel, Blackstone, Cyberstarts, Georgian, Lightspeed, and Sequoia, Cyera is trusted by a growing number of Fortune 1000 companies adopting AI across their enterprise at scale.
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2024
Nexthop AI is a cohesive team of seasoned industry experts, who through their collaborative product design as well as system and network engineering capabilities are building innovative networking products and solutions for Hyperscalers and NeoClouds. Nexthop is headquartered in Santa Clara with additional locations in Seattle, Vancouver, Dublin and Bengaluru, India. For more information visit http://nexthop.ai
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2024
Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Its customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. For more information, visit: https://www.chainguard.dev/
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2024
Clutch is addressing the increasingly critical challenge of non-human identity security within modern enterprises. As digital infrastructures expand and become more complex, the management and security of non-human identities—ranging from API keys and secrets to tokens and service accounts—have emerged as a pivotal yet often neglected aspect of cybersecurity. Recognizing this gap, Clutch is developing an enterprise platform dedicated to the comprehensive protection and management of these identities. Our solution is designed to fortify the digital backbone of enterprises, ensuring a secure, resilient, and trustworthy environment for their operations.
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2024
Zipline was founded to create the first logistics system that serves all humans equally. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges. Leveraging expertise in robotics and autonomy, Zipline designs, manufactures and operates the world’s largest automated delivery system. Zipline serves tens of millions of people around the world and is making good on the promise of building an equitable and more resilient global supply chain. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart and enabling leading healthcare providers to bring care into the home in the United States, Zipline is transforming the way goods move. By transitioning to clean, electric, instant logistics, we can decarbonize delivery, decrease road congestion, and reduce fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access for billions of people. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Zipline is inspiring people, governments, and businesses to imagine what is possible when goods can move as seamlessly as information. To join the team, check out our career page: https://flyzipline.com/careers/
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2024
Augment is the AI coding platform built for enterprises - powered by a highly secure, production-grade Context Engine developed over 2.5 years in stealth until our public launch in November 2024. Augment semantically indexes your entire codebase, documentation, dependencies, and internal knowledge in real time to enable devs to ship code faster, onboard in days instead of months, and modernize legacy systems with confidence. We are alumni of global-leading AI and cloud companies including Google, Meta, NVIDIA, Snowflake, and Databricks - all on a mission to provide enterprises with context that actually understands your codebase. If, like us, you believe in augmenting and not replacing software developers, join us on our mission to improve software development at scale using AI.
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2026
Sandstone is the Legal Relationship Management system that coordinates a delightful day-to-day for legal departments. The platform that centralizes intake, context, and flags issues before they happen. It connects every workflow to the business relationship behind it and operationalizes legal knowledge through supervised agents.
Investor
2026
Squash is an AI technician purpose-built for MSPs. It autonomously resolves ~80% of L1 and L2 IT support tickets end to end. Unlike AI support tools that stop at triage, summaries, or recommendations, Squash diagnoses issues and resolves them directly in your existing tech stack. Squash operates with built-in guardrails and auditability so MSPs can safely deploy autonomous resolution in production environments, even when documentation is incomplete and systems are not standardized. MSPs are using Squash to deliver faster response times, consistent 24/7 support, increase technician capacity, and improve service margins.
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2025
Virtue AI sets the standard for advanced AI security platforms. Built on decades of foundational and award-winning research in AI security, its AI-native architecture unifies automated red-teaming, real-time multimodal guardrails, and policy-driven governance for enterprise agents, models, and apps. Virtue AI safeguards every MCP, input, and output—spanning text, code, image, video, and audio—in over 100 languages, detecting risks in sub-10 ms. Deploy in minutes across cloud, on-prem, or SaaS environments, or integrate directly with tools like ChatGPT and VS Code. With Virtue AI as your authenticated third-party partner, enterprises achieve unified visibility and assurance throughout the AI lifecycle—driving innovation without slowing performance.
Investor
2025
Designed by leaders who’ve broken into some of the most secure targets on earth, led incident response for the breaches that made headlines, and built the tooling Fortune 500 security stacks run on, Ⓐ Security is an autonomous offensive security platform that delivers an agentic team of cyber attackers who relentlessly apply pressure to your environment the way real-world adversaries do. With offensive-minded security being the shift we aim to drive in the market, our agentic platform runs continuously, maps actual cross-domain exploit paths, chains discovered vulnerabilities together, and then proves exploitability with a fully logged, audit-ready trail. Once a path is mapped, Ⓐ Security fixes it at the source and adjusts compensating controls automatically to help you reduce would-be risk to your organization. Learn more here: https://a.security/
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2025
Drawbridge is the process intelligence platform for enterprise transformation. We make work visible by mapping how operations actually run so teams can redesign them with confidence.
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