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Chetan Puttagunta

General partner at Benchmark Capital Partners

DirectorRoles at 3 startups
Updated Nov 10, 2026·Latest SEC filing Nov 4, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Chetan Puttagunta

Chetan Puttagunta is a general partner at Benchmark Capital Partners, a role he has held since July 2018. He was a general partner at New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital firm, from October 2016 to July 2018, after joining the firm in April 2011.

He is a director of Legora, Inc. He served as a director of Elastic N.V. starting in January 2017 and became its lead independent director in June 2018.

Experience

This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Chetan Puttagunta in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

Legora, Inc. Current
Director
2025 – Present · Dover, DE
Legora builds an agentic AI operating system that helps law firms and in-house legal teams research, review, and draft work together.
Benchmark Capital Partners Current
General Partner
2018 – Present
FOMO Labs Inc.
Director
2026 · New York, NY
A crypto trading app where traders can follow others and explore trade ideas.
Bezi, Inc.
Director
2023 · Oakland, CA
Elastic N.V.
Director (2017 – 2018)
Lead Independent Director (From 2018)
2017 – 2018
New Enterprise Associates
General Partner
2016 – 2018

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Chetan Puttagunta works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

Legora, Inc. · Form D, Nov 4, 2026
SL
Sigge Labor
Executive officer and director
JE
Jacob Effron
Director
MJ
Max Junestrand
Co-founder & CEO, director
Arun Mathew
Arun Mathew
Director
FOMO Labs Inc. · Form D, Jun 3, 2026
PE
Paul Erlanger
Founder and CEO, director
SP
Se Yong Park
Director
JA
Julia Andre
Director
Bezi, Inc. · Form D, Nov 17, 2023
SL
Susan Liu
Director
CU
Cecilia Uhr
Director
JP
Julian Park
Chief Executive Officer and director

Sources

  1. SECLegora, Inc. Form D, filed Nov 4, 2026
  2. SECFOMO Labs Inc. Form D, filed Jun 3, 2026
  3. SECBezi, Inc. Form D, filed Nov 17, 2023
  4. sec_filingElastic N.V. S-1/A, September 24, 2018
  5. sec_filingElastic N.V. S-1/A, October 2, 2018