Investing Profile

Guru Chahal

VCFounderProduct OperatorAngel

Founder, Enterprise Partner at Lightspeed

guruchahal.comSan Francisco Bay Area

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Current Investing Position

Lightspeed Venture Partners Partner

Investment Range

$3.0M - $20.0M

Sweet Spot

$15.0M

Investments On Record

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Guru Chahal's Investments On Record (16)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Descope	SeedSep 2025$35M SeedFeb 2023$53M	$88M
Co-investors: Bipul Sinha (Lightspeed Venture Partners), John Thompson (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Nir Polak (Cyberstarts VC), Oren Yunger (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Assaf Rappaport, George Kurtz, Anshu Sharma
Ketryx	Series BSep 2025$39M Series ADec 2023$14M	$53M
Co-investors: Vinay Shah (Transformation Capital)
Exa	Series BSep 2025$85M Series AJul 2024$17M	$100M
Co-investors: Peter Fenton (Benchmark), Mei Z.
Anthropic	Series FSep 2025$13B Series EMar 2025$3.5B Series DJan 2024$750M	$22B
Co-investors: Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Yasmin Razavi (Spark Capital), Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX Ventures), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Jack Leeney (7GC & Co), Bernard Moon (SparkLabs Group), Brennda Reis (Friedom Partners), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Andrew Tan (Builders), Aatish Patel (GoAhead Ventures), Alexandre Perrin (Scalebridge Capital), Trevor Paladino (Lakeside Capital), Siddharth Singhal, Jason Haider, Elia Montanari, Ishani Patel, Adeel Hussain, Dustin Moskovitz, Vikas Sabnani, Jaan Tallinn, Preetha Parthasarathy
Cyera	Series EJun 2025$540M	$1.3B
Co-investors: Philippe Botteri (Accel), David Schneider (Coatue), Douglas Leone (Sequoia Capital), Casber Wang (Sapphire Ventures), Gili Raanan (Cyberstarts VC), Lior Simon (Cyberstarts VC), Patrick Backhouse (Greenoaks Capital), Sharin Fisher Dibrov
Virtue AI	Series AApr 2025$30M	$30M
Co-investors: Lip-Bu Tan (Walden International), Amarjit Gill (Nepenthe Capital)
Nexthop AI	Series AMar 2025$110M	$110M
Observo AI	SeedJan 2025$15M	$15M
Co-investors: Jake Storm (Felicis Ventures), Varsha Rao