Gaurav Gupta

Menlo Park, California, United States

Bio

Professional summary

Gaurav Gupta is a Partner at Lightspeed in Menlo Park focused on enterprise investing. Before joining Lightspeed in 2019, he spent more than a decade in product leadership at Splunk and Elastic, serving as VP of Product at both companies as they scaled from early-stage startups to IPOs. His Lightspeed investment work includes enterprise and infrastructure companies such as Stability AI and Panther.

Notable companies

Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed

Stability AIPantherGrafana LabsClickHouseHasura

Background

Career, education, and skills

Career history

Lightspeed Venture PartnersPartner2019 – Present
ElasticVP of Product
SplunkVP of Product
Harvard Business SchoolMBA Candidate
GatewayTurnaround team
McKenna GroupStrategy consultant

Education

Harvard Business SchoolMBA
Princeton UniversityB.S. in Electrical Engineering

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