Guru Chahal

Menlo Park, California, United States

Bio

Professional summary

Guru Chahal is a Partner at Lightspeed investing primarily in enterprise sectors including security, DevOps, observability, cloud infrastructure, and application development. He joined Lightspeed as an investor in 2012 after Nuova Systems was acquired by Cisco, and worked on investments including Zscaler, Avere Systems, and Avi Networks. He later became the fourth co-founder of Avi Networks, which VMware acquired in 2019, before returning to venture.

Notable companies

Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed

ZscalerAvere SystemsAvi NetworksFireworks AIAnthropic

Background

Career, education, and skills

Career history

Lightspeed Venture PartnersPartnerPresent
Avi NetworksCo-founder2019
Lightspeed Venture PartnersInvestor2012
Nuova SystemsStartup Operator

Education

Purdue UniversityMSEE2000

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