Guru Chahal is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners where he invests in early-stage cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, observability/ops tools, application development, enterprise software, and AI companies. He invests in the United States across Seed, Series A, Series B, and Series E stages. He serves on the advisory board of the Purdue University Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and has invested in companies like Anthropic, Chainguard, Cyera, ngrok, and Zscaler. Before Lightspeed, he was Co-Founder at Avi Networks, Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, Director of Product Management at Cisco (via the Nuova Systems acquisition), Product Lead at Nuova Systems, and Staff at Tropos Networks. Guru holds a degree from Purdue University and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, United States.
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