Gaurav Gupta
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2019 - Current
I'm a Partner on the early-stage team (primarily Seed, Series A, B), focused on enterprise/B2B companies. Companies I'm currently involved with include: • Grafana Labs (www.grafana.com) - Led Series A and Series B, Board Director • Panther (www.runpanther.io) - Led Series A, Board Director • Hasura (www.hasura.io) - Led Series B, Board Director • ClickHouse (www.clickhouse.com) - Participated in Series B, Board Observer • Polar Signals (www.polarsignals.com) - Co-led Seed round • Ponder (www.ponder.io) - Led Seed round • Stability AI (www.stability.ai) - Investor
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Board Director
2019
Grafana Labs’ vision is to become the first, true open and composable observability platform that combines metrics, logs, and tracing.
Grafana Accelerator Program offer grants, equity financing, and developer access for early-stage companies.
Board Director
2020
Panther Labs is a cloud-first, open-source security platform designed as an alternative to legacy SIEMs.
Board Director
2020
Hasura, the data access infrastructure company, helps organizations accelerate product delivery by instantly connecting databases and services to applications via GraphQL.
Board Observer
2021
ClickHouse is an open-source, high performance columnar OLAP database for real-time analytics.
ClickHouse is a developer of an online analytical processing (OLAP) database management system.
Raised $300,000,000.00 from Thrive Capital, Redpoint, Altimeter Capital, Coatue, FirstMark, Index Ventures, Almaz Capital, Lead Edge Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Benchmark.
Seed Investor
2021
Ponder provides tools for rapid, flexible experimentation with data at scale, and commercializes open-source projects, Modin and Lux.
Seed Investor
2021
Polar Signals is a continuous profiling project for applications and infrastructure. It helps you save money, improve performance and understand incidents better.
Polar Signals is a profiling platform designed to measure and understand performance over time.
Raised $10,774,936.00 from Monica Sarbu, Spark Capital, Nikhil Benesch, Haystack, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Guillermo Rauch, Google Ventures, Lorimer Ventures, Julius Volz and Jimmy Zelinskie.
Board Director
2024
GRAMMY Award-winning Ragazzi Boys Chorus, provides outstanding musical education and performance opportunities for boys and young men ages 5 to 18.
Ragazzi provides outstanding musical education and choral performance opportunities for boys and young men.
Advisor & Investor
2018 - 2019
Involved as an advisor/investor to a number of companies including Resilience (cyberinsurance), BigPanda (AIOps), Blameless (platform for SREs), Cribl (observability data pipeline), Exabeam (next-gen SIEM), Pinecone (Vector database for ML), Ikigai Labs (stealth), Impira (AI-charged spreadsheet), Rockset (real-time analytics DB), Timescale (open source time-series DB), Antara Health (healthcare in Africa)
VP Product
2014 - 2018
Elastic (fka "Elasticsearch") is an open source company that is building the future of search and analytics. I was the first product hire and built the Product team from 1 to 45 people, part of the exec team, and was responsible for a range of functions including product management, product/technical marketing, developer relations, and pricing. My team was responsible for all things across open source, commercial, and cloud products/services. During my tenure the company grew to ~900 people and over $150M in revenue. The company went public in Oct 2018 (NYSE: ESTC) https://www.elastic.co/blog/joined-elasticsearch
Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
Raised $161,999,996.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund.