Investing Profile

Guru Chahal

VCFounderProduct OperatorAngel
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
guruchahal.comSan Francisco Bay Area
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Networks Guru is a member of
Lightspeed Venture Partners Network
123 CONNECTIONS
Lightspeed Venture Partners Network
123 CONNECTIONS
Anthropic Network
87 CONNECTIONS
Cyera Network
18 CONNECTIONS
Chainguard Network
16 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout Partner
Investment Range
$3.0M - $20.0M
Sweet Spot
$15.0M
Investments On Record
61

Guru Chahal is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Guru Chahal's Investments On Record (33)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
A Security
Series UnknownJun 2026$37M
$37M
Co-investors: Assaf Rappaport (Mensch Capital Partners)
Cyera
Series GJun 2026$600M
Series FDec 2025$400M
Series EJun 2025$540M
$2.3B
Co-investors: Jordan Segall (Redpoint Ventures), Alex Bard (Redpoint Ventures), Douglas Leone (Sequoia Capital), Casber Wang (Sapphire Ventures), Bogomil Balkansky (Sequoia Capital), Richard Seewald (Evolution Equity Partners), Gili Raanan (Cyberstarts VC), Lior Simon (Cyberstarts VC), Philippe Botteri (Accel Partners), Patrick Backhouse (Greenoaks Capital), David Schneider (Coatue Management), Sharin Fisher Dibrov (Fort Ross Ventures)
Nexthop AI
Series BMar 2026$500M
Series AMar 2025$110M
$610M
Nominal
Series BMar 2026$80M
Series BJun 2025$75M
$210M
Co-investors: Paul Kwan (General Catalyst), Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Trae Stephens (Founders Fund), Delian Asparouhov (Founders Fund), Anas Biad (Sequoia Capital), Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital), Bilal Zuberi (Lux Capital), Kyle Lui (Bling Capital), Matthew Cowan (Next47), Ravi Mhatre (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout)
Anthropic
Series GFeb 2026$30B
Series FSep 2025$13B
Series EMar 2025$3.5B
Series DJan 2024$750M
$100B
Co-investors: Sameer Dholakia (Bessemer Venture Partners), Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX Ventures), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Yasmin Razavi (Spark Capital), Hugo Van Roy (Sequoia Capital), Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Marc Stad (Dragoneer Investment Group), Neil Mehta (Greenoaks Capital), Brad Gerstner (Altimeter Capital), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Ravi Mhatre (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Anis Uzzaman (Pegasus Tech Ventures), Matt Murphy (Kleiner Perkins), Trevor Paladino (Lakeside Capital), Siddharth Singhal (trilitech), Bernard Moon (SparkLabs Korea), Vikas Sabnani (Stealth Company (Vikas Sabnani)), Jack Leeney (7 Global Capital), Adeel Hussain (Stagsted Properties), Preetha Parthasarathy (SAP.iO fund), Alexandre Perrin (Cleverton Ventures), Aatish Patel (MintInvestor), Ishani Patel, Dustin Moskovitz, Jaan Tallinn, Jason Haider
Ricursive Intelligence
Series AJan 2026$300M
$340M
Co-investors: Stephanie Zhan (Sequoia Capital), Brian Zhan (CRV), James Detweiler (Felicis Ventures), Ravi Mhatre (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Brian Zhan (Striker Venture Partners)
Unconventional AI
SeedDec 2025$480M
$480M
Co-investors: Matt Bornstein (Andreessen Horowitz), Peter Barrett (Playground Global), Bucky Moore (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Ravi Mhatre (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Jeff Bezos
Descope
SeedSep 2025$35M
SeedFeb 2023$53M
$88M
Co-investors: Nir Polak (SignalFire), Bipul Sinha (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Oren Yunger (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Ravi Mhatre (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Assaf Rappaport (Mensch Capital Partners), John Thompson (Riverwood Capital Management), Anshu Sharma (Storm Ventures), George Kurtz

Guru Chahal's Experience

Investor Radiant SecurityPresent
Investor Observo.aiPresent
Investor Big Sur AIPresent
Investor ShortwavePresent
Investor AnthropicPresent
Investor ExaPresent
Investor KetryxPresent
Investor Andromeda SecurityPresent
Investor Trail Security (acquired by Cyera)Present
Investor ChainguardPresent
Investor Nexthop AIPresent
Investor Unsloth AIPresent
Investor Clutch SecurityPresent
Investor ZiplinePresent
Investor Augment CodePresent
Investor CyeraPresent
Investor Unconventional AIPresent
Investor Ricursive IntelligencePresent
Investor NominalPresent
Investor Virtue AIPresent
Investor SandstonePresent
Venture Partner Lightspeed Venture PartnersPresent
Co-Founder Avi NetworksPresent
Co-Founder VMware Avi Load BalancerPresent
Partner Lightspeed Venture PartnersPresent

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