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Gaurav Gupta

VC at Lightspeed, former Product exec at Splunk & Elastic

San Francisco Bay Area

Education

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2019

    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

  • Board Director

    2019

    Grafana Labs’ vision is to become the first, true open and composable observability platform that combines metrics, logs, and tracing.

  • Board Director

    2020

    Panther Labs is a cloud-first, open-source security platform designed as an alternative to legacy SIEMs.

2020

  • 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.

2021

  • 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.

  • Investor

    2022

    Stability AI is an open-source generative AI company and is behind Stable Diffusion, an AI text-to-image generator.

  • 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.

2018 - 2019

  • 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)