Guru Chahal — Co-Founder
Founder, now Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Focused on early stage investments in cybersecurity, cloud, DevOps and infra. Previously, co-founder at Avi Networks, a network security and services company. Passionate about helping build great products, teams, and businesses - with experience in building category defining products in cyber security and cloud infra! Experienced Product Management and Marketing Executive at several startups and public companies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned investor and product strategist in the cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure sectors.
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Experience: 21 yrs 3 mos
Skills
- Venture Capital
- Product Management
- Product Strategy
- Market Share Growth
- Infrastructure Solutions
- Product Development
- Network Virtualization
Career Highlights
- Led successful IPOs for multiple cybersecurity startups.
- Expert in early-stage investments and product strategy.
- Co-founded Avi Networks, acquired by VMware.
Work Experience
Unconventional AI
Investor (1 yr 3 mos)
Ricursive Intelligence
Investor (1 yr 3 mos)
Nominal
Investor (1 yr 3 mos)
Virtue AI
Investor (1 yr 3 mos)
Cyera
Investor (2 yrs 3 mos)
Chainguard
Investor (2 yrs 3 mos)
Nexthop AI
Investor (2 yrs 3 mos)
Unsloth AI
Investor (2 yrs 3 mos)
Clutch Security
Investor (2 yrs 3 mos)
Zipline
Investor (2 yrs 3 mos)
Augment Code
Investor (2 yrs 3 mos)
Trail Security (acquired by Cyera)
Investor (0 mo)
Anthropic
Investor (3 yrs 3 mos)
Exa
Investor (3 yrs 3 mos)
Ketryx
Investor (3 yrs 3 mos)
Shortwave
Investor (3 yrs 3 mos)
Andromeda Security
Investor (3 yrs 3 mos)
Observo AI – a SentinelOne Company
Investor (2 yrs)
Big Sur AI
Investor (2 yrs)
ngrok
Investor (4 yrs 3 mos)
Descope
Investor (4 yrs 3 mos)
Radiant Security
Investor (4 yrs 3 mos)
Savvy
Investor (3 yrs)
Eve
Investor (5 yrs 3 mos)
Buf
Investor (5 yrs 3 mos)
Purdue University Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisory Board Member (5 yrs 3 mos)
Tilt Dev
Investor (1 yr)
Noname Security
Investor (4 yrs)
Infiot
Investor (2 yrs)
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Partner (7 yrs 3 mos)
Arrcus, Inc.
Investor (7 yrs 3 mos)
AMD Pensando
Investor (3 yrs)
Catalina Labs, Inc.
Investor (1 yr)
Avi Networks
Co-Founder (6 yrs)
NodePrime
Investor (3 yrs)
Zscaler
Investor (14 yrs 3 mos)
Origami Logic
Investor (7 yrs)
Avere Systems
Investor (6 yrs)
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Venture Partner (2 yrs)
Cisco
Director, Product Management via Nuova Systems acquisition (2 yrs)
Nuova Systems
Product Lead - Infra (3 yrs)
Tropos Networks
Staff (1 yr)
Education
Electrical Engineering at Purdue University
