Gaurav Gupta

Gaurav Gupta, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

Gaurav Gupta is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he focuses on enterprise investments. He joined the firm in 2019 after a decade-long career in product leadership at Splunk and Elastic, where he helped grow them from early-stage startups to IPOs now worth over $25B combined.13

At Lightspeed, Gupta serves on the boards of several portfolio companies including Grafana Labs, Panther Labs, and Hasura.3 He is passionate about helping founders navigate challenges around product-market fit, hiring great people, and scaling their companies.4

Prior to Lightspeed, Gupta held product roles at Splunk and Elastic where he successfully shipped and marketed a wide range of software products across domains like log analytics, security, machine learning and search.15 He also has angel investing experience, having advised and invested in over a dozen startups.13

Gupta has an electrical engineering degree from Princeton and an MBA from Harvard Business School.3 He is the son of Indian immigrant doctors and learned early on the importance of compassion, empathy and putting oneself in others' shoes.4

Some of Gupta's notable investments at Lightspeed include Stability AI, Grafana Labs, Panther, Hasura, and Ponder.23 He typically invests between $3-20M, with a sweet spot of $10M.2