VC at Lightspeed, former Product exec at Splunk & Elastic
San Francisco Bay Area
Associate @ Globespan Capital Partners Early-stage technology venture capital firm with over $1b under management. One of three junior investment professionals supporting six Partners. Responsible for deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio management. From June 2004 to August 2006 (2 years 3 months) Boston, MASenior Analyst, Strategy @ Gateway Member of six person turnaround team reporting to...
Associate @ Globespan Capital Partners Early-stage technology venture capital firm with over $1b under management. One of three junior investment professionals supporting six Partners. Responsible for deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio management. From June 2004 to August 2006 (2 years 3 months) Boston, MASenior Analyst, Strategy @ Gateway Member of six person turnaround team reporting to the CEO and SVP of Strategy. From February 2003 to June 2004 (1 year 5 months) Poway, CAConsultant @ The McKenna Group The McKenna Group was founded by high-tech marketing guru Regis McKenna. I worked with technology companies ranging from startups to Fortune 10 on go-to-market, whole product, customer segmentation, and partnership strategies. My focus was on companies primarily in enterprise software and telecom. From September 2000 to December 2002 (2 years 4 months) Boston, MAAdvisor & Investor @ Exploring Involved as an advisor/investor to a number of companies including Arceo.ai (cyberinsurance), BigPanda (event correlation/AIOps), Blameless (orchestration and collaboration for SREs), Cribl (log stream processing), Exabeam (next-gen SIEM), Hypercube.ai (deep learning infrastructure), Ikigai Labs (stealth), Impira (AI for unstructured data), Brim (security search & analytics), Rockset (cloud data analytics), Timescale (OSS time series DB), Antara Health (healthcare in Africa) From 2018 to 2019 (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaVP Product @ Elastic 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 From April 2014 to May 2018 (4 years 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaVP Products @ Splunk Splunk is focused on search and analytics for machine-generated data. During my tenure, the company grew from ~100 to > 1000 employees, and went public in April 2012 (NASDAQ:SPLK). I held a number of different roles there including:-Leading product management for Splunk Enterprise's core search/indexing technology and user interface. I worked in an agile development environment across multiple teams (front and back-end)- Served as acting GM for a team of ~15 engineers, devops, QA staff, and product managers responsible for Splunk's Cloud offerings and Splunkbase (app store)Feature area responsibilities:- Proprietary universal indexing technology that allows you to index terabytes/day of data on commodity hardware - Core search engine technology and search language that implements map-reduce- Graphical reporting, data visualization and alerting features11/2011 - 9/2012: Senior Director, Product Management4/2010 - 10/2011: Director, Product Management7/2008 - 3/2010: Senior Product Manager From July 2008 to September 2013 (5 years 3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaManager, Online Sales and Operations (Summer Intern) @ Google Summer intern in the AdWords business on marketing/customer support initiatives. Spent second half of internship working with India-based sales and support teams. From June 2007 to August 2007 (3 months) Mountain View, CABoard Director @ Grafana Labs Grafana Labs’ vision is to become the first, true open and composable observability platform that combines metrics, logs, and tracing. Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners I'm a Partner on the early-stage team (primarily Seed, Series A, B) investing out of an $890M early-stage fund and a $1.8B growth fund. I'm focused on enterprise/B2B companies. Companies I'm currently involved with include:• Panther Labs (www.runpanther.io) - Led Series A, Board Director• Hasura (www.hasura.io) - Led Series B, Board Director• Grafana Labs (www.grafana.com) - Led Series A and Series B, Board Director• Impira (www.impira.com) - Board observer, was previously an advisor• Blameless (www.blameless.com) - Board observer, was previously an angel investor San Francisco Bay AreaBoard Director @ Hasura Hasura, the data access infrastructure company, helps organizations accelerate product delivery by instantly connecting databases and services to applications via GraphQL. Board Director @ Panther Labs Panther Labs is a cloud-first, open-source security platform designed as an alternative to legacy SIEMs.
Globespan Capital Partners
Associate
June 2004 to August 2006
Boston, MA
Gateway
Senior Analyst, Strategy
February 2003 to June 2004
Poway, CA
The McKenna Group
Consultant
September 2000 to December 2002
Boston, MA
Exploring
Advisor & Investor
2018 to 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
Elastic
VP Product
April 2014 to May 2018
San Francisco Bay Area
Splunk
VP Products
July 2008 to September 2013
San Francisco Bay Area
Manager, Online Sales and Operations (Summer Intern)
June 2007 to August 2007
Mountain View, CA
Grafana Labs
Board Director
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Partner
San Francisco Bay Area
Hasura
Board Director
Panther Labs
Board Director
Early-stage technology venture capital firm with over $1b under management. One of three junior investment professionals supporting six Partners. Responsible for deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio management. Early-stage technology venture capital firm with over $1b under management. One of three junior investment professionals supporting six Partners. Responsible for deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio management.
What company does Gaurav Gupta work for?
Gaurav Gupta works for Globespan Capital Partners
What is Gaurav Gupta's role at Globespan Capital Partners?
Gaurav Gupta is Associate
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Gaurav Gupta works in the Venture Capital & Private Equity industry.
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Gaurav Gupta's colleagues are Tal Morgenstern, Yoni Cheifetz, Alex Popof, Catherine Chen, Adam Smith, Xiang Pan, Srini Vudayagiri, Eric Wayman, Amanda PHR, and Ivan Alo
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