Caryn Marooney is General Partner at Coatue. Prior to Coatue, Caryn spent over 8 years running communications at Facebook. She sat on the board of Zendesk for over 6 years and currently sits on the board of Elastic Search. Prior to Facebook, Caryn co-founded OutCast, a GTM and branding agency, where she worked with companies including Salesforce.com, Amazon, Netflix and VMware. Caryn focuses on enterprise and AI/ML investing at Coatue. Caryn is originally from New York City and holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.

Chetan Puttagunta is a General Partner at Benchmark. He currently serves on the boards of Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), Modern Treasury, Airbyte, Stytch, Duffel, Supaglue, and MindsDB. He previously led investments in and served on the boards of MuleSoft (NYSE:MULE, acquired by Salesforce), MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB), Acquia (acquired by Vista Equity), and Scout (acquired by Workday). Chetan holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

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