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Infrastructure 3.0: Building Blocks for the AI Revolution
Talks about Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure and Venture Capital
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Lenny Pruss
Assistant to the Traveling Secretary at Amplify Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Lenny Pruss is an accomplished professional currently serving as the Assistant to the Traveling Secretary at Amplify Partners in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a background as a General Partner at Amplify Partners and experience investing in successful companies like Antithesis and Hightouch, he has demonstrated expertise in venture capital, strategy, and entrepreneurship.
Pruss holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and has made significant investments in a variety of sectors, including Security, Developer Tools, and Cloud Infrastructure, showcasing a strong track record in identifying and supporting successful startups in the Bay Area.
Work Experience
General Partner
2017 - Current
Working with extraordinary technical founders solving foundational problems across distributed systems and infrastructure, developer tools, security, and machine intelligence.
Investor and Board Member
2024
Antithesis develops quality assurance software to facilitate autonomous software testing.
Raised $47,000,000.00 from Michael Walrath, First In Ventures, Tamarack Global, Howard Lerman and Amplify Partners.
Investor and Board Member
2023
bitdrift offers real-time mobile experience insights with its Capture product, focusing on app performance.
Investor
2021
Chainguard provides low-to-zero CVE container images that provide a secure software foundation for building and running applications.
Raised $256,000,000.00 from Amplify Partners, MANTIS Venture Capital, Spark Capital, Redpoint, Lightspeed Venture Partners, IVP and Sequoia Capital.
Investor and Board Member
2021
Hightouch is a data platform that helps sync customers' data from the data warehouse to CRM, marketing, and support tools.
Raised $92,200,000.00 from Databricks Ventures, ICONIQ Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Amplify Partners, Y Combinator, The New Normal Fund, Bain Capital Ventures, Afore Capital, Barr Moses and Alex Pall.
Investor and Board Member
2019
Temporal Technologies enables its users to build and operate resilient applications using developer-friendly primitives.
Raised $203,500,000.00 from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Madrona, Amplify Partners, Addition, Greenoaks, Addition, Index Ventures, Madrona and Amplify Partners.
Investor
2019
Dbt Labs develops an analytics engineering tool that prepares raw data in the warehouse for analysis.
Raised $414,400,000.00 from Salesforce Ventures, GIC, Amplify Partners, Tiger Global Management, Snowflake, Google Ventures, Databricks Ventures, Coatue, Sequoia Capital and ICONIQ Growth.
Investor and Board Member
2019
At Prisma, we are building the data access layer for modern applications.
Raised $56,500,000.00 from Altimeter Capital, Kleiner Perkins and Amplify Partners.
Investor
2019
Investor
2015
Cockroach Labs is a software company that develops a cloud-native SQL database for modern cloud applications.
Raised $633,100,000.00 from Index Ventures, Coatue, Bond, Altimeter Capital, FirstMark, Greenoaks, Google Ventures, K5 Global, Lone Pine Capital and JP Morgan Chase.
Education
Investments
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