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Funding Simply Shifts the Bottleneck
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Nnamdi Iregbulem
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
San Francisco, California
Overview
Nnamdi Iregbulem is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners in San Francisco, California, with a focus on investing in Hardware, Cloud Infrastructure, AI, Consumer Internet, and Enterprise sectors. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and has made significant investments in companies like Substrate and Select Star.
Highlights of Nnamdi's career include serving on the boards of companies like Patronus AI and Materialize, as well as investing in promising startups such as Astro and Polar Signals.
Work Experience
Partner
2020 - Current
Investing in early stage software startups enhancing the productivity of technical knowledge workers. Lightspeed is a venture capital firm focused on backing disruptive founders and trends in the Enterprise and Consumer sectors. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has funded more than 300 companies globally, many of which have become market leaders, including Affirm, Carta, Epic Games, GrubHub, MuleSoft, Nutanix, Stitch Fix and Snapchat.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Board Observer
2024
Exa is an AI research center that is reinventing the quest for AI.
Raised $22,000,000.00 from Mei Z., Lightspeed Venture Partners, Y Combinator and NVentures.
Board Member
2023
Patronus AI operates as an automated evaluation and security platform.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Datadog, Tristan Handy, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Michael Callahan, Factorial Capital, Jason Warner, Aparna Sinha, Nadim Hossain, Gokul Rajaram and Barr Moses.
Board Observer
2021
Redpanda Data is a software development company that offers data platform for developers.
Raised $165,500,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google Ventures and Haystack.
Board Observer
2020
Snorkel AI is an AI platform that accelerates data labeling by using machine learning for faster model training.
Raised $135,250,000.00 from QBE Ventures.
Board Member
2023
SaaS Database monitoring for all your databases wherever they reside.
Board Observer
2020
Materialize is a streaming SQL database company that simplifies the application development for developers.
Raised $100,500,000.00 from Redpoint, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins.
Seed Investor
2021
Seed Investor
2021
Polar Signals is a profiling platform designed to measure and understand performance over time.
Raised $10,774,936.00 from Monica Sarbu, Spark Capital, Nikhil Benesch, Haystack, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Guillermo Rauch, Google Ventures, Lorimer Ventures, Julius Volz and Jimmy Zelinskie.
Product Manager
2019 - 2019
Analyzed business and technical impact of removing product dependency on Apache ZooKeeper, presented findings and recommendations to executive stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales Built business case and led scoping of hybrid cloud solution, crafted go-to-market strategy, managed cross-functional working group
Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
Raised $455,900,000.00 from Axevil Capital, Employee Stock Option Fund and Junipero Capital.
Education
Investments
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