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Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

Nnamdi Iregbulem, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

Nnamdi Iregbulem is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, a venture capital firm focused on backing disruptive founders and trends in the Enterprise and Consumer sectors. He has been with Lightspeed since July 2020, investing in early stage software startups enhancing the productivity of technical knowledge workers.1

Prior to Lightspeed, Nnamdi held several roles:

  • Product Manager at Confluent in 2019, where he analyzed the business and technical impact of removing product dependency on Apache ZooKeeper and built the business case for a hybrid cloud solution1
  • Investor and CEO Shadow at GitLab Inc. from 2018-20191
  • Technology Investor at ICONIQ Capital from 2014-2018, where he sourced investments in companies like GitLab, Epic Games (Fortnite), ezCater, and Brightwheel1

Nnamdi holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Yale University and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he took technical coursework in machine learning, natural language processing, web applications, and optimization.1

He has published independent research on trends in developer productivity and developed the Venture Activity Index to provide real-time insights on private market funding trends.2 Nnamdi is also passionate about AI security and interpretability, as evidenced by his posts on LinkedIn.345

Highlights

Feb 22 · Business Insider
Black Venture Investors Who Recently Made Partner or General Partner - Business Insider
Sep 17 · Forbes
AI Disruption: What VCs Are Betting On - Forbes

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Experience

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners since July 2020
Technology Investor at ICONIQ Capital; Investment Banking Analyst at J.P. Morgan

Education

MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business; BA in Economics from Yale University

Location

San Francisco, California, United States