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.3 4 5