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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

    2024

  • 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

    2022

  • 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

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