Lenny Pruss

General Partner at Amplify Partners · Joined 2017

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Biography

Lenny Pruss is a General Partner at Amplify Partners. He came to the United States as a young child when his family left the former Soviet Union, studied EECS at UC Berkeley, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He began his venture career in New York and was a principal at Redpoint Ventures focused on cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and developer tools before joining Amplify in 2017, where he was promoted to General Partner in 2020. His Amplify bio lists Antithesis, Anyscale, bitdrift, Chainguard, Dagster, dbt, exe.dev, Hightouch, Prisma, Sourcegraph, Temporal and TigerBeetle among his select companies.

Education

Notable Investments

HightouchdbtTemporalChainguardAnyscaleSourcegraphDagsterDatadog DDOGHashiCorp

Career Timeline

2017
Left Redpoint Ventures, where he was a principal covering cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and developer tools, to join Amplify Partners as a partner.
2020
Promoted to General Partner at Amplify Partners, which said he had sourced or led fourteen investments during his tenure.
2021
Co-authored Amplify's announcement that it led Hightouch's $12 million Series A.

Sources & References

Amplify Partners - Lenny Pruss ↗Amplify Partners - Team ↗Axios - Lenny Pruss leaves Redpoint Ventures for Amplify ↗Amplify Partners - Growth from Within: Lenny Pruss to General Partner and Sarah Catanzaro to Partner ↗Amplify Partners - Announcing Our Investment in Hightouch ↗Amplify Partners - Lenny Pruss author page ↗