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Lenny Pruss

General Partner, Amplify PartnersAmplify PartnersPalo Alto, CA

Current Firm

Amplify Partners

Investments

7+ companies

Focus

AI, DevTools

About Lenny Pruss

Sunil Dhaliwal founded Amplify Partners in 2012 as one of the earliest solo-GP, deeply technical, sector-focused VC firms, designing it as a durable platform rather than a one-off vehicle, and has spent over 25 years backing category-defining infrastructure companies like Splunk, Datadog, and Fastly across multiple market cycles. He systematically backs domain experts building in hard computer-science areas by evaluating founders through their intimate experience with technical problems, and unusually focuses on AI-powered robotics that reshape the physical economy through companies like Covariant in logistics and Iron Ox in agriculture.

Focus Areas

AIDevToolsCybersecurityEnterprise

Investment Stage

Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+

Notable Investments

Barr Yaron
Sarah Catanzaro
Lenny Pruss
Natalie Vais
Mike Dauber
Anyscale
dbt Labs