Lenny Pruss

General Partner at Amplify Partners

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 11 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor and Board Member
Mar 2026
Just use a VM.
Investor and Board Member
Jul 2024
A platform for building the impossible. Autonomous testing trusted by Palantir, MongoDB, Ethereum and many others.
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Jun 2023
Currently in stealth
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Nov 2021
Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Its customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. For more information, visit: https://www.chainguard.dev/
Investor and Board Member
Feb 2021
Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP. With complete brand context, customer data, and performance history in one place, Hightouch gives every marketer the power to build and ship end-to-end campaigns themselves. Teams move faster, stay on brand, and get AI marketing that actually works.
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Nov 2019
Temporal develops and distributes the worlds leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industrys most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
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Nov 2019
Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help data practitioners create and disseminate organizational knowledge. dbt is the standard for AI-ready structured data. Powered by the dbt Fusion engine, it unlocks the performance, context, and trust that organizations need to scale analytics in the era of AI. Globally, more than 60,000 data teams use dbt, including those at Siemens, Roche and Condé Nast.
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Jun 2019
Prisma is a remote-first software development company, with team members across the globe. We simplify building data-rich applications by providing developer-focused products that help Build, Fortify and Grow apps. - Accelerate: Global db cache with scalable connection pooling https://prisma.io/accelerate - Pulse: Real-time database events with type-safe subscriptions https://prisma.io/pulse - ORM: Open-source Node.js and TypeScript ORM https://prisma.io/orm Prisma is also leading the way in the Data DX category to promote simplicity in data-driven application development. Learn more at https://datadx.io.
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Mar 2019
Sourcegraph is the leading code intelligence platform revolutionizing how developers understand, fix, and automate their code. At Sourcegraph, we use the power of AI with Cody, our AI coding assistant, to help developers better understand their code. Our technology makes it easy to navigate through large codebases, find relevant code snippets, and get historical context. Plus, our Code Search and analysis tools help you quickly fix bugs, refactor code, and improve performance - all in one easy-to-use interface. Over one million engineers use Sourcegraph to improve code security, efficiently onboard developers, promote code reuse, resolve incidents, and boost code health. Code intelligence is a critical capability that increases enterprise engineering velocity, software quality and stability, and team health. Leading companies like Databricks, Plaid, Uber, Lyft, Reddit, GE, and Dropbox, rely on Sourcegraph to build the products we all rely on. Sourcegraph is an all-remote company backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Goldcrest Capital.
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May 2015
Cockroach Labs is the creator of CockroachDB, the cloud native, distributed SQL database for the planets most demanding enterprise applications.
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2026
Investor and Board Member
Mar 2026
Just use a VM.
2024
Investor and Board Member
Jul 2024
A platform for building the impossible. Autonomous testing trusted by Palantir, MongoDB, Ethereum and many others.
2023
Investor and Board Member
Jun 2023
Currently in stealth
2021
Investor
Nov 2021
Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Its customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. For more information, visit: https://www.chainguard.dev/
Investor and Board Member
Feb 2021
Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP. With complete brand context, customer data, and performance history in one place, Hightouch gives every marketer the power to build and ship end-to-end campaigns themselves. Teams move faster, stay on brand, and get AI marketing that actually works.
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