Nkechi Iregbulem

Investing in frontier

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 39 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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2026
TimelyAI is building a Marketing Saas for Time-based Businesses. “The idea is to solve the most burning need of our customers- Growing their clientele at an affordable price and being able to build lasting relationships with them for repeat business and referrals.” "Coming soon with something extremely crazy!"
Pre-Seed Investor
2026
Odin Dynamics is pioneering the future of autonomous undersea warfare. We are developing advanced unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) designed for high endurance, long-range, high-payload, and advanced targeting capabilities, redefining strategic deterrence and naval superiority. Our team brings deep expertise in maritime systems, high-performance vehicles, advanced powertrain, energy storage, autonomous systems, and defense innovation, leveraging cutting-edge engineering to build high-performance platforms that operate where human-piloted systems cannot. Backed by rigorous R&D and a commitment to national security, Odin Dynamics is actively engaging with defense partners, investors, and government agencies to accelerate the deployment of next-generation undersea combat systems. We are hiring elite engineers and seeking strategic collaborations. If youre ready to shape the future of autonomous naval warfare, join us. 🌊 Stealth. Endurance. Maritime Superiority.
Seed Investor
2025
We’re leveraging AI to solve one of the most consequential challenges in the pursuit of technical progress: the distribution of scientific innovations to the real world. We’re well-funded with top investors and are building a world class team. For innovations to have broad impact, they must scale beyond the lab. For too long, the transfer of discoveries from lab bench to real-world application has relied on informal handoffs, tacit know-how, and opaque processes and is littered with failed attempts and learnings buried in lab notebooks. The industry has quietly accepted this agonizingly slow process and inability to broadly reproduce and distribute new discoveries. We’re determined to support a new paradigm that ensures new scientific innovations can be more robust, interpretable, and transferable. We are building processes and cutting-edge AI tools that aim to illuminate and streamline these critical transfers of knowledge. We learn as much, if not much more, from failures as successes, transforming experimental science into robust, scalable solutions. We aren’t building AI to replace human ingenuity, but rather AI that can be a better partner in understanding and translating that ingenuity to new domains. We seek to build tools that help scientists spend less time documenting and debugging and more time doing the exploration they love. To be clear: we believe this will become critical infrastructure. Without solving for scale and knowledge distribution, the discoveries that will be enabled by great scientists at the bench and generative AI designs will fail to reach their end customer: us. If this resonates with you, we invite you to apply or partner with us. Our team moves fast, thinks deeply, and believes that rigorous, creative collaboration can solve the most meaningful problems in science.
Pre-Seed Investor
2025
We believe that the future of warfare is dictated by production capacity, and that our current system of manufacturing critical defensive munitions cannot meet the demand. Modern conflict has highlighted the need for cost-effective systems to complement our most exquisite ones — in the thousands per year. Furientis is building this critical mass of next generation systems and is rapidly flight testing demonstrators today.
Investor (Angel)
2024
Stealth AI Startup is a private community for founders, researchers, and engineers building next-generation AI companies before public launch. Founders tag themselves here to: 🔹 Gain credibility while working in stealth 🔹 Connect discreetly with other AI founders 🔹 Receive inbound interest from early-stage VCs 🔹 Join curated founder-only circles & discussions 🔹 Access hiring pipelines for early team building If youre building an AI startup in stealth, add your profile to the community and tag yourself to this page. Your stealth journey deserves visibility — without revealing your idea. Join the world’s largest AI stealth founder network.
Seed Investor
2024
Cognie is the worlds first AI native marketing platform focused on e-commerce
Seed Investor
2024
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
Seed Investor
2024
Enterprise AI product & research company, building long-horizon reasoning models and agents. Our first product, Agentic Accounting, executes Financial Audit, Billing Audit, and Revenue Leakage Detection.
Seed Investor + Angel
2024
Third Dimension provides immersive quality, rendering engine ready content that is ready to use by professionals across multiple industries. Third Dimension’s target customers range from The U.S. Military to video game developers to autonomous vehicle companies.
Investor (Angel)
2023
Rollup is a mission-driven software company with the aim to help accelerate the development and optimization of complex hardware and systems.
Seed Investor
2023
AI to automate microchip design
Investor (Angel)
2023
One day, we’ll look at the digital interfaces we use today the same way we now look at floppy disks and dial-up internet. Coframe is pioneering this next generation of user interfaces that can adapt, evolve, and improve themselves: living interfaces. Coframe is solving fundamental problems in AI and product, training multimodal models that understand users and business goals to enable user interfaces to continuously and autonomously improve themselves. Were hiring! If you get excited about shipping breakthroughs years ahead of schedule, please apply at https://coframe.com/careers.
Investor (Angel)
2023
Neros is a defense technology company that builds asymmetric systems to ensure the West’s strategic edge.
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Experience · 43 entries
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2026
Investing
2026
TimelyAI is building a Marketing Saas for Time-based Businesses. “The idea is to solve the most burning need of our customers- Growing their clientele at an affordable price and being able to build lasting relationships with them for repeat business and referrals.” "Coming soon with something extremely crazy!"
Pre-Seed Investor
2026
Odin Dynamics is pioneering the future of autonomous undersea warfare. We are developing advanced unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) designed for high endurance, long-range, high-payload, and advanced targeting capabilities, redefining strategic deterrence and naval superiority. Our team brings deep expertise in maritime systems, high-performance vehicles, advanced powertrain, energy storage, autonomous systems, and defense innovation, leveraging cutting-edge engineering to build high-performance platforms that operate where human-piloted systems cannot. Backed by rigorous R&D and a commitment to national security, Odin Dynamics is actively engaging with defense partners, investors, and government agencies to accelerate the deployment of next-generation undersea combat systems. We are hiring elite engineers and seeking strategic collaborations. If youre ready to shape the future of autonomous naval warfare, join us. 🌊 Stealth. Endurance. Maritime Superiority.
2025
To be announced soon
Investor
Aug 2025
Founding Principal
Aug 2025
Hico invests in early stage startups that are solving big problems and tackling large markets using artificial intelligence and/or blockchain technology. We provide founders access to resources from ideation to exit by leveraging ecosystems integrated into the value chain of entrepreneurship.
Seed Investor
2025
We’re leveraging AI to solve one of the most consequential challenges in the pursuit of technical progress: the distribution of scientific innovations to the real world. We’re well-funded with top investors and are building a world class team. For innovations to have broad impact, they must scale beyond the lab. For too long, the transfer of discoveries from lab bench to real-world application has relied on informal handoffs, tacit know-how, and opaque processes and is littered with failed attempts and learnings buried in lab notebooks. The industry has quietly accepted this agonizingly slow process and inability to broadly reproduce and distribute new discoveries. We’re determined to support a new paradigm that ensures new scientific innovations can be more robust, interpretable, and transferable. We are building processes and cutting-edge AI tools that aim to illuminate and streamline these critical transfers of knowledge. We learn as much, if not much more, from failures as successes, transforming experimental science into robust, scalable solutions. We aren’t building AI to replace human ingenuity, but rather AI that can be a better partner in understanding and translating that ingenuity to new domains. We seek to build tools that help scientists spend less time documenting and debugging and more time doing the exploration they love. To be clear: we believe this will become critical infrastructure. Without solving for scale and knowledge distribution, the discoveries that will be enabled by great scientists at the bench and generative AI designs will fail to reach their end customer: us. If this resonates with you, we invite you to apply or partner with us. Our team moves fast, thinks deeply, and believes that rigorous, creative collaboration can solve the most meaningful problems in science.
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