Lenny Pruss is a Principal at Redpoint Ventures and focuses on investments in cloud infrastructure, developer tools, SaaS and security. Prior to Redpoint, Lenny was a Principal at RRE Ventures, a leading early-stage venture fund in New York, where he worked on the firm's investments in Datadog, Flynn, Kryptnostic, WhipTail (acq. by Cisco) and several other companies. Lenny began his career as an Analyst with RRE, and prior to returning there after his MBA he worked as a Product Manager at Dataminr and an Analyst covering software, systems and semiconductor companies at JAT Capital, a multi-billion-dollar technology, media and telecom-focused ('TMT') hedge fund. Lenny holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from UC Berkeley where he graduated from with honors.
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