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Nkechi Iregbulem

pre-seed and seed investing

San Francisco, California

Work Experience

  • Founding Principal

    2025

    Hico is a Palo Alto based venture fund backing generational companies at pre-seed and seed. We typically invest $500K to $1M.

2023

  • Pre-Seed Investor

    2023

    Aeon is building the new tactical arsenal (Backed by: Quiet Capital, Silent Ventures, 1789, MaC VC) [Seed] *Wrote the first angel check into company

  • Pre-Seed Investor

    2023

    Building next generation of unmanned defense systems. Made in 🇺🇸 (Backed by Sequoia, Vy Capital, Interlagos, Cantos, Peter Thiel) [Series A] *Wrote the first angel check into company

2023

  • Pre-Seed Investor

    2023

    Revitalizing America's Industrial Base 🇺🇸 (Backed by NVP, Daybreak Ventures) [Seed]

2023

  • Pre-Seed Investor

    2023

    AI for superhuman microchip design (Backed by Khosla Ventures, 1517 Fund, MVP Ventures) [Seed]

2025

  • Seed Investor

    2025

    Making science interpretable, robust, and transferable (Backed by TBA) [Seed]

2022

  • Seed Investor

    2022

    Enabling Bring Your Own Cloud for everyone. (Backed by M12, Redpoint, Uncork) [Series A]

2023

  • Seed Investor

    2023

    Generate best-in-class SDKs and Docs for your API (Backed by Bessemer, Twenty Two Ventures, Y Combinator) [Series A]

2023

  • Seed Investor

    2023

    AI-powered CRO (Backed by Khosla Ventures, Nat Friedman) [Seed]

  • Pre-Seed Investor

    2024

    AI frontier lab. (Backed by Susa Ventures, Valhalla Ventures) [Pre-Seed] *Wrote the first angel check into company