Jonah Cader

Jonah Cader is a seasoned investment professional currently serving as a Partner at Lightspeed since September 2025. Prior to this role, Cader held positions at Valor Equity Partners, including Principal and Vice President in Growth Fund Investing, from June 2022 to August 2025. Cader's experience also includes serving as a Special Projects Researcher at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, where strategic proposals were developed to foster corporate partnerships exceeding $1 million. Additional roles include Business Strategy Intern at X, The Moonshot Factory, and Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, focusing on growth strategy in technology sectors. Cader's earlier academic research included a role as a Research Assistant at Brown University, where work centered on visual perception and computational models. Jonah Cader holds an MBA and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Computational Neuroscience from Brown University.