Amplify Partners
Venture capitalActively deployingMenlo Park · Pre-Seed–Series A · 70 people tracked
Also known as AMPLIFY MANAGEMENT LLC
Investment thesis
Amplify positions itself as the first investor and partner for technical founders building the next generation of applications, models, tools, and infrastructure. For nearly 15 years the firm has focused on backing the world's leading engineers, researchers, and scientists at the earliest stages, with a portfolio spanning multiple generations of technical and AI products. It emphasizes deep technical alignment with founders and supports its companies with in-depth engineering and research content.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 70 people
from the firm's website & public directories
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What they invest in
from 106 of 188 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×68Developer Tools ×40Enterprise Software ×39Data & Infrastructure ×35Cloud Computing ×30SaaS ×29Biotech ×14Cybersecurity ×12
HQs:United States×67United Kingdom×5India×1
Investments · 188 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathSan Francisco, US
Board seatSunil Dhaliwal· per SEC Form D · $556.3M raise · filed Oct 2020
Datadog is a cloud-based monitoring and security platform that provides observability, analytics, and protection for infrastructure, applications, and data across enterprises.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureNew York, US
Olivier Pomel(Founder & CEO)inAlexis Le-Quoc(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Amit Agarwal(Executive Officer)Murat Bicer(Director)Dev Ittycheria(Director)Shardul Shah(Director)
Content delivery and edge cloud platform; NYSE:FSLY.
San Francisco, US
BiotechSalt Lake City, US
Blake C. Borgeson(Executive Officer, Director)Dean Y. Yi(Executive Officer, Director)Christopher C. Gibson(Executive Officer, Director)
Antithesis provides deterministic simulation testing software that automatically finds and reproduces bugs in mission-critical software systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Will Wilson(CEO & Co-Founder)inDave Scherer(Co-Founder)
Datafold builds AI-powered agents and tools that automate complex data engineering tasks including migrations, optimization, CI/CD, and data quality validation.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US
Gleb Mezhanskiy(Founder)inAlex Morozov(Founder)inAaron Jacobson(Director)Peter Sonsini(Director)
Foxglove builds observability tooling and open-source software for robotics engineers to accelerate development and deployment.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsRoboticsSan Francisco, US
Adrian Macneil(CEO and Co-Founder)Roman Shtylman(CTO and Co-Founder)Alexandra Sukin(Director)
BoardSeth Winterroth(Director)
Infinitopes develops immunotherapy treatments for cancer, focusing on immune-oncology and antigen discovery solutions aimed at improving patient outcomes and affordability in cancer care.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechHealthtechMedical DevicesOxford, GB
Jonathan Kwok(Co-Founder, President & Chief Medical Officer)Lian Ni Lee(VP Preclinical & Co-Founder)
Modal provides a serverless cloud platform designed for data, AI, and machine learning applications, enabling developers to scale from zero to thousands of CPUs or GPUs with simple code.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsNew York, US
Erik BernhardssonAkshat Bubna
New York, US
Samy Al Bahra(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Gabriel Parmer(Executive Officer, Director)Sunil Dhaliwal(Director)
Board seatSunil Dhaliwal· per SEC Form D · $6M raise · filed Apr 2026
Brooklyn, US
Benjamin Brittain(Executive Officer, Director)David Barsky(Director)Lenny Pruss(Director)
Board seatLenny Pruss· per SEC Form D · $5M raise · filed Jul 2025
Emeryville, US
Michael Volpi(Director)Sunil Dhaliwal(Director)Pieter Abbeel(Director)Xi Chen(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Board seatSunil Dhaliwal· per SEC Form D · $9.5M raise · filed Nov 2021
Palo Alto, US
Board seatHani Goodarzi· per SEC Form D · $71.5M raise · filed Oct 2022
Longmont, US
Board seatSunil Dhaliwal· per SEC Form D · $22M raise · filed Oct 2022
New York, US
Lawrence Manning(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatSarah Catanzaro· per SEC Form D · $18M raise · filed Jun 2024
Seattle, US
Mike Dauber(Director)Tim Porter(Director)Kristina Bergman(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatMike Dauber· per SEC Form D · $3M raise · filed Oct 2019
San Francisco, US
Natalie Vais(Director)Samuel Bhagwat(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Abhi Aiyer(Director)Shane Thomas(Director)
Board seatNatalie Vais· per SEC Form D · $36.2M raise · filed May 2026
New York, US
Akshat Bubna(Executive Officer)Erik Bernhardsson(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardPatrick Chase(Director)
Board seatSarah Catanzaro· per SEC Form D · $94.4M raise · filed Oct 2025
Claymont, US
Frederic Branczyk(Executive Officer, Director)Thorbald Hansen(Executive Officer)
Board seatNatalie Vais· per SEC Form D · $6.8M raise · filed Jan 2024
Bellevue, US
Board seatMike Dauber· per SEC Form D · $13M raise · filed Jun 2024
New York, US
Board seatSunil Dhaliwal· per SEC Form D · $50M raise · filed Dec 2022
Issaquah, US
Bilal Aijazi(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Samir Diwan(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Board seatMike Dauber· per SEC Form D · $3.5M raise · filed Sep 2021
San Francisco, US
Board seatSunil Dhaliwal· per SEC Form D · $6.2M raise · filed Apr 2025
New York, US
Ganesha Thirumurthi(Executive Officer, Director)Mike Dauber(Director)David Patterson-Cole(Director)
Board seatMike Dauber· per SEC Form D · $29.7M raise · filed Oct 2025
TigerBeetle is a specialized transactions database designed for online transaction processing (OLTP) with focus on safety and performance.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureFintechSan Francisco, US
Joran Dirk Greef(Founder & CEO)David Gardiner(Director, Promoter)
Board seatNatalie Vais· per SEC Form D
Vienna, US
David Scherer(Executive Officer, Director)Nicholas Lavezzo(Executive Officer, Director)William Wilson(Executive Officer, Director)Doug Patti(Director)
Board seatLenny Pruss· per SEC Form D · $106.5M raise · filed Dec 2025
Achira builds molecular world models that blend geometric deep learning, physics, and quantum chemistry to advance drug discovery and materials design.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech
John Chodera(President / CEO)Theofanis Karaletsos
BoardZavain Dar(Board)
ActionIQ is a composable customer data platform that has been acquired by Uniphore to support AI-driven customer experience orchestration across enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechNew York, US
DOUGLAS LEONE(Director)CARL SPARKS(Director)NITAY JOFFE(Executive Officer, Director)MARTIN CASADO(Director)MEREDITH FINN(Director)ANASTASIOS ARGYROS(Executive Officer, Director)
Airtable is a San Francisco-based no-code platform that lets teams build apps and workflows on a flexible database.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Howie Liu(Co-founder and CEO)Andrew Ofstad(Co-founder)Emmett Nicholas(Co-founder)
Allium provides a data infrastructure platform that translates blockchain data from 150+ chains and 10,000 protocols into standardized formats for enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechNew York, US
Ethan Chan(CEO)inCheng Han Lee(CTO)inYi Sheng Chan(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Tomasz Tunguz(Director)David Beyer(Director)
Anchorage Digital is a global cryptocurrency platform providing institutions with custody, staking, trading, governance, and settlement services, along with security infrastructure.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechNew York, US
Diogo Mónica(Co-founder)Nathan McCauley(Co-founder)
Anyscale provides a platform for building and deploying machine learning and AI applications at scale, enabling developers to run applications from laptops to data centers without managing underlying infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Robert Nishihara(Executive Officer, Director)Ben Horowitz(Director)Philipp Moritz(Executive Officer, Director)Ion Stoica(Executive Officer, Director)
Archera provides a management platform and insurance/financing products that help organizations purchase public cloud resources with reduced financial risk and optimized costs through automated cost transparency and discount optimization.
Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
AuthZed provides authorization infrastructure that automatically evaluates access permissions based on team and organizational hierarchies, eliminating the need for manual permission syncing and background jobs.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US
Jake Moshenko(Founder)inJimmy Zelinskie(Founder)inJoseph Schorr(Founder)in
Sauce Labs operates a cloud-based continuous testing platform for web and mobile applications, offering automated testing across desktop operating systems, browsers, mobile emulators, simulators, and devices for development teams.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Beamery provides an AI platform for workforce transformation that helps enterprises hire, redeploy, and reskill talent by connecting skills and task intelligence to real-time workforce data.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSUnited States, US
Abakar Saidov(Co-founder)Sultan Saidov(Co-founder)Michael Paterson(Co-founder)
Blockchain.com is a global infrastructure platform for digital assets that provides cryptocurrency trading, DeFi wallet services, and blockchain exploration tools to millions of users worldwide.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
CCG.ai develops software that uses clinical and genomic data to help oncologists select appropriate cancer treatments for individual patients, with a focus on identifying predictive biomarkers linked to treatment response.
HealthtechMedical DevicesCambridge, GB
John Cassidy(Founder/CEO)inNirmesh Patel(Founder/Chief Scientific Officer)inEvaline Tsai(Founder/CPO)in
Cancer Research UK funds research across discovery, detection, prevention and treatment of cancer to improve patient outcomes and extend survival.
BiotechDigital HealthHealthtechImpact & Social Good
A high-performance relational database reimagined for modern hardware.
Chai Discovery builds a computer-aided design suite using artificial intelligence to design new molecules and drugs.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Amplify Partners invest at?
- Amplify Partners invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Amplify Partners's typical check size?
- Amplify Partners typically writes checks of $500K – $5M.
- What sectors does Amplify Partners focus on?
- Amplify Partners focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Crypto & Web3, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software.
- Where is Amplify Partners located?
- Amplify Partners is headquartered in Menlo Park, US.
- Does Amplify Partners lead rounds?
- Yes, Amplify Partners leads investment rounds.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamThe Day I’ll Finally Trust AI w. Mike Dauber @Amplify Partners
Deep Insights · Mike Dauber
Mike Dauber, Amplify Partners | AWS re:Invent 2015
SiliconANGLE theCUBE · Mike Dauber
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