The first investor
for technical founders.

Amplify invests in technical founders building the next generation of applications, tools, and platforms for developers, data teams, ML engineers, and everything in between.

dbt empowers a new generation of analytics engineers to organize and understand their data.
Chainguard protects mission critical software from supply chain vulnerabilities.
Datadog made observability easy – and powerful – for everyone and every server.
OUR APPROACH
Amplify believes in technical founders. We’ve been working with, supporting, and building a community around them for over a decade.
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Our Companies
From dbt to Datadog, our portfolio of technical founders is a group of the leading engineers, researchers, and thinkers around.
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Amplify was such an obvious choice for us at Seed. Their track record of partnering with technical founders in the data space was unparalleled, and we came to trust them deeply as partners in building our business. 10/10 would seed again.

Barry McCardel, Co-Founder & CEO

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Amplify’s emphasis on relationship building and their deep understanding of the next-gen infrastructure world were evident from our very first fundraise. The Amplify team has been an asset and a true partner in helping us scale from a handful of employees into the business we are today.

OLIVIER POMEL, Co-Founder & CEO

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Amplify was central to the genesis of Temporal, beyond just being our first investor. Maxim and I met Lenny, Mike, and the Amplify team when we were working on Cadence at Uber, and conversations with them helped us gain the confidence to do our own thing. Without Amplify, there would be no Temporal.

SAMAR ABBAS, Co-Founder & CEO
GTM Tactics
Common mistakes technical founders make with early POCs
podcast
How to build an interview process on Technical Recruiting Playbooks
Newsletter
“Projects To Know” features the latest academic papers and OSS projects
portfolio spotlight
How Scribe’s documentation platform helps organizations show, not tell, how they do their work
portfolio Spotlight
The story of how Runway empowers artists to bring their ideas to life with a collaborative AI partner
How Temporal pioneered Durable Execution and helps backend teams build reliable, scalable workflows
HEADLINES
Our Investment in Datology
Introducing the Startup Legal Hub: A Resource for Navigating the Startup Legal Landscape
Scaling Sales: The Essential Steps to Hiring Your First Salesperson
What gets to the front page of Hacker News?
When Should Early-stage Startups Hire a Designer?
How do I hire a Developer Advocate?
Sales Metrics 101: Self Serve, Sales-Assisted, and PQL Funnels
where we invest
Developer Tools & Computing Infrastructure
Systems, tooling, and platforms that push the frontier of modern computing.
Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
Unprecedented applications of machine intelligence at any layer of the enterprise stack.
Data & Analytics
Infrastructure, platforms, and tooling shaping the modern data stack.
Cybersecurity
Technology that secures enterprise applications, endpoints, and infrastructure.
Tech-enabled Bio
Founder-led companies at the intersection of biology and engineering.
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Introducing Amplified:
GTM for technical founders.

Amplified is our publication that helps technical founders get up to speed on sales, marketing, and recruiting. Everything is highly practical and tailor-made for engineer founders.
SALES
Common mistakes with early pilots and POCs ↗
OSS
Tips for building stronger OSS communities ↗
MARKETING
What gets to the front page of HackerNews? A data study ↗