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Amplify invests in technical founders building the next generation of applications, models, tools, and infrastructure. For almost 15 years we’ve been the first investor and partner for the world’s best engineers, researchers, and scientists.
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Amplify has been investing in and supporting technical founders since 2012. We’ve been early backers of multiple generations of your favorite technical and AI products, from Datadog and Fastly to Runway, Modal, Luma, Temporal, and Chainguard. We are and have always been all about technical founders.
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Amplify founders are the leading engineers, researchers, and scientists in the world.
Technical profiles
In depth technical writing on the engineering and research work at our portfolio companies.

Why TigerBeetle is the most interesting database in the world
This read goes behind the scenes of how TigerBeetle came to be, the incredibly novel software they've built, and all of the wacky, wonderful things that make them so special.

How Modal built a data cloud from the ground up
Behind the scenes of how Modal built and scaled a data cloud from scratch, from a custom container runtime to their own filesystems.

How Hightouch built their long-running agent harness
A story of real context engineering: how Hightouch's engineers built a long running agent that smoothly handles sparse and open ended marketing tasks.

A Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) primer
A primer on Deterministic Simulation Testing, the testing framework that's taking the systems world by storm, plus how Antithesis is bringing it to the masses.

CedarDB, the fastest database you've never heard of
How CedarDB reimagined every piece of the relational database like code generation, a SOTA query optimizer, and design for modern hardware.
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