The first investor for technical founders.

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.

Portfolio
Portfolio Spotlight
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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 and CEO
Temporal
Portfolio Spotlight
2

Runway builds foundational AI research models and creative tools that power the world’s top film studios, production companies, agencies and brands.

Runway
Portfolio Spotlight
3

Modal gives engineers serverless AI inference, large-scale batch processing, sandboxed code execution, and much more.

Modal
Portfolio Spotlight
4

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
Datadog
Portfolio Spotlight
5

Chainguard is the safe source for open source. They build a secure, trusted software supply chain that empowers teams to build the future instead of patching the past.

Chainguard
Portfolio Spotlight
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Creators of the wildly popular open source dbt package, dbt Labs gives data teams the ability to transform, organize, and test their data within the data warehouse, all while following software engineering best practices.

dbt
Portfolio Spotlight
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Hightouch is a data and AI platform for marketing and personalization. Find insights, run campaigns, and build AI agents with all your data.

Hightouch
Our story

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.

About Amplify
All about people

Amplify founders are the leading engineers, researchers, and scientists in the world.

Meet our founders
Temporal: Max and Samar
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Hightouch: Kashish, Tejas, and Josh
Covariant founders
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