Amplify Partners

What they do

Founded in 2012 by former Battery Ventures General Partner Sunil Dhaliwal, Amplify Partners has established itself as the premier "first institutional investor" for deeply technical founders. The firm is uniquely positioned to support engineers, researchers, and scientists transitioning into entrepreneurship, providing specialized operational support through its dedicated internal "Build Team." Amplify is highly regarded in the Silicon Valley ecosystem for its deep domain expertise in complex technical markets and its willingness to back highly technical, open-source, and research-heavy projects at the pre-product stage.

What they look for

Amplify’s core thesis is to be "the first investor for technical founders." They invest exclusively in technical founders-engineers, researchers, and scientists-building the next generation of applications, models, tools, and infrastructure for the enterprise. They explicitly look for "craftsmen" building tools for other craftsmen. They want founders who have experienced a complex technical problem viscerally firsthand and are compelled to solve it. They favor teams with deep academic, research, or hyperscale engineering backgrounds (e.g., ex-Google Brain, DeepMind, Meta FAIR, Uber infrastructure).

Stage

Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, Series B+

Sectors

AI, SaaS, Cybersecurity, Deeptech, Healthcare

Based

Menlo Park, US