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.

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

Runway
Chainguard
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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
Luma AI
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Luma AI
dbt Labs
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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 Labs
Modal
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Modal gives engineers serverless AI inference, large-scale batch processing, sandboxed code execution, and much more.

Modal
Hightouch
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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
Scribe
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One of the many great privileges of building Scribe has been getting to do it with Amplify. Outside my team, Mike is my first call when working through a difficult problem and my go-to whether it's advice, an intro, or even tough love.

Jennifer Smith

Co-founder, CEO

Scribe

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.

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