Amplify Partners

Amplify Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, that backs technical founders solving enterprise-grade challenges. It makes seed and Series A investments in U.S.-based technology companies, with a focus on information technology, machine learning and artificial intelligence, data and analytics, cybersecurity, and biotechnology. The firm targets infrastructure 2.0 opportunities and supports portfolio companies through multiple rounds of funding as they scale, with initial investments typically in the range of $50,000 to $1.5 million. It avoids investments in consumer internet and cleantech sectors and emphasizes backing founders developing long-term, enterprise-ready solutions.

Steve Agelopoulos

CFO

Tim Babcock

Venture Partner

David Beyer

Partner

Sarah Catanzaro

Principal

Mike Dauber

General Partner

Sunil Dhaliwal

Founder and General Partner

Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz

Venture Partner

Grace Ge

Partner

Natasha Katoni

Partner

Lenny Pruss

General Partner

Renee Shah

Partner

Ameet Talwalkar

Venture Partner

Natalie Vais

Principal

Rohan Virani

Associate

Barr Yaron

Principal

Past deals in Developer Tools

Temporal Technologies

Series C in 2025
Temporal Technologies develops an open-source microservices orchestration platform that enables developers to build and operate resilient, scalable distributed applications. The platform provides workflow orchestration for tasks of any size, with built-in support for exponential activity retries and native saga pattern coordination to ensure reliable execution across microservice architectures. It also offers development, debugging, testing, resource provisioning, and monitoring tools, along with cloud services to run Temporal workloads and manage data pipelines. The company focuses on helping teams coordinate complex distributed workflows and ensure fault tolerance. Temporal Technologies was founded in 2019 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

tldraw

Seed Round in 2023
Founded in 2021, tldraw is a software company specializing in collaborative canvas solutions. Its flagship product, tldraw.com, offers an infinite canvas for whiteboarding and diagramming without requiring user login. The company also develops AI-integrated apps like Make Real and Teach.

Unblocked

Seed Round in 2023
Trained on the systems developers use in their day-to-day workflow, Unblocked provides developers helpful answers to their questions about the codebase. Unblocked eliminates the time developers waste as they deal with interruptions, search for documents, and mine for answers.

Cubist

Seed Round in 2023
Cubist offers a web3 key management platform and modular toolkit that enables developers to safely design, test, and deploy multi-chain and cross-chain decentralized applications in automated pipelines. By handling keys and sequencing, the solution supports secure cross-chain deployments from a single program.

Temporal Technologies

Series B in 2023
Temporal Technologies develops an open-source microservices orchestration platform that enables developers to build and operate resilient, scalable distributed applications. The platform provides workflow orchestration for tasks of any size, with built-in support for exponential activity retries and native saga pattern coordination to ensure reliable execution across microservice architectures. It also offers development, debugging, testing, resource provisioning, and monitoring tools, along with cloud services to run Temporal workloads and manage data pipelines. The company focuses on helping teams coordinate complex distributed workflows and ensure fault tolerance. Temporal Technologies was founded in 2019 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

Fermyon Technologies

Series A in 2022
Founded in 2021, Fermyon Technologies is a software company specializing in cloud computing. It offers Spin, a developer tool for deploying and managing WebAssembly applications on Fermyon Cloud.

Diagrid

Series A in 2022
Diagrid is a company that enhances developer productivity by providing tools and APIs for building and operating cloud-native applications. Founded in 2021 by Mark Fussell and Yaron Schneider, Diagrid focuses on simplifying the complexities associated with creating business applications that operate on public clouds. Its flagship offering, the Conductor service, enables organizations to efficiently manage Dapr applications in production on Kubernetes. This service is part of Diagrid Cloud, a portfolio of API-based developer services aimed at improving the reliability of distributed systems while reducing infrastructure costs. Through a microservices-based architecture, Diagrid's platform integrates seamlessly with various technologies, helping developers navigate and optimize their application development processes.

Fermyon Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2021, Fermyon Technologies is a software company specializing in cloud computing. It offers Spin, a developer tool for deploying and managing WebAssembly applications on Fermyon Cloud.

Prisma

Series B in 2022
Founded in 2016, Prisma develops open-source database tools to help app developers build scalable applications faster. Its flagship product, the Prisma Data Platform, aims to make advanced data infrastructure accessible to all application developers.

ReadySet Technology

Series A in 2022
ReadySet is a distributed SQL caching layer that precomputes the results of parameterized SQL queries and incrementally updates these results as the underlying data changes. It is wire-compatible with MySQL and Postgres, plugs directly into existing databases and applications without any code changes, and elastically scales read throughput to meet fluctuating demands. ReadySet offers the low latencies of a custom caching system and the high query throughputs of read replicas with the straightforward developer experience of using a single relational database.

Temporal Technologies

Series B in 2022
Temporal Technologies develops an open-source microservices orchestration platform that enables developers to build and operate resilient, scalable distributed applications. The platform provides workflow orchestration for tasks of any size, with built-in support for exponential activity retries and native saga pattern coordination to ensure reliable execution across microservice architectures. It also offers development, debugging, testing, resource provisioning, and monitoring tools, along with cloud services to run Temporal workloads and manage data pipelines. The company focuses on helping teams coordinate complex distributed workflows and ensure fault tolerance. Temporal Technologies was founded in 2019 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

Diagrid

Seed Round in 2022
Diagrid is a company that enhances developer productivity by providing tools and APIs for building and operating cloud-native applications. Founded in 2021 by Mark Fussell and Yaron Schneider, Diagrid focuses on simplifying the complexities associated with creating business applications that operate on public clouds. Its flagship offering, the Conductor service, enables organizations to efficiently manage Dapr applications in production on Kubernetes. This service is part of Diagrid Cloud, a portfolio of API-based developer services aimed at improving the reliability of distributed systems while reducing infrastructure costs. Through a microservices-based architecture, Diagrid's platform integrates seamlessly with various technologies, helping developers navigate and optimize their application development processes.

Modal Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Modal Labs develops machine learning software that enables users to run code in the cloud. Its platform allows for the execution of machine learning models, parallel compute jobs, task queues, web apps, and more. It automates the launch of custom containers and runs scripts faster than on local machines, allowing data science teams to focus on their models without managing infrastructure.

Suborbital

Seed Round in 2021
Suborbital specializes in developing a serverless plugin system tailored for Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. This platform allows developers to extend and customize SaaS applications using plugins written in various programming languages, providing a secure and isolated environment for executing user-submitted code. By leveraging cloud-native WebAssembly capabilities through Atmo, Suborbital enables customers to enhance their SaaS applications with new features and functionalities without sacrificing security or performance.

dbt Labs

Series C in 2021
Founded in 2016, dbt Labs develops an open-source analytics engineering tool that empowers data analysts with SQL knowledge to build and share organizational knowledge through data modeling. Its platform facilitates collaborative deployment of analytics code, adhering to software engineering practices.

ReadySet Technology

Seed Round in 2021
ReadySet is a distributed SQL caching layer that precomputes the results of parameterized SQL queries and incrementally updates these results as the underlying data changes. It is wire-compatible with MySQL and Postgres, plugs directly into existing databases and applications without any code changes, and elastically scales read throughput to meet fluctuating demands. ReadySet offers the low latencies of a custom caching system and the high query throughputs of read replicas with the straightforward developer experience of using a single relational database.

Ursa Computing

Seed Round in 2020
Ursa Computing is a developer of data-science tools focused on enhancing productivity and performance in the field of data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The company creates enterprise products and services designed to empower data teams by advancing the state of the art in high-performance, cross-language software solutions. Ursa Computing offers open-source developer tools that facilitate essential tasks in the data science lifecycle, including data access, preparation, cleaning, analytics, and feature engineering. By improving the capabilities of open-source software, Ursa Computing aims to support data scientists in their work and streamline the processes involved in data-driven decision-making.

Serenade

Seed Round in 2020
Serenade Labs, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that develops a speech-to-code engine platform aimed at enhancing coding productivity through voice commands. Their cloud-based platform, Serenade Pro, utilizes artificial intelligence to convert spoken language into programming code, allowing developers to write code by speaking in plain English. This innovative application simplifies the coding process by enabling users to express complex ideas without needing to recall intricate syntactic details of various programming languages. In addition to its core product, Serenade Labs offers integration services, application programming interfaces (APIs), and workflow management solutions that further automate voice command processes for programmers. Founded in 2018, the company is focused on making coding more accessible and efficient through its advanced voice coding technology.

dbt Labs

Series B in 2020
Founded in 2016, dbt Labs develops an open-source analytics engineering tool that empowers data analysts with SQL knowledge to build and share organizational knowledge through data modeling. Its platform facilitates collaborative deployment of analytics code, adhering to software engineering practices.

Temporal Technologies

Series A in 2020
Temporal Technologies develops an open-source microservices orchestration platform that enables developers to build and operate resilient, scalable distributed applications. The platform provides workflow orchestration for tasks of any size, with built-in support for exponential activity retries and native saga pattern coordination to ensure reliable execution across microservice architectures. It also offers development, debugging, testing, resource provisioning, and monitoring tools, along with cloud services to run Temporal workloads and manage data pipelines. The company focuses on helping teams coordinate complex distributed workflows and ensure fault tolerance. Temporal Technologies was founded in 2019 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

Buf Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Buf Technologies develops tools to simplify the lifecycle of Protocol Buffers APIs. Its product suite includes a linter that enforces API design best practices, a breaking-change detector that checks compatibility at the source or wire level, and a configurable file builder that generates images. The company helps teams create, lint, and distribute consistent APIs, protect against incompatible schema changes during evolution, and manage protocols across an organization so development remains focused on core work. Based in Buffalo, New York, Buf supports teams in standardizing API design and ensuring cross-team compatibility throughout the API lifecycle.

Prisma

Series A in 2020
Founded in 2016, Prisma develops open-source database tools to help app developers build scalable applications faster. Its flagship product, the Prisma Data Platform, aims to make advanced data infrastructure accessible to all application developers.

Buf Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Buf Technologies develops tools to simplify the lifecycle of Protocol Buffers APIs. Its product suite includes a linter that enforces API design best practices, a breaking-change detector that checks compatibility at the source or wire level, and a configurable file builder that generates images. The company helps teams create, lint, and distribute consistent APIs, protect against incompatible schema changes during evolution, and manage protocols across an organization so development remains focused on core work. Based in Buffalo, New York, Buf supports teams in standardizing API design and ensuring cross-team compatibility throughout the API lifecycle.

dbt Labs

Series A in 2020
Founded in 2016, dbt Labs develops an open-source analytics engineering tool that empowers data analysts with SQL knowledge to build and share organizational knowledge through data modeling. Its platform facilitates collaborative deployment of analytics code, adhering to software engineering practices.

Temporal Technologies

Seed Round in 2019
Temporal Technologies develops an open-source microservices orchestration platform that enables developers to build and operate resilient, scalable distributed applications. The platform provides workflow orchestration for tasks of any size, with built-in support for exponential activity retries and native saga pattern coordination to ensure reliable execution across microservice architectures. It also offers development, debugging, testing, resource provisioning, and monitoring tools, along with cloud services to run Temporal workloads and manage data pipelines. The company focuses on helping teams coordinate complex distributed workflows and ensure fault tolerance. Temporal Technologies was founded in 2019 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

Dyndrite Corporation

Series A in 2019
Founded in 2016, Dyndrite develops advanced manufacturing software. It offers a computational geometry engine and additive toolkit for enhanced performance and productivity in design, engineering, and manufacturing sectors. The company's core product is the Dyndrite accelerated geometry kernel, which serves as a foundation for developing application and print drivers for 3D printers.

Strangeworks

Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Strangeworks develops software for quantum computing. It provides developer tools and a systems management platform, making quantum computing accessible to users and organizations.

Manifold.co

Series A in 2017
Manifold.co operates a cloud-based marketplace that simplifies the discovery, purchase, and management of developer services and tools for applications across various cloud environments. By addressing the complexities associated with micro-services and third-party infrastructure, Manifold enables clients to effectively configure and distribute their pricing plans from a central platform. The marketplace streamlines essential functions such as pricing, billing, identity management, and provisioning, thereby facilitating a more efficient application development and deployment process.

Backtrace

Series A in 2016
Backtrace is a New York-based company that specializes in a debugging platform designed to enhance software reliability and quality for game developers and software engineers. Founded in 2014, Backtrace offers a comprehensive solution that integrates purpose-built debuggers, analyzers, and fault aggregators to streamline the management of software faults. Its innovative technology captures detailed dumps of failed application states and automates the analysis of this information, allowing developers to quickly detect errors and understand their root causes. By efficiently archiving critical data, Backtrace helps prevent customer loss due to application crashes and exceptions, ultimately improving the overall user experience.

Buddybuild

Series A in 2016
Buddybuild is a mobile iteration platform designed to streamline the development process for iOS developers by integrating continuous integration, continuous delivery, and feedback solutions into a single cohesive system. The platform allows developers to set up their workflow in minutes, automatically triggering builds and tests with each code change. Testers can easily provide feedback and diagnostic details through a simple screenshot, facilitating quicker resolution of issues. By eliminating the need for disparate systems, Buddybuild enables mobile application developers to focus on creating high-quality apps while minimizing manual labor and complexity in their development processes.

Buddybuild

Seed Round in 2016
Buddybuild is a mobile iteration platform designed to streamline the development process for iOS developers by integrating continuous integration, continuous delivery, and feedback solutions into a single cohesive system. The platform allows developers to set up their workflow in minutes, automatically triggering builds and tests with each code change. Testers can easily provide feedback and diagnostic details through a simple screenshot, facilitating quicker resolution of issues. By eliminating the need for disparate systems, Buddybuild enables mobile application developers to focus on creating high-quality apps while minimizing manual labor and complexity in their development processes.

Unblocked

Trained on the systems developers use in their day-to-day workflow, Unblocked provides developers helpful answers to their questions about the codebase. Unblocked eliminates the time developers waste as they deal with interruptions, search for documents, and mine for answers.
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