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 Open Source

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.

Chainguard

Series C in 2024
Chainguard specializes in enhancing software supply chain security. It offers hardened container images rebuilt continuously from source with built-in cryptographic signatures, SBOMs, and SLSA provenance. Additionally, Chainguard provides secure Java dependencies through its Chainguard Libraries. The company actively contributes to open-source projects, demonstrating its commitment to the community.

Chainguard

Series B in 2023
Chainguard specializes in enhancing software supply chain security. It offers hardened container images rebuilt continuously from source with built-in cryptographic signatures, SBOMs, and SLSA provenance. Additionally, Chainguard provides secure Java dependencies through its Chainguard Libraries. The company actively contributes to open-source projects, demonstrating its commitment to the community.

Dagster Labs

Series B in 2023
Dagster Labs is a developer of an open-source data orchestration platform called Dagster. This platform is designed to facilitate the development, production, and observation of data assets, enabling organizations to create productive and scalable data environments. By utilizing a Python library, Dagster allows users to build modern data applications that promote seamless collaboration in processing and producing trusted and reliable data. The platform is engineered to integrate easily with existing tools and infrastructure, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of data management for clients.

PostgresML

Seed Round in 2023
PostgresML is an open-source AI application database that embeds machine learning capabilities directly into PostgreSQL. It is a Rust-written extension that adds SQL-based ML operations, enabling developers to build and deploy machine learning models within the database and integrate them into existing workflows. The solution scales workloads through dedicated replicas or serverless GPU-accelerated cloud.

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.

Chainguard

Series A in 2022
Chainguard specializes in enhancing software supply chain security. It offers hardened container images rebuilt continuously from source with built-in cryptographic signatures, SBOMs, and SLSA provenance. Additionally, Chainguard provides secure Java dependencies through its Chainguard Libraries. The company actively contributes to open-source projects, demonstrating its commitment to the community.

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.

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.

Outerbounds

Series A in 2021
Outerbounds provides human-centric infrastructure for machine learning and data science teams, built around Metaflow, an open-source framework started at Netflix. The platform enables teams to run, orchestrate, and scale compute-intensive ML workloads in the cloud while managing large data volumes and complex applications. By combining open-source tooling with scalable orchestration, Outerbounds supports a wide range of applications—from state-of-the-art computer vision and large language models to business-oriented data science—used by hundreds of organizations across industries.

Chainguard

Seed Round in 2021
Chainguard specializes in enhancing software supply chain security. It offers hardened container images rebuilt continuously from source with built-in cryptographic signatures, SBOMs, and SLSA provenance. Additionally, Chainguard provides secure Java dependencies through its Chainguard Libraries. The company actively contributes to open-source projects, demonstrating its commitment to the community.

Dagster Labs

Series A in 2021
Dagster Labs is a developer of an open-source data orchestration platform called Dagster. This platform is designed to facilitate the development, production, and observation of data assets, enabling organizations to create productive and scalable data environments. By utilizing a Python library, Dagster allows users to build modern data applications that promote seamless collaboration in processing and producing trusted and reliable data. The platform is engineered to integrate easily with existing tools and infrastructure, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of data management for clients.

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.

Outerbounds

Seed Round in 2021
Outerbounds provides human-centric infrastructure for machine learning and data science teams, built around Metaflow, an open-source framework started at Netflix. The platform enables teams to run, orchestrate, and scale compute-intensive ML workloads in the cloud while managing large data volumes and complex applications. By combining open-source tooling with scalable orchestration, Outerbounds supports a wide range of applications—from state-of-the-art computer vision and large language models to business-oriented data science—used by hundreds of organizations across industries.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anyscale

Series A in 2019
Anyscale develops and operates distributed programming platforms for simplifying distributed AI development. It offers Ray, an open-source framework enabling software developers and machine learning engineers to scale applications effortlessly from a laptop to the cloud.

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.

Chef Software

Series D in 2013
Chef Software is a leading provider of Continuous Automation software based in Seattle, Washington. Renowned for its role in the DevOps movement, Chef collaborates with over a thousand innovative companies globally to facilitate digital transformation. Its flagship product, Chef Automate, integrates infrastructure and application management, enabling enterprises to swiftly and securely build, deploy, and manage applications across various environments. Additionally, Chef's Habitat product enhances application automation, supporting diverse release scenarios and modernization initiatives. The InSpec tool aids organizations in maintaining compliance and security during cloud migration through a 'Detect, Correct, Automate' strategy. Chef's open-source solutions allow users to define infrastructure as code, ensuring configurations are flexible, version-controlled, and easily readable. By continuously evaluating and correcting configuration states, Chef ensures consistent application management, thus empowering development, operations, and security teams to enhance their software delivery processes effectively.

Cask

Series A in 2012
Cask is an open-source software company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in simplifying the construction and operation of big data solutions. The company offers a unified integration platform that significantly accelerates the time required to deploy data applications and data lakes, reducing it by up to 80%. Cask's platform combines data integration and application development capabilities, facilitating rapid development in both public and private cloud environments. The company is supported by prominent investors, including Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Ignition Partners.
Spot something off? Help us improve by flagging any incorrect or outdated information. Just email us at support@teaserclub.com. Your feedback is most welcome.