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Amplify Partners
Describes itself as the first investor for technical founders and states it backs leading engineers, researchers and scientists. Names early positions in Datadog, Fastly, Runway, Modal, Luma, Temporal and Chainguard.
Criteria: States a focus on technical founders building applications, models, tools and infrastructure, spanning artificial intelligence and machine learning, data infrastructure and developer tools. Publishes no stage definitions, no check sizes and no fund size.
What this means for your pitchThe filter here is you rather than your metrics. A firm describing itself as the first investor for technical founders is telling you it will read your engineering before your spreadsheet, which is good news if you are pre-revenue and bad news if your real advantage is commercial rather than technical.
Stage definitions, check sizes and fund size are not published by the firm.
Amplify PartnersChecked 17 August 2026
From Amplify Partners's own site and announcements · checked 26 August 2026 · selective, not comprehensive · verify on the firm's pages
Amplify announced $900 million in new capital across three funds: Fund 6, a $400 million core fund for technical founders raising their first institutional round; Fund 6 Select, a $300 million fund for existing portfolio companies; and Amplify Bio, a $200 million fund that is the firm's first dedicated to digital biology. Elliot Hershberg, a Stanford computational biology PhD, joined as Partner to lead the bio fund.
Amplify announced it co-led an $18.5 million seed round in Taste, a company building annotation infrastructure for subjective AI evaluation. The firm states Taste recruits a curated community of evaluators through a trust propagation model so that models can learn quality judgments in subjective domains such as design.
Amplify announced its investment in Superlogical, a company building orchestration primitives for software work increasingly carried out by autonomous agents across many environments and interfaces. The founding team includes HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto, early HashiCorp engineer Jack Pearkes, and founding designers from Poolside.