The first investor for technical founders. Early backers of Datadog, Modal, Temporal, Runway, Luma, Chainguard, dbt Labs, Hightouch, Scribe, and more.
San Francisco & Menlo Park
Joined October 2012
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Amplify companies on Hacker News last month: porting Doom to SQL (@cedar_db), Mercury 3 (@_inception_ai), DuckDB 2.0 speed (@motherduck), and @hexanalytics’ new round. Browse all the stories making Hacker News at your leisure here: amplifypartners.com/amplify-…
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they do say Exe is magic..........
We're hosting our second @exedev developer meetup this Monday in North Beach. Teaming up with our friends at @raindrop_ai for this one. @benhylak will be one of our speakers. ♥️ We'll also have a MAGICIAN. Come hang out with us! luma.com/cbpgjghx
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We are entering a world where running code hasn’t been read by anybody. Formal verification is tailor-made for this problem — and AI makes it far more tractable than it used to be: amplifypartners.com/blog-pos…
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For years, audio was at the bottom of AI’s coolness hierarchy. That neglect created an opening — and a small open lab in Paris walked through it. Full story on how Kyutai and @GradiumAI are winning where big labs stalled: amplifypartners.com/blog-pos…
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Git’s quirks have (mostly) been manageable for humans. But when agents write most of our code, they become untenable. jj’s always-committed model might be the better version control (for humans and agents): amplifypartners.com/blog-pos…
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how can you not love Hex
Today we’re announcing our $100M raise, led by
@peakxvpartners and @137ventures, with
@AvraCap, @a16z, @sequoia, @Redpoint, @ZeroPrimeVC, and @AmplifyPartners
all joining the round.
And that’s not all: we’re also launching Hex 4.0, a new foundation built for agents. Everything is code, so agents can work with your data and people can verify every number. This round lets us keep building on that foundation without slowing down growth or hiring.
More on Hex 4.0 later today.
We’re deeply grateful to the 2,500+ teams building on Hex. There’s still so much to build, and it’s never been a better time to work with data.
Hear more from our CEO, @barrald → lnkd.in/e7A2UNPe
AI search is actually five separate problems masquerading as one feature. Decision to search, tool calling, SERP APIs, query generation, citations. Each one is hard.
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For many top labs, 90% of the GPU fleet dedicated to RL training isn’t actually training. It’s generating data via inference while the trainer sits idle. Some research on how labs are solving this: amplifypartners.com/blog-pos…
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Most AI platforms give you pre-uploaded models and APIs. @modal built a container runtime from scratch, two custom filesystems, and a multi-cloud GPU router — a complete data cloud: amplifypartners.com/blog-pos…
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If you are hearing about @modal for the first time today, and wondering why people keep saying they're "AI infra" and not just "an inference provider" boy do we have the deep dive for you!
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Join the Swamp Club.
I am thrilled to tell you that Swamp Club has raised $7m in seed funding from @AmplifyPartners, Encoded Ventures, @jesserobbins, and @stolinski. Swamp is a platform for building AI systems from repeatable behaviors, rather than from token-hungry agent-centric designs. More exciting to me than the money (which I'm stoked about,) or the product itself (which continues to surprise and delight me every day,) is the incredible group of people who have started solving real, practical, everyday problems with Swamp. They teach me new and exciting things about how to build with AI every day.
I'm grateful to my co-founders, who have poured every ounce of their creativity, passion, and intelligence into Swamp. I'm grateful to our users and customers (big and small) - there is no greater gift you can give to an entrepreneur than the validation that comes with voting with your wallets. And I'm grateful to our investors, who see the opportunity we see, and want to make it happen with us. It's such a cliche to say that there has never been a better time to build - but really, it feels like there has never been a better time to build. Come join the Club.
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The biggest hiring mistake at seed stage: hiring for where you think you’ll be in five years instead of where you are today. A great engineer is only great if they’re the right engineer for your current stage. amplifypartners.com/blog-pos…
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Congrats to @modal on another incredible revenue milestone and baller fundraise.
We are proud to participate in this round and continue bothering @bernhardsson in Slack.
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It is an auspicious week not only because it's @TechCrunch Disrupt but also because 4 Amplify companies just got named to their top 60 list.
(P.S. @badgalgge is on the stage there judging startups today)
BREAKING: the first @exedev meetup is finally happening in SF at the @sentry office.
luma.com/0qr6bxcw
The reality of cancer drug discovery is brutal: only 1 in 10,000 promising molecules actually helps patients. Most AI biotech focuses on generating more candidates faster. Instead, @tahoe_ai is building digital cell models to predict which drugs will actually work: amplifypartners.com/blog-pos…
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Technical founders hiring their first marketer are essentially navigating a dark cave. Dana Wolf, former SVP at Fastly, wrote a practical guide to finding your footing: amplifypartners.com/blog-pos…
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