Investments
177Portfolio Exits
25Funds
6About Amplify Partners
Amplify Partners is an early-stage venture capital fund. The fund backs technical entrepreneurs pursuing the multi-hundred-billion dollar disruption we refer to as Infrastructure 2.0. Infrastructure 2.0 is a term used to define the generational shift in technology, culture, and go-to-market that will redefine the IT infrastructure industry. The fund will make initial investments of $50,000 to $1.5 million in software-driven businesses mostly geared to enterprise IT customers. Amplify Partners was founded by Sunil Dhaliwal, a former General Partner at Battery Ventures.

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Latest Amplify Partners News
Sep 20, 2023
MotherDuck , a Seattle, WA-based builder of a serverless, data analytics platform based on open source database DuckDB, raised $52.5m in Series B funding. The round, which puts MotherDuck at a $400M post-money valuation and brings their total funding to date to $100M, was led by Felicis, with participation from new and existing investors a16z, Madrona, Amplify Partners, Altimeter, Redpoint, Zero Prime, among others. Led by Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck provides a serverless, data analytics platform based on open source database DuckDB. Its notebook-like SQL environment enables users to query local and remote data using a hybrid execution engine. The Modern Duck Stack is a suite of integrations which provide everything they need alongside MotherDuck for their data engineering pipelines: orchestration, ingestion, transformation, business intelligence, data science and AI capabilities. Following their initial product launch in June, the company announced 16 integrations with the platform. Today, MotherDuck is announcing 11 more: Cube, dltHub, Evidence, GoodData, Kestra, Metabase, InfinyOn, LlamaIndex, Sling, Streamlit, and Voltron Data. Airbyte will be available to users today, while integrations with Fivetran and Tableau are both underway. FinSMEs
Amplify Partners Investments
177 Investments
Amplify Partners has made 177 investments. Their latest investment was in Sonera as part of their Seed VC on September 9, 2023.

Amplify Partners Investments Activity

Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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9/12/2023 | Seed VC | Sonera | $11M | Yes | Abstract Ventures, Amplify Partners, Josh Duyan, Material Impact, Spark Capital, and Undisclosed Angel Investors | 3 |
7/19/2023 | Series C | Hightouch | $38M | No | 6 | |
6/20/2023 | Series A | Parrot | $11M | Yes | 2 | |
6/2/2023 | Seed VC - II | |||||
5/24/2023 | Series B |
Date | 9/12/2023 | 7/19/2023 | 6/20/2023 | 6/2/2023 | 5/24/2023 |
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Round | Seed VC | Series C | Series A | Seed VC - II | Series B |
Company | Sonera | Hightouch | Parrot | ||
Amount | $11M | $38M | $11M | ||
New? | Yes | No | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | Abstract Ventures, Amplify Partners, Josh Duyan, Material Impact, Spark Capital, and Undisclosed Angel Investors | ||||
Sources | 3 | 6 | 2 |
Amplify Partners Portfolio Exits
25 Portfolio Exits
Amplify Partners has 25 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Minerva Labs on March 15, 2023.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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3/15/2023 | Acquired | 8 | |||
4/26/2022 | Acquired | 2 | |||
10/29/2021 | Acquired | 2 | |||
Amplify Partners Fund History
6 Fund Histories
Amplify Partners has 6 funds, including Amplify Partners Select Fund IV.
Closing Date | Fund | Fund Type | Status | Amount | Sources |
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10/21/2020 | Amplify Partners Select Fund IV | $100M | 1 | ||
10/21/2020 | Amplify Partners IV | ||||
4/9/2020 | Amplify Partners Opportunity Fund III | ||||
9/18/2018 | Amplify Partners III | ||||
9/16/2015 | Amplify Partners II |
Closing Date | 10/21/2020 | 10/21/2020 | 4/9/2020 | 9/18/2018 | 9/16/2015 |
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Fund | Amplify Partners Select Fund IV | Amplify Partners IV | Amplify Partners Opportunity Fund III | Amplify Partners III | Amplify Partners II |
Fund Type | |||||
Status | |||||
Amount | $100M | ||||
Sources | 1 |
Amplify Partners Team
3 Team Members
Amplify Partners has 3 team members, including current Founder, General Partner, Sunil Dhaliwal.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
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Sunil Dhaliwal | Founder, General Partner | Current | |
Name | Sunil Dhaliwal | ||
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Work History | |||
Title | Founder, General Partner | ||
Status | Current |