Amplify Partners

Provides early-stage capital and hands-on company-building support to help technical founders develop and grow their businesses.

Helps startups navigate legal topics across the company lifecycle with guidance on formation, financing, employee equity, and operations.

Helps technically minded writers research deeply, strengthen their writing practice, and publish work with editorial and cohort support.

Early-stage venture investment in technical founders building infrastructure and developer platforms, from initial funding through Series A, with operational support as companies grow.

Products: Early-stage venture investing

Early-stage venture investment in companies addressing data and artificial intelligence challenges, supported by expertise in recruiting, go-to-market execution, marketing, and design.

Products: Early-stage venture investing

Early-stage venture investment in researcher- and scientist-led digital biology companies, combining capital with practical company-building support.

Products: Early-stage venture investing

Early-stage venture investing

Amplify Partners invests in and supports technical founders, including engineers, researchers, and scientists building companies around complex technical challenges. The firm leads investments from a company’s first round through Series A and supports founders as their companies grow, with support extending through IPO. Its Build Team works closely with portfolio companies in structured, goal-oriented engagements, providing practical expertise across sales, recruiting, growth, marketing, and design.

Category: Venture Capital Financing

• Secure Early-Stage Capital
  Founders can work with an investor that leads funding from the first round through Series A.
• Partner With Technical-Focused Investors
  Technical founders can partner with investors whose focus and experience are aligned with technical products and the challenges involved in building them.
• Access Long-Term Founder Support
  Founders can continue to receive support as their companies develop beyond the initial investment stages, through IPO.
• Build And Scale Sales
  Founders can get practical guidance on go-to-market organizations, customer acquisition, sales motions, and sales priorities.
• Get Focused, Experienced Support
  Founders work directly with experienced Build Team leaders in structured engagements focused on their companies’ needs.
• Strengthen Your Market Story
  Founders receive help positioning technical products through messaging, content, websites, documentation, and technical writing.
• Find And Hire The Right People
  Founders get support defining hiring needs, identifying candidates, communicating the company’s opportunity, and building recruiting practices to attract and retain talent.
• Develop Product And Design Practice
  Founders can get guidance on product and design decisions, design systems, team development, and integrating design practices across the organization.

Startup Legal Hub

Startup Legal Hub is an informational resource that guides startups through legal challenges from company inception through exit. Its guides cover company formation, incorporations and 83(b) elections; equity financing processes and documents; SAFEs, convertible notes and term sheets; employee equity, early exercise, vesting and acceleration; and California pay transparency.

• Understand Incorporation And 83(B) Elections
  Gives startups resources to learn about incorporation and 83(b) elections as they navigate legal matters from company inception.
• Prepare For Equity Financing
  Provides information about equity financing timelines, processes, and documents so startups can consult resources on key parts of a financing.
• Compare Startup Financing Options
  Helps startups learn about SAFEs, convertible notes, term sheets, and the differences between SAFEs and priced equity.
• Understand Employee Equity Types
  Helps startups learn about common stock, options, and RSUs and how these types of equity are commonly granted to employees at different stages of a private company.
• Navigate SAFE Financing
  Provides information about the timeline, process, and documents involved in SAFE financing.
• Learn Equity Exercise And Vesting
  Provides information about early exercise, vesting, and acceleration for startups navigating employee equity topics.
• Review California Pay Transparency
  Offers a resource on California pay transparency as part of the hub’s operations-related legal topics.

Amplify Writing Fellowship

A paid, part-time fellowship for people with technical backgrounds, including developers, researchers, and scientists, to spend two to three months exploring an idea or topic through deep research and writing. Fellows work in a structured environment with a small group of writers and researchers, receive guidance from a dedicated editor, and can collaborate on research with teams Amplify works with. The fellowship is designed for people who want to research and publish about a topic more deeply and improve their writing practice.

• Explore Ideas In Depth
  Fellows can focus on a topic or problem over the fellowship, pursuing the deep research and exploration the program is designed to encourage.
• Publish Researched Writing
  The fellowship supports fellows in developing research into published writing.
• Improve Writing With An Editor
  Fellows work with a dedicated editor as they develop their writing practice and research for publication.
• Receive A Monthly Stipend
  Fellows receive a monthly stipend while participating in the paid fellowship.
• Join A Small Writer Cohort
  Fellows take part in a small group of writers and researchers, providing a shared setting for the fellowship.
• Collaborate With Technical Teams
  The program offers the prospect of research collaboration with technical teams in Amplify’s network, including teams at Runway, Modal, Chainguard, Temporal, and Hex.
• Pursue Research Part Time
  The two-to-three-month, part-time format allows fellows to explore and write about an idea or topic during the fellowship.