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Amplify Partners Fund 6

Geography: United States
Stage: Pre-Seed
Fund size: $400M
Focus: AI/ML and SaaS
Signals: Published

N°01 / About

About Amplify Partners Fund 6

Amplify Partners Fund 6 is a venture capital firm based in United States, focusing on Pre-Seed stage investments. The fund actively supports founders building innovative solutions in AI/ML, SaaS, providing strategic guidance and capital to help startups scale.

N°02 / Thesis

Investment Focus

Location / RegionUnited States

Funding StagePre-Seed

Industry Focus

AI/ML

SaaS

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Deep-technical founder building infra, AI agents, or dev tools

technical founders

AI/ML infra

developer tools

open source

agentic-era primitives

agent tooling

deterministic simulation testing

systems databases

onchain finance

bio/immune engineering

file systems for agents

agent harness engineering

secure supply chain

Bullish Signals

15 yrs backing top engineers/researchersexternal

Portfolio: Datadog, Runway, Temporal, dbtexternal

First check investor since 2012external

Strong founder trust (Scribe, Temporal quotes)external

Led exe.dev $25M Series A recentlyexternal

Avoca $125M Series A+B announcedexternal

Hightouch $150M Series D portfolio winexternal

Active: Modal, Chainguard, Luma, Covariantexternal

2026 AI Engineering Survey: 1000+ engineerstwitter

Bet on agents, file systems, deterministic testingwebsite

Invested in Allium, Engram, Taste, TigerBeetlewebsite

Recent: Superlogical investment with Mitchell Hashimototwitter

AI cost driving 75% of engineers' decisionstwitter

Writing fellowship launched; frontier research focustwitter

Weights Unknown conference; community building activetwitter

CedarDB, TigerBeetle: novel database architectureswebsite

Deep technical writeups: DST primer, database designwebsite

Waypoint Bio: immune engineering & biotechwebsite

Agent context engineering: Hightouch long-running harnesswebsite

Founder testimonial: Mike first call on hard problemswebsite

Jennifer Smith testimonial: Scribe CEO, tough love trustedwebsite

Chainguard: secure supply chain for open sourcewebsite

Modal: serverless AI inference & batch processingwebsite

Luma AI creative tools for film & studioswebsite

Runway foundational AI models for creatorswebsite

dbt Labs: data warehouse engineering best practiceswebsite

Contrarian Signals

Hyper-niche: technical founders onlyexternal

GPs not fully named publiclyexternal

Expanding to bio — thesis drift riskexternal

Broader bets: biotech (Waypoint), onchainwebsite

Agent tooling gap: code review, not authorshiptwitter

Founder Do's

Be an engineer, researcher, or scientist

Building infra, models, or dev tools

Show deep technical depth

Seek first check / pre-seed partner

Open to long-term GP partnership

Build for fastest learners, not biggest models

Focus on speed & iteration over perfection

Design for modern hardware & edge cases

Engage with Amplify writing fellowship/research

Founder Don'ts

Non-technical or biz-only founders

Late-stage or growth-only plays

Consumer apps without technical moat

Ignoring cost dynamics in AI development

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Facts

Fund Overview

Fund Size$400M

Saves0

Website

People

Key People

Lenny Russ, Mike Dauber, Sarah Catanzaro

Mike (Amplify Partner)Partner

Lenny PrussPartner

Sarah CatanzaroPartner

David BeyerPartner

Tim BabcockPartner

Backers

Known LPs

Sapphire PartnersFund-of-Funds

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