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Sunil Dhaliwal

Founder & General Partner
Investor Bay Area
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Background
  • Founded Amplify Partners in 2012
  • 14 years as General Partner at Battery Ventures — invested in Splunk, Netezza/IBM, Chef, CipherTrust
  • Named to Forbes Midas List (top 100 global VCs)
  • Entire career focused on enterprise infrastructure investing
  • Built Amplify specifically to be the premier technical-founder seed fund
Investment Focus
  • Deeply technical founders solving hard infrastructure problems
  • Distributed systems, data infrastructure, information security, AI/ML
  • Developer infrastructure, data tooling, AI infrastructure and models
  • Companies at defensible technical layers with high barriers to entry
  • Engineers, researchers, and scientists solving problems they understand firsthand
Notable Investments
  • Datadog (seed investor, 2012 — NYSE: DDOG, $40B+ market cap)
  • Fastly (seed investor, 2012 — IPO 2019)
  • Temporal (seed — workflow engine, $1.5B valuation)
  • Modal (serverless AI inference and batch compute)
  • Runway (generative video AI), Luma AI (3D/video AI)
  • DatologyAI (AI data curation), Chainguard (supply chain security)
  • At Battery: Splunk (IPO), Netezza (IBM), Chef
AI Agent Relevance
  • Arguably the single most relevant seed investor for AI agent infrastructure
  • Amplify was built to be the first check for deeply technical infrastructure founders — this is the entire firm identity
  • Track record (Datadog, Splunk, Fastly, Temporal) demonstrates proven ability to identify foundational infrastructure companies
  • Current portfolio includes Modal (AI compute), Temporal (workflow orchestration — directly relevant to agent orchestration), Runway and Luma (AI models)
  • $400M Fund VI with $300M Select fund for follow-on provides substantial capital
  • Operating model as a "technical think tank" means deep technical engagement, not just capital
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