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Investing in former science projects with a thesis-driven approach.

Amplify is a pre-seed fund in Venice, CA dedicated to backing strong teams at the earliest stages and supporting from first check to exit.

Invests in technical founders building the next generation of applications, tools, and platforms for developers, data teams, ML engineers, and everything in between.

Privately owned hedge fund founded in 1999 investing across different sectors.

Rogue is a $60m early stage fund investing in deep tech as well as radical founders at the cross-sections of technology and culture.

For the most enterprising founders.

Partners with companies and founders trying to change the world, who want to upend paradigms, not just chase incremental progress. Over the past two decades, Lux has expanded from their New York City roots to Silicon Valley, and built a $4 billion AUM firm of more than 30 full-time professionals, with a wide spectrum of technical backgrounds and the versatility to invest at any stage.

Focuses on startups that apply technological advances in machine intelligence and enterprise infrastructure to solve real-world problems. In her first position as a Research Director for the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), Sarah and her team used advanced statistical models to predict the behavior of covert organizations, including Somali pirates, illicit charcoal traders, and jihadist insurgencies. She subsequently leveraged computational methods to help public agencies ranging from the US Joint Forces Command to the Secret Service anticipate and disrupt complex threats. Upon joining Mattermark as Head of Data, she applied similar approaches to incomplete and uncertain datasets on private companies. Sarah started her career in venture capital at Canvas Ventures, where she utilized similar methodologies to source the firm’s investments in Fluxx, Platform9, and Kinetica.

Founded Amplify in 2012, returning to the list in 2020. Prior to founding Amplify Partners, Sunil was a General Partner at Battery Ventures where he spent 14 years investing in category-defining IT infrastructure companies such as Chef, Netezza (acquired by IBM), Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK), CipherTrust (acquired by Secure Computing), and @stake (acquired by Symantec). Sunil gets tremendous energy from helping companies go from zero to one. Believing in an idea, helping it take shape, and then seeing it manifest in products, customers, and employees is magical.

Vibhor helps lead Venture Investing at Coatue, where he has invested in the following companies: Board: Aurora Solar, Fonoa, RunwayML, Latch Bio, Kurtosis, Unsupervised Investor: Notion, Hugging Face, Supabase, Weights & Biases, Clickhouse, Repl.it, Airbyte, Retool, Starburst Data, Kubecost, Tackle.io, Cove Tool, Bigeye, Lightning AI, Orbit, Edge Impulse, Gantry, Commerce Layer, Coursedog

invests at the nexus of web3, data infrastructure, and applications of AI/ML especially in healthcare and financial services. focuses on crypto and blockchain infrastructure companies building the next-gen web3 stack as well as data and machine-learning startups that are hyper-personalizing user experiences and transforming legacy industries. Before joining Lux, Grace was a principal at Canvas Ventures Prior to Canvas, Grace worked on the LP side at the Stanford Management Company

Josh co-founded Lux Capital to support scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time in order to lead us into a brighter future. The more ambitious the project, the better—like, say, creating matter from light. Josh is a Director at Shapeways, Strateos, Lux Research, Kallyope, CTRL-labs, Variant, and Varda, and helped lead the firm’s investments in Anduril, Planet, Echodyne, Clarifai, Authorea, Resilience and Hadrian. He is a founding investor and board member with Bill Gates in Kymeta, making cutting-edge antennas for high-speed global satellite and space communications.