Sunil Dhaliwal founded Amplify Partners in 2012 as one of the earliest solo-GP, deeply technical, sector-focused VC firms, designing it as a durable platform rather than a one-off vehicle, and has spent over 25 years backing category-defining infrastructure companies like Splunk, Datadog, and Fastly across multiple market cycles. He systematically backs domain experts building in hard computer-science areas by evaluating founders through their intimate experience with technical problems, and unusually focuses on AI-powered robotics that reshape the physical economy through companies like Covariant in logistics and Iron Ox in agriculture.

• A major focus on the intersection of AI and digital biology, specifically regarding foundation models and large-scale data generation for drug discovery. He prioritizes the velocity of a model's improvement over static historical benchmarks, as seen in his deep analysis of how companies like Tahoe AI and Boltz Bio are using massive datasets to address failure rates in cancer drug trials.
• Invests in next-generation developer tools, data infrastructure, and AI cloud platforms. He values technical differentiation and novel approaches to established problems, evidenced by his enthusiasm for System Initiative's DevOps tools and Fermyon's serverless framework based on Web Assembly.
• Enthusiasm for generative AI tools that merge frontier research with exceptional product design to empower creators. He frequently highlights RunwayML as a prime example, praising their combination of ambitious technical execution and product taste that allows artists to realize visions previously impossible.
• Values high-velocity execution and technical founders who prioritize speed and ambition. He explicitly commends teams that move fast and speak authentically to their audience, such as the Warpstream team, and notes that rational actors in the current market bet on the rate of improvement rather than just current status.