technical-founders
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Brittany Walker
Brittany Walker is a General Partner at CRV in San Francisco who writes first checks to technical founders in AI, infrastructure software, and frontier technology. She joined CRV in 2020, was promoted to General Partner in 2024, and co-founded The Table, a community for women building in enterprise.
Dana Oshiro
Dana Oshiro is General Partner at Heavybit, San Francisco's specialist fund for developer-first and cloud infrastructure startups. She joined in 2014 as the firm's original Operating Partner and has since helped launch 60+ developer products, led early positioning for companies like Snyk, LaunchDarkly, Netlify, CircleCI, and PagerDuty, and co-founded the DevGuild conference series. Before tech, she worked in public health and political strategy in Canada, including campaigns to establish North America's first safe injection site. Her investment sweet spot is $1.5M at pre-seed to Series A, backing technical founders building category-defining enterprise infrastructure.
Lenny Pruss
Lenny Pruss is a General Partner at Amplify Partners, a Menlo Park-based early-stage venture firm focused on deeply technical founders building developer tools, data infrastructure, and enterprise software. A Soviet-born refugee who grew up in Silicon Valley during the 1990s tech boom, Pruss studied EECS at UC Berkeley and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he co-founded Rock Venture Partners, a student-led seed fund. Before Amplify, he backed companies like Datadog at RRE Ventures and led HashiCorp's investment at Redpoint Ventures. His portfolio now spans more than a dozen infrastructure and developer-tools bets, including Cockroach Labs, dbt, Temporal, Dagster, Sourcegraph, Chainguard, and Antithesis, reflecting a conviction that the hard problems in software correctness, data movement, and security are still largely unsolved.
Mike Dauber
Mike Dauber is a General Partner at Amplify Partners, a Menlo Park-based venture firm with over $900M under management focused exclusively on deeply technical founders. A former hardware engineer turned enterprise sales executive at Altera and Xilinx, he brings rare operator credibility to early-stage investing across developer tools, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and AI. He backed companies including Chainguard, Temporal, and Gremlin, and earlier investments include Splunk's rise to NASDAQ. His investing philosophy centers on 'practitioner founders' - operators who have lived the problems they solve.
Sunil Dhaliwal
Sunil Dhaliwal is the Founder and General Partner of Amplify Partners, one of the earliest solo-GP, deeply technical, sector-focused VC firms in Silicon Valley. Since launching with a $40M fund in 2012, he has built Amplify into a $900M+ platform backing engineers, researchers, and scientists at the seed and Series A stages. His portfolio includes Datadog, Fastly, Recursion, LangChain, Luma AI, and 170+ active companies across infrastructure, developer tools, AI/ML, and digital biology. Named twice to the Forbes Midas List, Dhaliwal brings over 25 years of experience investing in category-defining technology companies.