Amplify 2025: A Year in Review

As we kick off a new year, we’re excited to look back on some of the Amplify highlights of 2025. With a surge in new AI tools and infrastructure, an unprecedented increase in access and on-ramps to builders, and a broader continued recovery in new investment at the earliest stages, 2025 was a strong year for Amplify and the founders we’re fortunate to support. And, thanks to all of you, we’ve been lucky to feel that our network and resources for supporting them are stronger than ever.

Amplify founders had a stellar 2025. Here are a few of our favorite highlights from the year:

• Publicly announced raises within the Amplify Portfolio: Warp ($10M Series A), Pryzm (12.2M Seed), Mavvrik ($6.2M Seed), Cascade Bio ($6M seed round), Abstract ($4.8M Seed), Sourcetable ($4.3M Seed), Genia ($3M Pre-Seed). We’re also thrilled to share more info on 6+ additional new fundraising rounds from 2025 in the new year as details are announced!

  

  Pryzm $12.2M Seed Round

• New rounds participated: Amplify invested in 7 new companies in 2025 – including new AI application layer startups in areas like construction and GTM, next-gen financial services and compliance tooling, healthcare and insurance services automation, and more we’re excited to share shortly. 

• Geographical coverage of new rounds: Half of our new portfolio companies were based in Los Angeles, while the others include Toronto, San Francisco, and Austin.

• Acquisitions: Humi was acquired by Employment Hero. 

• Los Angeles Business Journal’s LA 500 - for his 10th consecutive year in a row, Amplify’s managing partner, Paul Bricault, was featured on the annual list of the five hundred “most influential people in Los Angeles.” 

• 1H’25 Los Angeles Seed Deal Report: Amplify posted our bi-annual Seed Deal report, analyzing and sharing all publicly announced seed funding to Southern California companies.

• Inc.5000 2025 list: 3 Amplify portfolio companies were ranked on the Inc. 5000 list. SafreRide Health, FloQast, and Rentspree. SafeRide Health ranked no. 358, placing it among the top 7% of the fastest-growing private companies in America.

Amplify is dedicated to empowering and uniting the Venture Capital ecosystem, going beyond just investments. We host a variety of events, including founder dinners, VC dinners, happy hours, panels, roundtables, and more. Our favorite events we hosted and participated in throughout 2025 were LA Tech Week, our AI event series, and our operations/platform event series. 

LA Tech Week: For our event, we brought together some of LA’s most promising early-stage founders and investors for an afternoon of meaningful connections and collaboration, co-hosted with our close friends at Bling Capital and Act One Ventures. We also joined Alpha Edison’s inaugural PitchLive event, where Amplify Managing Partner Paul Bricault served on the judging panel to evaluate the finalists.

AI Event Series: As part of an ongoing AI series, Amplify hosted a panel titled “Navigating the AI Landscape.” While many discussions focus on future possibilities, this panel cut through the noise to examine what is actually happening in the field. From voice games reaching millions of users to enterprise transformations that genuinely stick, our panelists shared valuable insights on building, selling, and funding AI products that people use and pay for. The reality of bringing AI from demo to market is complex, and we will continue to evolve this series throughout 2026.

Operations/Platform Event Series: Director of Operations, Katie Dean, has served as one of VIA’s LA chapter co-leads throughout 2025. VIA is a community for venture capital fund operators, platform leads, strategists, and builders who manage various aspects such as investor relations, marketing, talent, finance, operations, and more. Throughout the year, Katie organized two quarterly events aimed at fostering community among individuals who often operate as a "team of one" within VC firms. We are excited to continue this series in 2026. If you know someone who would benefit from joining this group, please reach out.

A huge thank you to all of you: our founders, partners, investors, and the tech community broadly for your unwavering support and collaboration throughout 2025. Together, we look forward to an even more remarkable and impactful 2026!