Mike Dauber

General Partner at Amplify Partners · Joined 2014

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Biography

Mike Dauber is a General Partner at Amplify Partners, which he joined in 2014 to help co-founder Sunil Dhaliwal build the firm. He studied electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, started his career as a hardware engineer at a semiconductor startup in 2001, then spent about five years in product, sales, solutions engineering and marketing roles before joining Battery Ventures as an investor in 2008. He also holds an MBA from The Wharton School. His Amplify bio lists Archera, Avoca, Chainguard, DataLane, Gremlin, Maze, Scribe, SiMa.ai and Temporal among his select companies.

Education

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

DataLaneSiMa.aiChainguardScribeTemporalGremlinStackRoxDetermined

Career Timeline

2001
Started his career as a hardware engineer at a semiconductor startup.
2008
Joined Battery Ventures and began his career as a venture investor.
2014
Joined Amplify Partners to help Sunil Dhaliwal build the firm.
2022
Wrote Amplify's post on doubling down on its investment in SiMa.ai alongside the company's roughly $67 million Series B1.
2025
Co-authored Amplify's announcement that it led DataLane's $22 million Series A.

Sources & References

Amplify Partners - Mike Dauber ↗Amplify Partners - Team ↗Amplify Partners - Rules in the (New) Semiconductor Age and Doubling Down on Our Investment in Sima.ai ↗Amplify Partners - Announcing Datalane: building the data layer for the local economy ↗Amplify Partners - Mike Dauber author page ↗