Mike Dauber is a venture capital investor at Amplify Partners who has built a longstanding partnership with the firm's founder since their time together at Battery Ventures, shaping Amplify's culture around being a firm built for the long term rather than just a sequence of funds. He focuses specifically on cloud and infrastructure investing, authors an annual AI Engineering Report, and has led investments in developer tools and infrastructure companies like Abstract and Buddybuild, positioning himself as a go-to partner for deeply technical founders building tools and platforms for engineers. Mike Dauber is a venture capital investor at Amplify Partners who has built a longstanding partnership with the firm's founder since their time together at Battery Ventures, shaping Amplify's culture around being a firm built for the long term rather than just a sequence of funds. He focuses specifically on cloud and infrastructure investing, authors an annual AI Engineering Report, and has led investments in developer tools and infrastructure companies like Abstract and Buddybuild, positioning himself as a go-to partner for deeply technical founders building tools and platforms for engineers.