We are the #1 Product Intelligence platform helping companies build better products
Amplitude powers over 40,000 digital products from 180+ countries around the world. We've tracked over 28 trillion user actions to help digital product and growth teams instantly understand user behavior, build engaging experiences, and grow their business.
History
2012
- Amplitude founders accepted into Y Combinator (YC W12)
2013
- Develops custom analytics database
2014
- Launch Amplitude, a real-time mobile analytics platform
2015
- Amplitude Raises $9M Series A led by Benchmark with Quest Venture Partners, Data Collective, Merus Capital, Charlie Cheever, Dave Morin, and other angel investors
- Introduces NOVA, a custom-built column store designed for behavioral analytics
2016
- Named Forbes 2016 Cloud 100 Rising Star
- Raises $15M Series B led by Battery Ventures and adds Neeraj Agrawal to Board of Directors
- Launches Compass to help companies pinpoint specific user behaviors that drive long-term retention
- Releases Amplitude 2.0
2017
- Introduces the Product Analytics Playbook, a comprehensive guide to retention across all stages of the user lifecycle
- Opens EMEA HQ
- Raises $30M Series C led by IVP and adds Somesh Dash to Board of Directors as an Observer
- Launches Taxonomy to enable customers to build trust with 100% data integrity
- Launches Insight so customers can ship faster with real-time alerts
- Launches Scale to help high-volume customers access billions of actions without compromising speed, accuracy, or cost
- Launches Accounts to accelerate product growth for B2B customers
- Opens New York office
2018
- Announces Amplitude Startup Scholarship, a 90% scholarship discount for seed stage startups
- Launches Schema, an addition to Taxonomy that helps you take full control over the data Amplitude collects
- Launches Portfolio, the first command center for product executives
- Announces GDPR readiness
- Launched the Growth Engine, the industry’s first rapid product iteration system
- Organized AMPLIFY - the world’s most prestigious product conference attended by over 1200 product and growth leaders
- Raised Series D round led by Sequoia and Lead Edge Capital
- Launched the world’s first Product Intelligence platform, combining behavioral analytics and modern practices for growth to help companies scale their digital revenue
2019
- Launched the digital experience competency with AWS
- Released Impact Analysis for teams to understand how product changes affect engagement behavior
- Released Notebooks to help teams have conversations about data and collaborate on insights
2020
- Acquires Clearbrain, innovator in the predictive analytics space
- Raises $50M Series E round, surpassing $1B valuation
- Debuts on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500
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Meet the Leadership Team
Spenser Skates
Chief Executive Officer, Founder
Spenser Skates
Chief Executive Officer, Founder
Spenser cofounded Amplitude in 2012 to help companies build better products through product analytics. He previously worked as an algorithmic trader at DRW Trading Group and studied Bioengineering at MIT where he won Battlecode, MIT’s largest programming competition, twice.
Curtis Liu
Chief Technology Officer, Founder
Curtis Liu
Chief Technology Officer, Founder
Curtis developed the core of Amplitude’s technology and brings experience from Electronic Arts and Google. He studied EECS at MIT and is a 2x winner of Battlecode, MIT’s largest programming competition.
Jeffrey Wang
Chief Architect, Founder
Jeffrey Wang
Chief Architect, Founder
Jeffrey owns the infrastructure that enables us to scan billions of events every second. He studied Computer Science at Stanford and brings experience building infrastructure from Palantir and Sumo Logic.
Jennifer Johnson (JJ)
Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer
Jennifer Johnson (JJ)
Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer
Jennifer Johnson (JJ) leads the global marketing, partnerships and customer experience organizations. Prior to Amplitude, JJ was CMO at Tenable (Nasdaq: TENB) and was instrumental in its 2018 IPO. JJ was also CMO at Tanium and Coverity (now Synopsys), and a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz.
Hoang Vuong
Chief Financial Officer
Hoang Vuong
Chief Financial Officer
Hoang has served in leadership roles at many fast-growth software and consumer internet companies. Previously, he was CFO/COO for GoFundMe. Prior to that, he was VP and General Manager of Intuit Demandforce and was CFO of Demandforce prior to its acquisition by Intuit. In addition, Hoang was CEO at Unisfair, CFO at SideStep, Inc., and held management positions at NetIQ and Deloitte.
Matt Heinz
Chief Revenue Officer
Matt Heinz
Chief Revenue Officer
Matt oversees Amplitude’s growing global sales efforts. He has spent over a decade leading sales teams; prior to Amplitude, Matt spent eight years as a sales executive at Marketo, establishing the company’s enterprise sales business as the company’s fastest growing segment.
Justin Bauer
EVP of Product
Justin Bauer
EVP of Product
As EVP of Product, Justin strives to make it easy for companies to make better decisions based on their data. He’s a 2x entrepreneur as well as an alumnus of McKinsey, Stanford GSB, and Carleton College.
Shadi Rostami
EVP of Engineering
Shadi Rostami
EVP of Engineering
Shadi is a passionate, seasoned technology leader and architect experienced in building and managing highly proficient engineering teams. Prior to Amplitude, she worked at Palo Alto networks as a VP of Engineering. She has a Ph.D. in computer engineering from University of British Columbia and a B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology.
Meet the Board of Directors
Spenser Skates
Chief Executive Officer, Founder
Spenser Skates
Chief Executive Officer, Founder
Spenser cofounded Amplitude in 2012 to help companies build better products through product analytics. He previously worked as an algorithmic trader at DRW Trading Group and studied Bioengineering at MIT where he won Battlecode, MIT’s largest programming competition, twice.
Curtis Liu
Chief Technology Officer, Founder
Curtis Liu
Chief Technology Officer, Founder
Curtis developed the core of Amplitude’s technology and brings experience from Electronic Arts and Google. He studied EECS at MIT and is a 2x winner of Battlecode, MIT’s largest programming competition.
Eric Vishria
Board Member, Benchmark Capital
Eric Vishria
Board Member, Benchmark Capital
Eric Vishria is a general partner at Benchmark, where he focuses on early stage infrastructure and enterprise software. Vishria brings a long and varied background as an executive in technology startups and public companies, including consumer and enterprise, and across a range of functions including product, marketing and operations. He led Benchmark’s investments in and holds board seats on Confluent, Blue Hexagon, Benchling, Contentful, Cerebras Systems, and Bugsnag.
Neeraj Agrawal
Board Member, Battery Ventures
Neeraj Agrawal
Board Member, Battery Ventures
Neeraj joined Battery in 2000 and invests in SaaS and internet companies across all stages. Some of his past exits include AppDynamics (acq. by Cisco); BladeLogic (NASDAQ: BLOG, acquired by BMC); Bazaarvoice (NASDAQ: BV); Coupa (NASDAQ:COUP); Glassdoor (acquired by Recruit Holdings); Guidewire Software (NYSE: GWRE); Marketo; Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX); Omniture; RealPage (NASDAQ: RP); and Wayfair (NYSE: W).
Pat Grady
Board member, Sequoia
Pat Grady
Board member, Sequoia
Pat is a Partner at Sequoia Capital, where he has had the privilege of working with Amplitude, Attentive, Cribl, Drift, Embark, HubSpot (HUBS), Jive, MarkLogic, Medallia (MDLA), Namely, Okta (OKTA), OpenDNS, Qualtrics, ServiceNow (NOW), Snowflake (SNOW), Sumo Logic (SUMO), Sunrun (RUN), Zoom (ZM), and some others. Pat holds a B.S. from Boston College, grew up in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming, and now lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two daughters.
Ron Gill
Board Member
Ron Gill
Board Member
Ron Gill is the former CFO of NetSuite and currently an Operating Partner at Lead Edge Capital and a board member of HubSpot, Amplitude, Benchling, and others. Prior to joining NetSuite, Mr. Gill was vice president, finance, at Hyperion Solutions. Previously, he held a variety of financial positions with several of the world’s largest technology companies, including SAP, Dell, and Sony. Mr. Gill holds a Master of International Business Studies degree from the University of South Carolina and a B.A. from Baylor University.
Erica Schultz
Board member
Erica Schultz
Board member
Erica Schultz is President of Field Operations at Confluent, the real-time data streaming platform, and oversees sales, business development and customer success teams globally. Prior to Confluent, Erica served as New Relic’s Chief Revenue Officer where she played an instrumental role in driving the company’s growth since the company’s IPO in 2014. Prior to that, she spent nearly 17 years at Oracle Corporation, where she pioneered the company’s cloud go-to-market strategy.
Somesh Dash
Board Observer, IVP
Somesh Dash
Board Observer, IVP
Somesh Dash is a Silicon Valley-based technology investor. He works for IVP, a leading technology-focused Venture Capital fund, and has led investments in Brex, Discord, Dropbox, Expanse, Humu, Lime, Lyra Health, Rubrik, Tanium, Thrive Global and Uber. He has a Bachelors from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and a MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
Ethel Chen
Board Observer, GIC
Ethel Chen
Board Observer, GIC
Ethel Chen is a Senior Vice President with the Technology Investment Group (TIG) at GIC, one of the largest institutional investors in the world. TIG is a global team that invests directly in private and public technology companies and also serves as a limited partner in top-tier tech funds. TIG has offices in Silicon Valley, China, and India. Ethel has a MBA from Harvard Business School and degrees in Computer Science (BS) and Management Science (MS) from Stanford University.