We build analytics software to help companies build better products
Over 12,000 companies from 180+ countries around the world use Amplitude. We track over 4 trillion user actions every year to help product teams instantly understand user behavior, build engaging experiences, and grow their digital businesses.
Our Mission
Our mission is to help product teams rapidly build digital products that work better for the customer 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
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Meet the Leadership Team
Spenser Skates
CEO, Founder
Spenser Skates
CEO, 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
CTO, Founder
Curtis Liu
CTO, 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.
Justin Bauer
VP of Product
Justin Bauer
VP of Product
As VP 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.
Caitlin Haberberger
Chief Financial Officer
Caitlin Haberberger
Chief Financial Officer
Caitlin leads financial, people, and office operations. She brings significant experience building infrastructure to support company growth, and most recently worked at Flite and Hearsay Systems.
Matt Althauser
Chief Operating Officer
Matt Althauser
Chief Operating Officer
Matt leads the Go-To-Market functions at Amplitude and loves to help companies leverage data to make better decisions. Before Amplitude, he was the GM for Optimizely’s EMEA offices.
James Donelan
Chief Development Officer
James Donelan
Chief Development Officer
James leads technology and engineering, bringing extensive experience in analytics, cloud infrastructure, PaaS, and mobile. Before Amplitude, James ran engineering at MuleSoft, Lithium, and other fast growing enterprise software companies.
Erik De Muinck Keizer
General Manager, EMEA
Erik De Muinck Keizer
General Manager, EMEA
Before joining Amplitude, Erik spent 11 years at Google. While he was there, he was a founding member of Google’s Enterprise Division in EMEA, where he grew their Search Appliance product to become a profitable part of the business. He also founded and ran Google’s Cloud organization in Benelux, leading the division to become a sizable and profitable revenue driver.