It has been a busy start to 2026 here at Amplify. Since our announcement of Alex Rubalcava merging his firm, Stage Venture Partners, we’ve had a full docket of updates from the portfolio.

Mogul, a platform that brings transparency and automation to music royalty management, announced a $5M funding round after tracking more than $1.5 billion in music royalties on its platform. As the music industry continues to evolve, Mogul is helping artists, labels, and rights holders better manage complex royalty flows with modern infrastructure and data tools. Read more in TechCrunch. 

Manta Health, an Intelligent Coverage Platform for specialty practices, announced its $1.3M pre-seed round led by Amplify. Manta is focused on reducing the administrative burden surrounding coverage verification and revenue protection, helping practices confirm coverage faster, reduce avoidable denials, and minimize reimbursement delays.

InHouse, one of Alex’s portfolio companies at Stage, raised $5m to grow its legal services AI product for small businesses. Using purpose-built, attorney-trained AI, InHouse instantly drafts routine documents and solves issues for small companies that would cost ten times more and take weeks using standard means, freeing up lawyers to focus on larger, more complex matters for their clients. If you have a small business, check out InHouse today!

Volley rebrands to Weekend. Weekend makes interactive, AI-powered games that families play together on their TVs — Jeopardy, karaoke, trivia, dungeon crawlers, and more. Voice AI is the skeleton key that finally makes television interactive after fifty years of the same janky remote. And they're just getting started. Same team. Same mission. Better name.

SafeRide Health was recognized with the 2026 MedTech Breakthrough Award for Healthcare Analytics Innovation, highlighting the company’s leadership in using data-driven insights and AI to improve healthcare access and transportation outcomes. The award reflects SafeRide’s continued impact in advancing more reliable, transparent, and efficient non-emergency medical transportation services for patients and healthcare organizations nationwide. SafeRide now orchestrates over 1M rides per month for major health systems across the US.

GrayMatter Robotics, a Stage company that makes advanced robotics for high mix tasks, hosted customer signings and innovation demonstrations with a number of blue chip companies in early 2026, including Caterpillar and Huntington Ingalls Industries. CEO Ariyan Kabir also appeared on the widely watched TBPN podcast discussing the market for physical AI and robotics.

Products and Platform Updates across the Amplify Portfolio: RentSpree launched its Nurture module in partnership with FMLS, helping agents better engage rental leads. Strike Graph announced updates to its Trust Chain and Verify AI features, strengthening supplier risk and compliance workflows. Warp open-sourced its agentic development environment for building AI agents, giving developers new tools to build AI-powered workflows and applications in logistics. Mavvrik announced a partnership with Ingram Micro to help enterprises strengthen AI cost governance and gain greater visibility into cloud and generative AI spending through Mavvrik’s FinOps platform.

AI Updates Across the Portfolio: Several Amplify portfolio companies continue to advance new AI-powered products and features. Cheers launched an AI-powered credit-building platform, helping users improve their credit through automated monthly payments and personalized financial tools. Tapcart introduced new AI-powered personalization features for mobile e-commerce apps, helping brands create more tailored shopping experiences for customers. Sourcetable AI workflows for spreadsheet automation and business process automation, making complex data analysis and operational tasks more accessible through natural language prompts. Overworld announced the release of Waypoint-1.5, the latest version of its real-time diffusion world model focused on creating interactive, continuously responsive AI-generated environments.

Paul and Alex recently appeared on the Meb Faber Show (episode on YouTube, Apple, Spotify) to talk about the future of SaaS companies in a world upended by AI. Their appearance, recorded at the end of March and released in early April, coincided with a time of maximum fear in the public markets about the future of SaaS. Paul and Alex shared with Meb a thesis for identifying the companies likely to survive and thrive in the new world of AI, and the laggards likely to be left behind.  

Community Dinners: “Austin Tech Dinner” & “In Good Company: LA GP/VC Dinner”

In recent months, we’ve hosted several dinners to bring together people from the VC community, including a Tech Dinner in Austin and a GP/VC Dinner in Los Angeles. Our aim with these dinners is to continue expanding our network and foster connections among industry professionals. We’re excited to keep connecting with the community through fun events. Keep an eye out for more in the future!

VIA Quarterly Networking Events

Amplify’s Director of Operations, Katie Dean and Rosalind Chu from Healthy Ventures co-hosted the latest Los Angeles VIA event. 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. Their most recent events included a co-working day and a pottery-making class. If you are interested in attending the next event or joining the community, please reach out.

Check out our latest Job Board on the Amplify Website to see all available jobs! You can apply directly, or if you know anyone who could be a fit, feel free to pass it along!

Cheers, an AI fintech company helping immigrants and underserved consumers build credit in the U.S., is hiring a Contract Full Stack Developer to help us ship faster across mobile, backend, and AI-powered product features. For the JD, click here.