# The Upside of Merging Two Venture Firms with Alex Rubalcava and Connor Sundberg of Amplify LA

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Published: 2026-07-27T13:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

This is a very special episode of Compounders: number 100. To celebrate that milestone, my guests on the show today are Alex Rubalcava and Connor Sundberg, Managing Partner and Partner, respectively, at the early-stage VC firm Amplify LA. Alex and I have been friends for many years, and it is an absolute treat to finally get him on the podcast. Alex recently merged his firm, Stage Venture Partners, into Amplify, where Connor was already a Partner. In this intriguing conversation, we covered: The rationale for the merger of the two investment firms; How they expect decision making and sourcing to change going forward; The idea of focusing on companies that are tackling challenges that are different and hard; Their current views on the pre-seed and broader venture capital investment universe; and How the SaaS-pocalypse is and isn’t impacting how they view investing in enterprise software companies.

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