# Alex Clayton

> Alex Clayton is a Series B investor at Meritech Capital Partners backing Software. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Meritech Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meritech-capital-partners)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aclayton/

Alex Clayton is a Series B investor at Meritech Capital Partners in Menlo Park focused on Software and Information Technology. Alex Clayton is currently working at Meritech Capital, Superblocks, ClickUp, Xentral ERP Software, and Personio.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 39% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 13% |
| SaaS | 2 | 9% |
| Marketing | 2 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 9% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 6 | 26% |
| Series C | 5 | 22% |
| Series D | 3 | 13% |
| Series A | 2 | 9% |
| Series E | 2 | 9% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 26% |
| Germany | 3 | 13% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Avoca | Avoca creates a client communication platform that enables business owners to concentrate on their core skills. | $125M | Series B | Apr 27, 2026 |  |
| Serval | Serval is an AI-native IT service management (ITSM) platform designed to give modern teams superpowers. | $47M | Series A | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| Framer | Framer is a tool to design interactive high-fidelity prototypes for iOS, Android, desktop, or the web. It enables users to turn static mockups into interactive prototypes and to experiment quickly with dynamic, native-feeling animations and interactions.Framer integrates with design tools, exports smoothly to mobile devices, and is powered bythe language of the modern web, Javascript. The company was founded by Jorn Dijk and Koen Bok. | $100M | Series D | Aug 27, 2025 |  |
| Talon.One | Talon.One enables businesses to manage promotions, loyalty programs, and incentive campaigns through a unified system. The platform uses an API-driven approach to evaluate customer data in real time and determine applicable rewards such as discounts, coupons, loyalty points, or bundled offers. It allows teams to configure rule-based logic thatdefines when and how incentives are triggered across digital and in-store channels.The system includes tools for campaign creation, budget control, and promotion validation, supporting use cases like referrals, gamified rewards, and tiered loyalty structures. It integrates with existing commerce, customer data, and payment systems to automate execution and maintain consistency across touchpoints. Additionally, it incorporates predictive capabilities that analyze customer behavior and support testing of different incentive strategies. | $134.6M |  | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Flock Safety | Flock Safety develops security solutions using automated license plate recognition cameras. Its main product is its ALPR cameras, which are used by neighborhoods, law enforcement agencies, and businesses to capture and analyze vehicle license plates. These cameras help in solving and preventing crimes by providing actionable data. Thecompany's platform combines the power of communities at scale, including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies – to shape a safer future together. Their full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by communities to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone. |  | Series F | Mar 13, 2025 |  |
| Flock Safety | Flock Safety develops security solutions using automated license plate recognition cameras. Its main product is its ALPR cameras, which are used by neighborhoods, law enforcement agencies, and businesses to capture and analyze vehicle license plates. These cameras help in solving and preventing crimes by providing actionable data. Thecompany's platform combines the power of communities at scale, including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies – to shape a safer future together. Their full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by communities to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone. | $275M | Series H | Mar 13, 2025 |  |
| Rewst | Rewst is a company currently operating in stealth mode. | $45M | Series C | Aug 07, 2024 |  |
| Augment Code | Augment Code builds AI agents that understand entire codebases to generate, review, and manage software. It offers deep contextual code comprehension, IDE and CLI integration, and automated task coordination. Developers can also leverage semantic code analysis, remote agents, and personalized prompt suggestions to streamline complex projects. | $227M | Series B | Apr 24, 2024 |  |
| Rewst | Rewst is a company currently operating in stealth mode. | $31M | Series B | Dec 22, 2023 |  |
| Framer | Framer is a tool to design interactive high-fidelity prototypes for iOS, Android, desktop, or the web. It enables users to turn static mockups into interactive prototypes and to experiment quickly with dynamic, native-feeling animations and interactions.Framer integrates with design tools, exports smoothly to mobile devices, and is powered bythe language of the modern web, Javascript. The company was founded by Jorn Dijk and Koen Bok. | $28M | Series C | Jul 27, 2023 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Matrix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Greenoaks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greenoaks-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Meritech Capital Partners

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Meritech Capital provides late-stage venture capital to technology companies. It specializes in the fields of finance, venture capital, and late-stage investment management.

5 contacts available at Meritech Capital Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Clayton | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-clayton |
| Alex Kurland | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-kurland |
| Arsham Memarzadeh | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arsham-memarzadeh |
| Ashley Paston | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashley-paston |
| Craig Sherman | General Partner/Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-sherman |

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## FAQ

### What does Alex Clayton invest in?

Alex Clayton invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alex Clayton last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alex Clayton closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 23 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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