# Alex MacCaw

> Alex MacCaw is a seed investor at Clearbit (San Francisco) backing Software and SaaS. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Clearbit](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clearbit)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-maccaw-ab592978/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/maccaw

Alex MacCaw is a seed investor at Clearbit in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Mr. Alex MacCaw Co-Founded and served as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Clearbit. He is also the Founder of Sourcing.io. He also serves as Advisor at Evergrow. He also serves as an executive at Earl Grey Capital.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$12M |
| Series A | $11M–$34M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 38% |
| SaaS | 5 | 31% |
| Analytics | 4 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 25% |
| Marketing | 2 | 13% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 56% |
| Series A | 4 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 13% |
| Angel | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 75% |
| Germany | 2 | 13% |
| Norway | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pogo | Pogo enables people to earn money and save on shopping, finances, and more by unlocking the power of their data. Pogo allows users to take control of their data and how they monetize it, as well as to be compensated when their data is used for market research and personalized advertising. It pushes recommendations based on the data users choose tolink with the app, which users can act on in a few clicks. | $12.3M | Seed | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Canvas | Canvas is a collaborative data exploration tool that helps modern business teams make decisions without SQL. | $2M | Angel | Jan 28, 2022 |  |
| Fathom | An audiovisual recording service that integrates with both Zoom and Google Calendar. | $4.7M | Seed | Jan 24, 2022 |  |
| Racket | Let's make a racket. | $3M | Seed | Nov 16, 2021 |  |
| Writer | Writer is the AI writing assistant for the world’s smartest brands. We help brand owners and content leaders scale their messaging, communication style, and must-have language, no matter who’s writing. Top brands like Twitter, Intuit, and McKesson have standardized their content creation on Writer. | $21M | Series A | Nov 15, 2021 |  |
| Almanac | Almanac is the most powerful platform for async collaboration.A modern doc editor with version control to manage changes across docs and automated workflows for reviews, revisions, and suggestions.Built to give innovative companies, distributed teams, and the world's most ambitious people power, organization, and transparency—so they cancan collaborate with focus and speed.Join us in a world with less meetings and messages! | $34M | Series A | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| MagicLabs | Get peace of mind with secure, extensible passwordless authentication that’s built to scale. All with a few lines of code. | $27M | Series A | Jul 22, 2021 |  |
| Maven Pet | Maven is a SaaS pet tech startup that provides a personal vet to track the pet’s safety and health 24/7.It focuses on using technology to improve the quality of life for pets, as well as offering pet owners peace of mind and a way to keep track of their pet's safety, health, and well-being on a continual basis through their own personalveterinarian.It was started by the founders of Findster Technologies in 2021 and is based in Porto, Portugal. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2021 |  |
| Whereby | Whereby isn’t your standard video meetings tool. Created with our Scandinavian simplicity at its heart, we're ahead of the curve. Whereby is the go-to meetings tool for creative businesses and agencies worldwide, for its ease of use, beautiful design, and no download requirement. With unlimited call duration, customizable meeting rooms, andintegrations with collaborative tools like Miro whiteboards, Whereby is changing the video meetings game. | $10.6M | Series A | Mar 17, 2021 |  |
| Metaplane | Metaplane offers data observability products to enable organizations to trust their data. Data teams from companies like Bose, Sotheby's, Hightouch, GoFundMe, and Ramp use its observability platform to save engineering time and increase trust in data by understanding when things break, what went wrong, and how to fix it — before an executivemessages them.They do this by automatically monitoring modern data stacks from warehouses to BI dashboards, identifying normal behavior (e.g. lineage, volumes, distributions, freshness), then alerting the right people when things go wrong.The company is founded by MIT + HubSpot alums and backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Flybridge, and the founders of Okta, HubSpot, Lookout, Drift, and Clearbit. |  | Seed | Jan 30, 2021 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Active Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Earl Grey Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earl-grey-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Flybridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flybridge-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GTMfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gtmfund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [s16vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s16vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Clearbit

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Clearbit develops business intelligence to help companies find more information of customers in order to increase sales and reduce fraud. Alex McCaw, Harlow Ward, and Rob Holland founded Clearbit in 2014, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

5 contacts available at Clearbit.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex MacCaw | Hacker and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-maccaw-66a2 |
| Derek Schlicker | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/derek-schlicker |
| Harlow Ward | Head of Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harlow-ward-1c34 |
| Janet Choi | Head of Content | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/janet-choi |
| Matt Sornson | CMO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-sornson |

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## FAQ

### What does Alex MacCaw invest in?

Alex MacCaw invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Alex MacCaw's check size?

Alex MacCaw typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$12M at Seed and $11M–$34M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alex MacCaw participates in.

### When did Alex MacCaw last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alex MacCaw closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 16 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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