# Alloy Ventures

> Alloy Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software and Biotechnology. See 132 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 132
- Last investment: Jun 2018
- Lead investor: 17%
- Fund size: $375M
- Last fund: Jan 2008
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alloy-ventures/about/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Alloy_Ventures
- Website: http://www.alloyventures.com

Alloy Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in the areas of life sciences, information technology, and cleantech.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $8M–$25M |
| Series C | $4.5M–$36M |
| Series D | $5.3M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 20 | 15% |
| Biotechnology | 18 | 14% |
| Health Care | 17 | 13% |
| Manufacturing | 12 | 9% |
| Medical | 8 | 6% |

95 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 24 | 18% |
| Series B | 21 | 16% |
| Series D | 19 | 14% |
| Series A | 16 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 16 | 12% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 64 | 48% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Craig Taylor | Co-Founder & General Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-taylor |
| Dave Pidwell | Venture Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-pidwell |
| John Shoch | Co-Founder & General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-shoch |
| Leighton Read | Venture Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leighton-read |
| Leighton Read | Venture Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leighton-read-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Agari | Agari is the Trusted Email Identity Company™, protecting brands and people from devastating phishing and socially-engineered attacks. Using applied data science and a diverse set of signals, Agari protects the workforce from inbound business email compromise, supply chain fraud, spear phishing, and account takeover-based attacks, reducing businessrisk and restoring trust to the inbox. Agari also prevents spoofing of outbound email from the enterprise to customers, increasing deliverability and preserving brand integrity. | $40M | Series E | Jun 21, 2018 |  |
| AEGEA Medical | AEGEA Medical is pioneering the application of its Adaptive Vapor Ablation technology to deliver therapies that provide high quality patient outcomes to a wider range of patients. AEGEA’s FDA approved water vapor technology enables the delivery of a safe and effective endometrial ablation for the treatment of menorrhagia in a simple, office-basedprocedure that takes only minutes. With a vision to expand safe and effective treatment options to more patients, and provide physicians with the confidence and convenience necessary to perform office-based procedures, AEGEA is inspiring new approaches to women’s healthcare. Founded in 2008, AEGEA Medical is located in in Menlo Park, California. | $40M | Series D | Jan 02, 2018 |  |
| Agari | Agari is the Trusted Email Identity Company™, protecting brands and people from devastating phishing and socially-engineered attacks. Using applied data science and a diverse set of signals, Agari protects the workforce from inbound business email compromise, supply chain fraud, spear phishing, and account takeover-based attacks, reducing businessrisk and restoring trust to the inbox. Agari also prevents spoofing of outbound email from the enterprise to customers, increasing deliverability and preserving brand integrity. | $22M | Series D | May 24, 2016 |  |
| AEGEA Medical | AEGEA Medical is pioneering the application of its Adaptive Vapor Ablation technology to deliver therapies that provide high quality patient outcomes to a wider range of patients. AEGEA’s FDA approved water vapor technology enables the delivery of a safe and effective endometrial ablation for the treatment of menorrhagia in a simple, office-basedprocedure that takes only minutes. With a vision to expand safe and effective treatment options to more patients, and provide physicians with the confidence and convenience necessary to perform office-based procedures, AEGEA is inspiring new approaches to women’s healthcare. Founded in 2008, AEGEA Medical is located in in Menlo Park, California. | $36M | Series C | May 04, 2015 |  |
| Restoration Robotics | Restoration Robotics is a privately held medical device company, is dedicated to revolutionizing the field of hair transplantation by developing and commercializing a state-of-the-art image-guided system (ARTAS™ System) that enables follicular unit extraction. | $45M | Series C | Nov 10, 2014 |  |
| Agari | Agari is the Trusted Email Identity Company™, protecting brands and people from devastating phishing and socially-engineered attacks. Using applied data science and a diverse set of signals, Agari protects the workforce from inbound business email compromise, supply chain fraud, spear phishing, and account takeover-based attacks, reducing businessrisk and restoring trust to the inbox. Agari also prevents spoofing of outbound email from the enterprise to customers, increasing deliverability and preserving brand integrity. | $15M | Series C | Sep 23, 2014 |  |
| Gigaom | Gigaom is a blog-related media company that offers news, analysis, and opinions on startups, emerging technologies, and other technology related topics. Its news, research, and events humanize technology and provide deep insight on disruptive companies, people, and trends.Gigaom owns more than 6.5 monthly unique readers, who turn to Gigaom tobetter understand major technology disruptions and the new business opportunities created by Gigaom. Its information is handled and delivered by over 200 independent analysts. This network of over 200 independent analysts provides new content that bridges the gap between breaking news and long-range research.Gigaom’s research provides timely, in-depth analysis of emerging technologies for individual and corporate subscribers. Each event of the company combines a narrow, deep focus with strong editorial content and face time with technology disruptors to give attendees the tools they need to capitalize on emerging trends.Gigaom was founded in 2006 by Om Malik and is based in San Francisco, California. |  | Series F | Feb 20, 2014 |  |
| Grand Junction | Rapidly approaching 100 million deliveries managed to-date, Grand Junction is the only provider of same-day delivery in every market in the US and Canada. Grand Junction allows leading retailers, 3PLs, distributors, and start-ups to offer local delivery through its technology platform and network of 700 local carriers. The comprehensive technologyplatform, which provides everything needed to manage delivery from dashboards and GPS alerts to invoice audit and payment and driver training, saves users millions by reducing delivery cost, improving the customer experience, and empowering them with real-time visibility. Unlike its competitors, Grand Junction allows shippers to customize the services they offer, choosing from on-demand, same-day AM/PM, scheduled, and two-person delivery.For more information about Grand Junction, please visit www.grandjunctioninc.com.To get smarter on local delivery, please visit www.grandjunctioninc.com/blog/Follow us on Twitter @grandjunctionLD | $1M |  | Nov 25, 2013 |  |
| Hightail | Hightail is a cloud service that lets users send, receive, digitally sign, and synchronize files. Hightail addresses the problems of creative collaboration and visual project management between teams of creative professionals and their clients and other stakeholders. An innovator in the cloud since before the term was even coined, Hightail (FKAYouSendIt) began as a simple way to send files that were too large for email and have since grown to evolve the cloud into a virtual workspace that enables seamless collaboration on visual projects from concept to completion. | $34M | Series E | Nov 19, 2013 |  |
| Scifiniti | Scifiniti is an early stage company working to create a drop-in replacement for crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells. Rather than casting an ingot of polysilicon and then sawing it into wafers (to be processed into solar cells), Scifiniti's approach skips these steps and creates a wafer directly (although we can't say how) with a highquality crystal structure suitable for solar cells. | $10M | Series B | Jul 01, 2013 |  |

10 of 132 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Alloy Ventures invest in?

Alloy Ventures invests primarily in Software, Biotechnology and Health Care startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 132 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 Alloy Ventures's check size?

Alloy Ventures typically joins rounds of $8M–$25M at Series B, $4.5M–$36M at Series C and $5.3M–$50M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alloy Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Alloy Ventures?

Public channels for Alloy Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Alloy Ventures?

The team at Alloy Ventures includes Craig Taylor (Co-Founder & General Partner), Dave Pidwell (Venture Partner) and John Shoch (Co-Founder & General Partner), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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