Alsop Louie Partners
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Alsop Louie Partners is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Alsop Louie Partners focuses on identifying the most promising entrepreneurs and working with information technology companies specializing in traditional VC parlance and early-stage technology investments. The firm prefers to follow the instincts and experience of the entrepreneurs and invest in all kinds of technology-based ventures. It believesthat it is not the job of venture investors to fund companies that require large amounts of capital, more than $20M, to create a stable, validated business operation.
- Total investments:
- 111
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
- Last fund:
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Industries Alsop Louie Partners invests in
Stages Alsop Louie Partners invests in
Countries Alsop Louie Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 12 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$8M
- Series A
- $2M–$12M
- Series B
- $4.5M–$22M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 21 (19%)
- Information Technology 11 (10%)
- Apps 6 (5%)
- Mobile 6 (5%)
- Security 6 (5%)
Stage
- Series A 37 (33%)
- Series B 18 (16%)
- Seed 16 (14%)
- Funding Round 9 (8%)
- Series C 7 (6%)
Country
- United States 64 (58%)
- United Kingdom 2 (2%)
- Ireland 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jason Preston
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Jim Ward
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Mark G Fields
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
William Crowell
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Gilman Louie
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 20 | Find email | |
| See all 12 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ursa Major Technologies develops innovative propulsion solutions for the emerging microsatellite and nanosatellite launch market. Its advanced manufacturing optimizes unique part creation. These engines are greater than 80% additively manufactured by mass using cutting-edge, internally-developed materials and processes.The company was founded in2015 and is based in Berthoud, Colorado. | $100M / Series E / Nov 18, 2025 | ||
| RunSafe Security is on a mission to immunize software from cyber attacks and disrupt hacker economics without developer friction. RunSafe's patented technology, Alkemist, inoculates customers' systems from an entire class of cyber attacks by stopping the infection at its source. Our customers integrate our product across build and deploytoolchains to protect open source, in-house code, and 3rd party binaries. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with an office in Huntsville, Alabama, RunSafe Security's customers span the critical infrastructure, IIoT, automotive, medical, develops, and national security industries. | $12M / Series B / Sep 17, 2024 | ||
| Aerospike is an information technology company that specializes in real-time NoSQL data solutions for any scale. Aerospike enterprises overcome seemingly impossible data bottlenecks to compete and win with a fraction of the infrastructure complexity and cost of legacy NoSQL databases. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Mountain View,California. | $109M / Private Equity / Apr 04, 2024 | ||
| Tern provides venture capital to exciting, high growth IoT innovators in Europe. They provide more than just funding. They provide support and create a genuinely collaborative environment for talented, well-motivated teams. They empower business owners to fulfil their potential for fast growth, market leadership and strong exit multiples. | $4M / Post-IPO Equity / Dec 27, 2023 | ||
| ZeroFox provides external cybersecurity solutions to help organizations identify, manage, and mitigate social media-based cyber threats. Its solutions protect organizations from the risks introduced by social networking and digital communication platforms. In an age of constant connectivity and social sharing, users have become the primary targetfor the adversary. By continuously monitoring social platforms for cyber attacks, information loss, social engineering campaigns, account compromise, and fraud, ZeroFox protects organizations from the next generation of digital threats. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and proven security practices, ZeroFox provides both targeted protection and global insights into the world of social media threats. | $170M / Post-IPO Equity / Aug 04, 2022 | ||
| DigiLens is an innovator in holographic waveguide display technology for extended reality (XR).DigiLens has developed a patented optical platform and photopolymer technology that delivers best-in-class solutions using a unique, low-cost contact-copy manufacturing process. DigiLens enables OEM partners to design and build XR-enabled devices for theglobal automobile, enterprise, consumer, avionics, and military industries. | $50M / Series D / Apr 07, 2022 | ||
| Ion Storage Systems is focused on developing the most energy dense, safest batteries that can be deployed in any environment. Breakthroughs in solid state battery technology have led to a battery that meets the mission critical needs for the defense and aerospace industries; and safer more efficient for consumer electronics and electric vehicles. | $30M / Series A / Jan 09, 2022 | ||
| Ursa Major Technologies develops innovative propulsion solutions for the emerging microsatellite and nanosatellite launch market. Its advanced manufacturing optimizes unique part creation. These engines are greater than 80% additively manufactured by mass using cutting-edge, internally-developed materials and processes.The company was founded in2015 and is based in Berthoud, Colorado. | $85M / Series C / Dec 07, 2021 | ||
| Device Authority provides simple, innovative solutions to address the challenges of securing the Internet of Things (IoT). We help our customers simplify the process of establishing a robust, end-to-end security architecture within the IoT and deliver efficiencies at scale through security automation.IoT brings new security challengesintroduced by the scale and pace of adoption, as well as the physical consequences of compromised security. These challenges cannot be effectively addressed by traditional Information Technology (IT) security solutions. The Device Authority IoT security platform is purpose-built to address these challenges through automated device provisioning, credential management, secure updates and policy-driven data encryption.The IoT promises countless efficiencies, increased competitiveness, improved customer service and even brand new market opportunities. However, deploying strong security is hard and always has been. Deploying strong IoT security is even harder. According to Gartner, by 2020, around 25% of all identified security breaches will involve IoT. To address this, Device Authority introduces a new paradigm of IoT Security Automation that accelerates and simplifies the deployment of strong IoT security.Advanced, policy driven security automation is critical for industrial, healthcare, transportation and other large scale security sensitive IoT environments. Our patented dynamic key technology provides the essential device-based trust anchor for IoT devices, enabling policy-driven provisioning, access control and data protection for mission-critical IoT applications and services.The dedicated IoT Security entity was launched in September 2014 when the Cryptosoft technology was spun out with backing from the current investors. In April 2016 Cryptosoft acquired DeviceAuthority Inc, and subsequently the changed its name to Device Authority Ltd, headquartered in the UK and with a technical development center based in Fremont, CA. | $2.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 02, 2021 | ||
| DigiLens is an innovator in holographic waveguide display technology for extended reality (XR).DigiLens has developed a patented optical platform and photopolymer technology that delivers best-in-class solutions using a unique, low-cost contact-copy manufacturing process. DigiLens enables OEM partners to design and build XR-enabled devices for theglobal automobile, enterprise, consumer, avionics, and military industries. | Series D / Nov 04, 2021 | ||
| See all 111 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Alsop Louie Partners invest in?
Alsop Louie Partners invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Apps startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 111 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 Alsop Louie Partners's check size?
Alsop Louie Partners typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$8M at Seed, $2M–$12M at Series A and $4.5M–$22M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alsop Louie Partners participates in.
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Who are the partners at Alsop Louie Partners?
The team at Alsop Louie Partners includes Jason Preston (Venture Partner), Jim Ward (Venture Partner) and Mark G Fields (Partner), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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