Altimeter
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Altimeter is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and FinTech. Altimeter provides research and advisory for companies challenged by business disruptions, enabling them to pursue new opportunities and business models. We share our independent research on business disruptions via research reports, webinars, speeches, and more. We also offer advisory services to business leaders who wish to explore the specificimplications of these disruptions within their organizations.The Altimeter DifferenceResearch-Based: Our methodologies and best practice recommendations are based on both quantitative and qualitative research.Holistic Approach: Our strategy examines both engagement with external audiences, and internal process and technology development required to ensure success.Experience: Our analysts each have years of experience in deployment on the buyer side or as analysts at other firms.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries Altimeter invests in
Stages Altimeter invests in
Countries Altimeter invests in
Contacts
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Aubrey Littleton
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Charlene Li
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Omar Akhtar
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Susan Etlinger
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Brian Solis
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (38%)
- FinTech 2 (25%)
- Analytics 2 (25%)
- Web3 1 (13%)
- Finance 1 (13%)
Stage
- Series B 2 (25%)
- Series E 2 (25%)
- Series A 1 (13%)
- Series C 1 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 6 (75%)
- Brazil 1 (13%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Aubrey Littleton
Researcher
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Researcher | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Charlene Li
Founder
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Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Omar Akhtar
Managing Editor
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Managing Editor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Susan Etlinger
Analyst
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Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Brian Solis
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Baseten
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Baseten provides a platform for training, deploying, and serving artificial intelligence models in production environments. It supports open-source, fine-tuned, and custom models, converting them into API endpoints with capabilities such as autoscaling, observability, and optimized model serving. The platform manages infrastructure componentsincluding containerization, GPU scheduling across multiple cloud providers, and performance optimizations to support large-scale inference workloads. Baseten also offers preconfigured model APIs and deployment options that can run either on its managed cloud service or within a customer's own environment. Its tools are designed to help developers build, manage, and scale AI applications while maintaining flexibility in how models are hosted and executed. | $300M / Series E / Jan 20, 2026 | |
Vulcan Elements
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VULCAN ELEMENTS is changing the way to electrify aerospace, defense, and auto with decarbonization. | $65M / Series A / Aug 11, 2025 | |
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Vulcan Elements
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VULCAN ELEMENTS is changing the way to electrify aerospace, defense, and auto with decarbonization. | $65M / Series A / Aug 11, 2025 | |
MotherDuck
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In stealth mode: data infrastructure and analytics. | $52.5M / Series B / Sep 20, 2023 | |
Loft
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Loft is a transactional marketplace for residential real estate that helps manage the home buying and selling process.Founded by repeat entrepreneurs in 2018, Loft is Brazil’s first transactional marketplace for residential real estate, facilitating the purchase and sale of properties on behalf of individuals, brokers, and two publicly listedREITs managed by the company. By leveraging proprietary transaction data and an end-to-end digital workflow, Loft is bringing the Brazilian homebuying experience into the e-commerce age while integrating a multitude of adjacent service offerings.Loft was founded in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil. | $100M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 08, 2023 | |
Prisma
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At Prisma we are building the data layer for modern applications:By auto-generating a flexible, fast and scalable GraphQL data access layer, Prisma fulfills the promise of GraphQL as a universal query language, enabling you to access all of your databases in a single GraphQL query.Prisma was founded in 2016 and has offices in Berlin and SanFrancisco. | $40M / Series B / May 03, 2022 | |
Ramp
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Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $200M / Series C / Mar 21, 2022 | |
Chainalysis
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Chainalysis designs and develops anti-money laundering software for Bitcoin businesses. Its products include REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that identifies offenders, visualizes data, and shares results with people and organizations, and API, a transaction-based risk scoring solution that contains the source and destination of funds tomeasure risk.Chainalysis also offers activity monitoring reports and diligence tools, which allow analysts to estimate criminal revenues and emerging threats. It offers activity monitoring reports, due diligence tools, and cyber threats from the deep web for financial institutions, real-time application programming interface (API), web-based investigation software for due diligence, and verification of customers for bitcoin business, and web-based investigation tools to identify cyber-criminals, identification of bitcoin extortion payments made by victims to criminals, and attribution for cyber threat intelligence industries. | $100M / Series E / Jun 24, 2021 |
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FAQ
What does Altimeter invest in?
Altimeter invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Analytics startups, most often at Series B and Series E stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Altimeter?
The team at Altimeter includes Aubrey Littleton (Researcher), Charlene Li (Founder) and Omar Akhtar (Managing Editor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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