# Firsthand Alliance

> Firsthand Alliance is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 52 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 52
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/firsthandvc
- Website: https://www.firsthand.vc/

Firsthand Alliance is an early-stage VC backed by Salesforce mafia. We invest in exceptional founders building the future of software.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 18 | 35% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 21% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 17% |
| Analytics | 7 | 13% |
| SaaS | 4 | 8% |

73 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 38 | 73% |
| Pre-Seed | 10 | 19% |
| Series A | 1 | 2% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 42 | 81% |
| Israel | 2 | 4% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Simon Chan | Managing Partner | 48 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-chan-2 |
| Samuel Yuk Lai Suen | LP | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samuel-yuk-lai-suen |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wizard Perks | The first free AI-powered rewards platform custom-built for corporate employees | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Oct 29, 2024 |  |
| Avarra | Avarra is an enterprise avatar and AI simulation firm. The first application provides realistic 3D AI avatars trained on web-meeting transcripts and best practice playbooks to correctly imitate client sales conversations. | $8M | Seed | Oct 03, 2024 |  |
| Agree.com | Agree.com is the best solution for creating and managing contracts, streamlining negotiations, enhancing compliance, optimizing workflows, and converting more customers — all within one intuitive platform. View edits, track signatures, and get alerted on all upcoming key milestones. Include free, one-click e-signatures with identity verification onevery agreement. Increase deal velocity and drive revenue impact with integrated payments. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Sep 05, 2024 |  |
| Monto | Helping companies get paid from all customers' AP platforms | $9M | Seed | Jul 30, 2024 |  |
| Noded Ai | Noded Ai is preparing yourself for that customer meeting is tough. Noded brings them all together using your notes history and gives you exactly what you needed , when you need it. So you’re always prepared and one step ahead. | $4M | Seed | Jul 22, 2024 |  |
| Zendata | Data powers innovation across industries but also introduces new risks. Organizations struggle to maintain visibility and control as data flows across systems and third parties. Zendata provides AI-driven insights into data usage and exposure, identifies risks in third-party integrations, and aligns data activity with existing policies andagreements. By unifying signals from disparate data sources, Zendata helps organizations unlock value from their data while maintaining security and compliance | $2M | Seed | May 29, 2024 |  |
| TextQL | TextQL is a platform that simplifies the data-to-insight process for organizations. The platform indexes BI tools and semantic layers, documents data in dbt, and uses OpenAI and language models to provide self-serve power analytics. With TextQL, non-technical users can easily and quickly work with data by asking questions in their work context(Slack/Teams/email) and getting automated answers quickly and safely. The platform also leverages NLP and semantic layers, including the dbt Labs semantic layer, to ensure reasonable solutions. TextQL's elegant handoffs to human analysts, when required, dramatically simplify the whole question-to-answer process with AI. | $4.1M | Seed | Jan 24, 2024 |  |
| Infield | Infield is an open-source dependency management that makes dependencies stable and safe. The company was founded by Stephen Pike and Allison Pike in 2022 and is headquartered in Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States. | $3M | Seed | Jan 16, 2024 |  |
| Fullcast.io | Fullcast.io is a computer software company that transforms sales operations into growth operations by providing sales-ops-as-a-service, combining the perfect blend of people, process, and cloud platforms to accelerate sales organization growth.The company partner with sales teams to focus resource allocation at the right time, based on the rightdata to achieve sales goals. Its combined services and platform sets sales leaders up for success by developing the ideal balance of process efficiency with sales effectiveness. With a background in building and running sales operations teams at Salesforce.com, DocuSign, and Microsoft, fullcast.io partners with growing companies to help sales leaders exceed sales plans. | $34M | Seed | Jan 10, 2024 |  |
| Fullcast | Fullcast enables go-to-market teams to generate exceptional results through patented AI and ML-powered solutions. | $34M | Seed | Jan 10, 2024 |  |

10 of 52 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [FirsthandVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firsthandvc) — VC Fund, 64 deals together
- [Firsthand Alliance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firsthand-ventures) — VC Fund, 51 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Correlation Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/correlation-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Firsthand Alliance invest in?

Firsthand Alliance invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 52 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Firsthand Alliance?

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### Who are the partners at Firsthand Alliance?

The team at Firsthand Alliance includes Simon Chan (Managing Partner) and Samuel Yuk Lai Suen (LP). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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