# Laura Spiekerman

> Laura Spiekerman is a seed investor at Alloy backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Alloy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alloy-2)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-spiekerman-7306065/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/lauraspiekerman
- Website: https://x.com/lauraspiekerman
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laura.spiekerman

Laura Spiekerman is a seed investor at Alloy in San Francisco focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Laura Spiekerman is the Co-Founder of Alloy.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4.1M–$19M |
| Series A | $15M–$24M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 4 | 67% |
| FinTech | 2 | 33% |
| Finance | 2 | 33% |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Insurance | 1 | 17% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Series A | 2 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 33% |
| Canada | 1 | 17% |
| Tanzania | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Keep | Keep offers an all-in-one corporate credit card and chequing account tailored for small and medium-sized businesses. The platform simplifies financial management by integrating spending, banking, and sales operations into a single system. Keep provides cashback rewards and reduced wire transfer fees, enhancing the financial efficiency of its users.This service aims to streamline the financial processes that SMBs encounter, making it easier for them to manage their cash flow and expenses. By focusing on the unique needs of these businesses, Keep helps improve their overall financial operations. | $23.7M | Series A | May 20, 2025 |  |
| Meanwhile | Meanwhile is a licensed and regulated life insurance business. | $19M | Seed | Jun 06, 2023 |  |
| Vergo | Vergo automates manual accounting & finance processes for construction businesses. | $4.1M | Seed | Jun 22, 2022 |  |
| Vergo | Vergo automates manual accounting & finance processes for construction businesses. | $4.1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 22, 2022 |  |
| LaunchNotes | LaunchNotes is the personalized, automated, and secure way to connect their teams and users to their product development lifecycle. The company enables entire organizations to move at the same speed as their dev teams, no matter how fast those teams may be shipping software. It provides the right updates to the right people at the right time sothat no one, internally or externally, is ever surprised by product changes. | $15M | Series A | May 20, 2022 |  |
| Nala | Nala is a FinTech company developing a mobile payments application to simplify money transfers and transactions without data connectivity. Their services include financial inclusion, digital financial services, mobile money, and fintech. | $10M | Seed | Jan 27, 2022 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CRV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crvvc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Forum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forumventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nine Four Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nine-four-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [6th Man Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6th-man-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amplo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplo) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atlassian Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlassian-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Alloy

VC Fund · New York, United States

Alloy is a developer of an identity verification platform used to check frauds and make identity management effective and simple for banks and financial institutions. Alloy is an API for regulated companies to collect and manage customer data from many different sources. It also engages in helping financial institutions and FinTech companies solveidentity and compliance problems. The service allows banks and FinTechs to make better risk and identify decisions, using a single API and dashboard to manage AML, fraud, KYC, and more.The company also offers an API to help financial services companies access various aggregated identity databases and a dashboard through which to organize and analyze customer onboarding data. It also helps to improve customer conversion through the compliance funnel, reduce risk and fraud, and speed up previously manual back-office processes.Alloy was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

5 contacts available at Alloy.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Laura Spiekerman | Cofounder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laura-spiekerman |
| Tommy Nicholas | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-edward-nicholas |
| Charles Hearn | Cofounder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-hearn |
| Edwina Johnson | Chief Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edwina-johnson |
| Jay Levy | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jay-levy |

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## FAQ

### What does Laura Spiekerman invest in?

Laura Spiekerman invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 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 Laura Spiekerman's check size?

Laura Spiekerman typically joins rounds of $4.1M–$19M at Seed and $15M–$24M 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 Laura Spiekerman participates in.

### When did Laura Spiekerman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Laura Spiekerman closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 6 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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