# Meritech Capital Partners

> Meritech Capital Partners is a VC fund backing Software. See 276 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 276
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 37%
- Fund size: $800M
- Last fund: Jun 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/meritech-capital-partners/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/MeritechCapital
- Website: http://www.meritechcapital.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MeritechCapital

Meritech Capital Partners is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Meritech Capital provides late-stage venture capital to technology companies. It specializes in the fields of finance, venture capital, and late-stage investment management.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series C | $22M–$260M |
| Series D | $20M–$200M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 74 | 27% |
| Enterprise Software | 33 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 30 | 11% |
| SaaS | 26 | 9% |
| Internet | 17 | 6% |

191 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series D | 56 | 20% |
| Series C | 55 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 33 | 12% |
| Series E | 30 | 11% |
| Series B | 28 | 10% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 143 | 52% |
| Germany | 6 | 2% |
| France | 2 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 0% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Clayton | General Partner | 23 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-clayton |
| Alex Kurland | General Partner | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-kurland |
| Arsham Memarzadeh | General Partner | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arsham-memarzadeh |
| Ashley Paston | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashley-paston |
| Craig Sherman | General Partner/Managing Director | 36 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-sherman |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lumilens | Lumilens creates photonics products designed for high-performance computing. | $700M | Series C | Aug 06, 2026 |  |
| Inforcer | Inforcer develops a cloud-based platform that helps managed service providers simplify the administration and security of Microsoft 365 environments. Its solution enables centralized policy management, automated configuration, compliance monitoring, tenant governance, and security enforcement across multiple customer organizations. The platformalso supports Microsoft Copilot readiness and AI governance, helping MSPs strengthen security, reduce manual effort, and deliver consistent IT management at scale. | $50M | Series C | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| Mind Robotics | Mind Robotics is an industrial AI and robotics venture. | $400M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 13, 2026 |  |
| True Anomaly | True Anomaly develops space security technologies, including spacecraft, software platforms, and mission systems for orbital operations. The company builds satellites and autonomous systems that support monitoring, maneuvering, and coordination in space environments. Its offerings include simulation tools and mission planning software that helpoperators model scenarios and manage on-orbit activities. The organization also provides hardware and integrated systems that enable responsive deployment and control of space assets. Its work focuses on supporting government and commercial missions that require situational awareness and operational capabilities beyond Earth. | $600M | Series D | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| Avoca | Avoca creates a client communication platform that enables business owners to concentrate on their core skills. | $125M | Series B | Apr 27, 2026 |  |
| depthfirst | Depthfirst is an applied AI lab focused on cybersecurity. We've built the General Security Intelligence layer that helps security teams detect, triage, and remediate critical vulnerabilities across their software and infrastructure. | $80M | Series B | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| WorkOS | WorkOS provides APIs to make applications enterprise-ready, with pre-built features and integrations required by IT admins. With WorkOS, users can start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. WorkOS was founded in 2019 by Michael Grinich and is based in San Francisco, California, United States. | $100M | Series C | Mar 02, 2026 |  |
| OpenEvidence | OpenEvidence provides an artificial intelligence medical information platform that organizes and synthesizes peer-reviewed clinical research to help physicians access evidence-based insights for clinical decision support. Its products include an AI-powered medical search engine that quickly retrieves and cites relevant literature from majorjournals and tools like DeepConsult that generate comprehensive research syntheses for complex clinical questions. The platform also integrates features that support clinical documentation and evidence retrieval during patient encounters, aiming to streamline how healthcare professionals find and apply clinical evidence. OpenEvidence delivers responses grounded in sourced medical research and supports workflows that assist clinicians in evaluating and interpreting medical knowledge. | $250M | Series D | Jan 21, 2026 |  |
| Pennylane | Pennylane is a developer of a full-stack financial management platform used to deal with financial data. Centralizing all the data that was fragmented in the past, this platform enables business managers to get a real-time view of their financial data and make the right decisions. The company enables business leaders to access their complete, andup-to-date financial data at any time. | $203.9M | Series E | Jan 20, 2026 |  |
| Serval | Serval is an AI-native IT service management (ITSM) platform designed to give modern teams superpowers. | $75M | Series B | Dec 11, 2025 |  |

10 of 276 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 49 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 25 deals together
- [Redpoint](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redpoint-ventures) — VC Fund, 24 deals together
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 23 deals together
- [Sapphire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sapphire-ventures) — VC Fund, 21 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 18 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Meritech Capital Partners invest in?

Meritech Capital Partners invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Series D and Series C stage. Most of the 276 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 Meritech Capital Partners's check size?

Meritech Capital Partners typically joins rounds of $22M–$260M at Series C and $20M–$200M 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 Meritech Capital Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Meritech Capital Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Meritech Capital Partners?

The team at Meritech Capital Partners includes Alex Clayton (General Partner), Alex Kurland (General Partner) and Arsham Memarzadeh (General Partner), among 11 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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