# Paul Ahlstrom

> Paul Ahlstrom is a seed investor at Alta Ventures Mexico backing Software and Human Resources. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Alta Ventures Mexico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alta-ventures-mexico)
- Location: Lehi, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Mar 2018
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbahlstrom
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/paulahlstrom

Paul Ahlstrom is a seed investor at Alta Ventures Mexico in Lehi focused on Software and Human Resources. Mr. Ahlstrom is a Co-Founder and serves as a Managing Director at Alta Ventures Mexico. Mr. Ahlstrom co-founded the firm in 2010. He was employed at vSpring Capital. Previously, Mr. Ahlstrom served as a Managing Director at the vSpring. Prior to founding vSpring Capital, he founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer at Knowlix Corporation.He also invested in Altiris. Mr. Ahlstrom has led several successful early stage investments including Rhomobile, Aeroprise, 7degrees and FamilyLink. He serves as a Director of BMC Mobility for IT Service Management, New Mexico Community Capital, KQ Corporation, Aeroprise, GlobalSim, Cogito, MyFamily.com and DriveSafety. Mr. Ahlstrom also serves as a Member of Advisory Board of UTFC, BYU's e-business center and Corda Technologies. He serves as a Member of the Utah Angels and has participated in several regional angel investments. He serves as a Director and Trustee at the Utah Information Technology Association and an Advisor at the Kevin Rollins Center for E-Business at Brigham Young University. Mr. Ahlstrom serves on the Technical Advisory Board at Westminster College's business school and Dougway Proving Ground's Test and Evaluation Initiative. He served as a Director of Public Engines, Senforce Technologies, Ancestry.com and S5 Wireless. He serves on the Executive Committee of the University of Utah’s Technology Commercialization Advisory Board. Mr. Ahlstrom is listed as a Founding Member of the BYU Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. He served as a Director of The American Academy. He served as a Trustee for the Utah Technology Council and other community boards and has also served multiple years as a Member of Motorola Corporation’s Visionary Research Board. Mr. Ahlstrom is a regular speaker and supporter of the Rocky Mountain, New Mexico and Utah's entrepreneurial communities. He holds an Honorary Degree from the Netanya Academic College in Israel for his work of promoting peace. Mr. Ahlstrom received a B.A. in Communications from the Brigham Young University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 21% |
| Human Resources | 3 | 21% |
| Web Hosting | 2 | 14% |
| SaaS | 1 | 7% |
| Video | 1 | 7% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 36% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 14% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 14% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sendmi | For foreign national employees working in the US, the Sendmi mobile app is a global flex pay solution that integrates with their employers payroll system, allowing the employee to send money back to their home country, top up phones, and pay international bills. | $1.8M | Angel | Mar 01, 2018 |  |
| Converus | Converus provides scientifically validated credibility assessment technologies that help protect countries, corporations, and communities from corruption, crime, and threats. Today, Converus offers 3 main products.It has developed a technology called EyeDetect that detects deception by scanning the human eye in a non-invasive manner. Converusalso offers a product called IdentityDetect, a quick and simple web-based test or mobile app that can quickly verify a person’s identity. While it IntegrityDetect is a unique integrity-assessment test designed to replace the traditional integrity test. | $3.9M |  | Jan 01, 2017 |  |
| Mural | Mural is a collaborative intelligence company. The company connects teams to unlock their potential, increasing the innovation capacity of the enterprise. Mural creates a culture of effective collaboration, where everyone is connected, contributing, and empowered to deliver business-driving outcomes. | $500K | Seed | Oct 15, 2015 |  |
| ViDi | ViDi is an action camera brand that says people should be empowered, not excluded. While the mainstay brands make products for the gadget and tech enthusiasts, ViDi recognizes that action cameras should be easier, more affordable, and more available. Now everyone can shoot like a pro without breaking the bank. | $523.3K | Seed | Sep 25, 2015 |  |
| Converus | Converus provides scientifically validated credibility assessment technologies that help protect countries, corporations, and communities from corruption, crime, and threats. Today, Converus offers 3 main products.It has developed a technology called EyeDetect that detects deception by scanning the human eye in a non-invasive manner. Converusalso offers a product called IdentityDetect, a quick and simple web-based test or mobile app that can quickly verify a person’s identity. While it IntegrityDetect is a unique integrity-assessment test designed to replace the traditional integrity test. | $1.4M |  | Nov 10, 2014 |  |
| Screenie | Screenie is the leading online digital interviewing and screening platform. It saves HR and hiring managers precious time, money, and resources through its video interviews. HR managers can view, rate, and share candidate profiles. No longer to schedule interview times, waste time with unqualified candidates, or try to remember standout applicantsfrom among the masses. |  | Convertible Note | Oct 31, 2014 |  |
| VidAngel | Think Wikipedia for family-friendly video filters. VidAngel is powered by a volunteer community of avid fans of family-friendly video. Members of the community tag potentially offensive swearing, sex and violence in movies, TV shows and YouTube videos. These tags allow viewers to filter what they see and hear based on their personal values andcontent preferences. VidAngel is founded by the Harmon brothers, who are well known for creating the award winning YouTube sensation Girl’s Don’t Poop for Poo~Pourri (more than 27 million YouTube views) and co-founding Orabrush and Orapup, another award winning YouTube breakthrough. VidAngel will likely be interesting to Hollywood because it is expanding their market base here in the United States. “Hollywood is always trying to reach more viewers by cutting their films for different audiences,” explains Neal Harmon, CEO of VidAngel. “There is the Studio’s Final Cut for theaters. The Director’s Cut for the artists. The Airline and Broadcast Cut for the FCC. The Middle Eastern cut for Islam. The unrated cut for perverts. And fan cuts like people uploading just the sex scenes from Game of Thrones to YouTube. It seems like there is a cut for everyone. But one major group was missing, a Family Cut for streaming. That is why we created VidAngel.” | $600K | Seed | Jul 22, 2014 |  |
| Ondore | Ondore combines cutting-edge algorithms, natural language processing and Big Data expertise in order to generate insight into previously undiscovered relationships within large sets of data. Your business can take advantage of these newly discovered connections to make better strategic and tactical decisions.Ondore’s expertise in data miningand sentiment analysis forms the backbone of its flagship product Ondore Scout, a powerful social listening and monitoring tool |  | Convertible Note | Apr 11, 2014 |  |
| Space Monkey | Space Monkey is an affordable subscription-based data storage solution that is taking the cloud out of the datacenter, creating a faster and more durable way to store data from any device. Space Monkey combines the benefits of local hardware storage and cloud storage by providing a device that stores one terabyte of online storage. Space Monkeyprovides central access and sharing from anywhere in the world, and from any device including iOS and Android mobile devices, Windows, Mac and Linux clients, as well as any other web browser enabled technology. Founded by entrepreneurs, Clint Gordon-Carroll and Alen Peacock in July 2011, Space Monkey is headquartered in Midvale, UT, a suburb of Salt Lake City. For more information, please visit: www.spacemonkey.com |  |  | Apr 09, 2014 |  |
| Space Monkey | Space Monkey is an affordable subscription-based data storage solution that is taking the cloud out of the datacenter, creating a faster and more durable way to store data from any device. Space Monkey combines the benefits of local hardware storage and cloud storage by providing a device that stores one terabyte of online storage. Space Monkeyprovides central access and sharing from anywhere in the world, and from any device including iOS and Android mobile devices, Windows, Mac and Linux clients, as well as any other web browser enabled technology. Founded by entrepreneurs, Clint Gordon-Carroll and Alen Peacock in July 2011, Space Monkey is headquartered in Midvale, UT, a suburb of Salt Lake City. For more information, please visit: www.spacemonkey.com |  |  | Feb 12, 2014 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Album VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/album) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [EPIC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/epic-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kickstart](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kickstart-seed-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Oakhouse Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oakhousepartners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Album VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peak-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Canopy Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canopy-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Alta Ventures Mexico

VC Fund · Monterrey, Mexico

Alta Ventures Mexico is an early-stage venture capital firm co-founded by Paul Ahlstrom and Rogelio De los Santos in 2010; it is integrated by a trusted professional team with in-country and international investment and operational experience. With presence in Monterrey and Mexico City, Mexico; Lehi, Utah; and Bogota, Colombia, Alta seeks toinvest in Technology, SaaS, Mobile, Consumer, Healthcare, Non-Bank Finance, Clean Energy, Education and Security sectors.It provides funding in seed start-up, early and late venture, and growth equity-stage companies targeting innovative high-growth markets. The firm typically invests between $50,000 and $10 million, with an initial committed amount of $2 to $3 million in companies with enterprise values between $1 to $7 million. Alta's deep entrepreneurial culture and innovation conception expertise, allows it to capture value and accelerate its growth following a disciplined value creation process.In addition to delivering superior returns for investors, Alta is contributing to the establishment of industry best practices thus promoting world class innovation, entrepreneurship, new job creation and the globalization of its portfolio companies.

5 contacts available at Alta Ventures Mexico.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Paul Ahlstrom | Co-Founder & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-ahlstrom |
| Carl Adams | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carl-adams |
| Christian Aguirre | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-aguirre |
| Diego Serebrisky | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diego-serebrisky |
| Irene Woolsey | Office Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/irene-woolsey |

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## FAQ

### What does Paul Ahlstrom invest in?

Paul Ahlstrom invests primarily in Software, Human Resources and Web Hosting startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Paul Ahlstrom last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paul Ahlstrom closed in Mar 2018. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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