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Alex C.

General Partner at Meritech Capital

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 20 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2026
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Board / Investor
Jul 2026
Lumilens addresses the red hot market for AI data center infrastructure by designing, manufacturing and selling photonic interconnect solutions. We design and use custom robotics + AI in our factories to more efficiently build our products. Lumilens is backed by top-tier venture capital investors including Mayfield and Spark Capital.
Board / Investor
Dec 2025
WorkOS is an API platform that simplifies implementing crucial enterprise features like User Management, Single Sign-On (SSO), Directory Sync (SCIM), Audit Logs, and more. With WorkOS, SaaS products can become enterprise-ready in minutes, instead of months, instantly unlocking multi-million dollar enterprise deals. With a unified platform, modern APIs, and developer-first design, WorkOS is an intuitive solution for adding enterprise-grade functionality to your app. Go up-market and multi-product faster by enabling your engineers to focus on building core product differentiation instead of table stakes, enterprise features.
Board / Investor
Oct 2025
Serval is a unified help desk, access management, and automation platform with a built-in AI agent workforce. Deploy AI agents to automate the most challenging help desk requests, build enterprise-grade workflow automations, and surface actionable insights.
Board / Investor
Oct 2025
Avoca is the AI front office built for service businesses. Avoca answers every call, works every lead, and checks in on every customer—keeping your boards full and your team focused on the work that matters. We are proud to be building for the trades. Trusted by 800+ operators across HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, pest control, automotive and more.
Growth investor
Nov 2024
Talon.One is the most powerful incentives engine, unifying loyalty, personalized promotions and offer management into a single platform. Built for enterprise scale and security, Talon.One helps businesses design and deliver incentives that drive real customer behavior - repeat purchases, higher basket sizes, and long-term loyalty - without defaulting to margin-draining discounts. The world’s most-loved brands including Adidas, Sephora and Carlsberg work with Talon.One to turn their incentives into a reliable growth engine. Founded in 2015, the company has a global reach with teams in Berlin, London, Boston and Singapore, and over 300 clients across North America, Europe and APAC. It was recognized in Gartner’s 2025 Market Guide for Loyalty Program Vendors, and as a major player in IDC’s 2024 MarketScape report for Loyalty Software Providers. Learn more: https://www.talon.one/ Data Privacy & Imprint: https://www.talon.one/legal/imprint
Growth Investor
Apr 2024
Augment is the AI coding platform built for enterprises - powered by a highly secure, production-grade Context Engine developed over 2.5 years in stealth until our public launch in November 2024. Augment semantically indexes your entire codebase, documentation, dependencies, and internal knowledge in real time to enable devs to ship code faster, onboard in days instead of months, and modernize legacy systems with confidence. We are alumni of global-leading AI and cloud companies including Google, Meta, NVIDIA, Snowflake, and Databricks - all on a mission to provide enterprises with context that actually understands your codebase. If, like us, you believe in augmenting and not replacing software developers, join us on our mission to improve software development at scale using AI.
Board / Investor
Nov 2023
Stop doing the work that slows you down. Automate the busywork that buries MSP teams.
Board Member
Jul 2023
The site builder loved by designers.
Investor
Nov 2021
Superblocks is the AWS for internal tooling – a programmable set of building blocks for developers to create mission-critical internal operational software, at a fraction of the time and cost.
Board Observer
Oct 2021
ClickUp is the world’s first Converged AI Workspace, replacing all software and AI with a single place for humans and AI agents to work together. ClickUp eliminates all forms of work sprawl, creates 100% context, and drives unprecedented productivity, collaboration, and alignment. 20+ million users rely on ClickUp for: Project & Task Management Team Communication Scheduling & Time Tracking Brain AI Assistant Docs & Wikis AI Meetings & Calls Sprints, CRM, and ITSM Whiteboards & Dashboards Files & Approvals Founded in 2017 and based in San Diego, ClickUp is trusted by 3 million of the worlds most innovative teams and is relentlessly focused on delivering its mission to maximize human productivity. ⬇️ Click below to create your free workspace today.
Board Observer
Dec 2020
Founded in 2015 and built in Europe, Personio is the Intelligent HR Platform championing every side of HRs evolution. As work becomes more complex and HRs role more strategic, most technology still treats HR as one-dimensional. We see it differently. Trusted by over 16,000 customers managing more than 1 million employees globally, Personio is built for everything HR has become. We support organisations of all sizes and industries, but specialise in global companies with between 200 and 5000 employees. We connect Core HR, Talent, and Payroll in one intelligent platform. Our platform eliminates manual work through automation, adapts to multi-entity complexity with flexible workflows, and transforms people data into strategic insights with AI. Personio is built with deep European expertise, and were the only HR platform with native payroll in Germany—Europes most complex market. Plus we offer comprehensive apps to manage the entire employee lifecycle including recruiting, performance, compensation, and feedback. From implementation to everyday support, Personio is your partner from day one. We focus on the real challenges of HR and build with purposeful AI that amplifies the power of HR teams. We help organisations around the world unlock the power of their people.
Board / Investor
Oct 2020
Flock Safety is the leading public safety platform designed to help communities prevent and reduce crime, not just respond to it. We partner with cities, law enforcement agencies, schools, businesses, and neighborhoods to deliver real-time, objective intelligence that helps stop crime quickly, responsibly, and transparently. Our technology captures objective evidence, such as vehicle and situational data, and applies privacy-first machine learning to surface actionable insights, so investigators can focus on facts, not guesswork. The result is faster resolutions, safer communities, and fewer intrusive policing practices. Unlike legacy systems built around force, hardware sprawl, or after-the-fact evidence review, Flock is purpose-built for crime prevention and accountability at scale. Our cloud-native platform is easy to deploy, simple to use, and designed with civil liberties at the core, including built-in data minimization, auditing, and user transparency. Why communities choose Flock Safety: Prevention-first public safety: stop crime earlier with shared, objective intelligence. Privacy by design: clear retention controls, audit logs, and policy-driven access. Real-time insights: machine learning that helps identify leads in minutes, not days. Unified platform: cameras, sensors, and intelligence working together seamlessly. Community trust: technology that supports public safety without overreach. Today, thousands of cities and organizations rely on Flock Safety to reduce crime, improve clearance rates, and build safer environments - without compromising the values of the communities they serve. Flock Safety is redefining public safety for the modern world: proactive, accountable, and community-centered.
Board / Investor
Aug 2020
Extend allows any merchant to offer extend warranties and plans through our easy-to-integrate APIs or pre-built eCommerce applications. We power extend warranties both online and offline while also providing consumers with a modern, digitaly native experience that eliminates the issues customers today with legacy offerings. Our platform is integrated into leading eCommerce solutions including Shopify, Magento, SalesforceCommerce Cloud, BigCommerce, and others so that you can be up and running quickly. We also provide custom API integrations for larger merchants who have their own eCommerce platform. Our intelligent decision engine uses machine learning to optimize warranty offers in real-time, thereby improving warranty and cart conversions and generating the most revenue for the merchant. For customers, Extend stores all the details of an individuals product purchase and warranty plan for them - no need to save receipts. Our 2/7 claims experience streamlines them through the claim process to create a seamless experience from start to finish.
Board / Investor
Apr 2019
Tray.ai offers a composable AI integration and automation platform that transforms AI into standout business performance. The Tray Universal Automation Cloud is an AI-ready platform that eliminates the need for disparate tools, enabling seamless integration and automation of complex business processes. As enterprises strive for competitive advantage, our platform helps IT teams deploy AI effectively, connecting systems, automating processes, and integrating data to handle even the most demanding AI use cases. Built for high-change environments, Tray.ai excels in rapid prototyping, testing, and deployment. Our platform supports all AI, integration, and automation initiatives from a single place. Developers benefit from a code-first, headless environment, freeing them from mundane tasks and allowing focus on business outcomes. The Tray Build IDE and AI Palette accelerate delivery for business technologists, providing easy access to 3rd party connectors and native AI capabilities. For CIOs, Tray.ai offers the necessary safeguards and audit controls, with features like Merlin Guardian for data obfuscation and robust governance through our Enterprise Core. Tray.ai ensures flexibility, scalability, and security, empowering enterprises to leverage AI confidently and effectively.
Board Observer
Oct 2018
Deliver Trusted Software with Speed. The only software supply chain platform to give you end-to-end visibility, security, and control for automating the delivery of trusted releases. The massively scalable, hybrid JFrog Platform is open, flexible, and integrated with all the package technologies and tools comprising the software supply chain. Organizations benefit from full traceability to any type of release and deployment environment including ML models, software that runs on the edge, and software deployed in production data centers.
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2026
Board / Investor
Jul 2026
Lumilens addresses the red hot market for AI data center infrastructure by designing, manufacturing and selling photonic interconnect solutions. We design and use custom robotics + AI in our factories to more efficiently build our products. Lumilens is backed by top-tier venture capital investors including Mayfield and Spark Capital.
2025
Board / Investor
Dec 2025
WorkOS is an API platform that simplifies implementing crucial enterprise features like User Management, Single Sign-On (SSO), Directory Sync (SCIM), Audit Logs, and more. With WorkOS, SaaS products can become enterprise-ready in minutes, instead of months, instantly unlocking multi-million dollar enterprise deals. With a unified platform, modern APIs, and developer-first design, WorkOS is an intuitive solution for adding enterprise-grade functionality to your app. Go up-market and multi-product faster by enabling your engineers to focus on building core product differentiation instead of table stakes, enterprise features.
Board / Investor
Oct 2025
Serval is a unified help desk, access management, and automation platform with a built-in AI agent workforce. Deploy AI agents to automate the most challenging help desk requests, build enterprise-grade workflow automations, and surface actionable insights.
Board / Investor
Oct 2025
Avoca is the AI front office built for service businesses. Avoca answers every call, works every lead, and checks in on every customer—keeping your boards full and your team focused on the work that matters. We are proud to be building for the trades. Trusted by 800+ operators across HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, pest control, automotive and more.
2024
Growth investor
Nov 2024
Talon.One is the most powerful incentives engine, unifying loyalty, personalized promotions and offer management into a single platform. Built for enterprise scale and security, Talon.One helps businesses design and deliver incentives that drive real customer behavior - repeat purchases, higher basket sizes, and long-term loyalty - without defaulting to margin-draining discounts. The world’s most-loved brands including Adidas, Sephora and Carlsberg work with Talon.One to turn their incentives into a reliable growth engine. Founded in 2015, the company has a global reach with teams in Berlin, London, Boston and Singapore, and over 300 clients across North America, Europe and APAC. It was recognized in Gartner’s 2025 Market Guide for Loyalty Program Vendors, and as a major player in IDC’s 2024 MarketScape report for Loyalty Software Providers. Learn more: https://www.talon.one/ Data Privacy & Imprint: https://www.talon.one/legal/imprint
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