Alex Kurland

General Partner @ Meritech

📍 United States, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 21 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Dec 2025
Launched during the Mayo Clinic Platform Accelerate program, backed by Sequoia and Google, and an official Content Partner of the New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of the American Medical Association OpenEvidence is the world’s leading medical information platform.
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Nov 2025
The first US federally regulated exchange where you can trade on the outcome of any event. Kalshi’s historical regulatory approval from the CFTC enables it to offer a new asset class called “event contracts,” which allow traders to take positions on whether a future event will happen or not. Kalshi aims to enable investors to trade on almost anything with economic relevance from Covid numbers to whether a bill will pass in Congress, broadening the historical definition of what a commodity derivative is and paving the way for the futures market to catch up to the novel risks facing the economy today. Kalshi is backed by Sequoia, Henry Kravis, Charles Schwab, and Y Combinator.
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Aug 2025
Were an audio data research company. Visit our website to learn more: https://www.withdavid.ai/
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May 2025
Owner makes online growth easy for restaurants. Our software helps local restaurants compete — and win against — big corporations. Independent restaurants choose us because we give them a proven system that works, not an endless set of tools to figure out. As the world continues to move online, were building the AI that every local business owner will use to succeed. Join us! www.owner.com/careers
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Mar 2025
Pennylane is building the financial OS (Operating System) for European SMEs. A single source of truth for financial and accounting data, used on one side by entrepreneurs to run their business (invoicing and getting paid, paying suppliers and expense management, piloting cash and profitability) and on the other side by their accountant for bookkeeping and tax filings. Saving time to all entrepreneurs and accountants, helping them to make the right decisions and enabling 3rd parties to offer added-value personalized financial services. We’ve launched in France and will expand to other markets in Continental Europe in 2024. Our commercial website is thus in French only but the code is obviously documented in English and our tech team speaks English. We’re product-led, growing fast, backed by strong investors and are hiring software engineers anywhere in Europe to join our experienced remote-first engineering team.
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Jun 2024
✨ The creative tool for growth | Go to market with unique data - and the ability to act on it
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May 2024
Protect Your Endpoints, Identities, Logs, and Employees. The fully managed security platform that combines endpoint detection and response, Microsoft 365 identity protection, a predictably affordable SIEM and science-based security awareness training. Powered by custom-built enterprise technology for mid-market enterprises, small businesses, and the MSPs that support them and delivered by unrivaled industry analysts in our 24/7 Security Operations Center. By delivering a suite of purpose-built solutions that meet budget, security, and peace-of-mind requirements, Huntress is how the globe’s most underresourced businesses defend against today’s cyberthreats. As long as hackers keep hacking, we keep hunting.
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Oct 2022
Persona helps businesses manage KYC/AML/KYB programs, fight fraud, and build trust by automating any identity-related use case with our flexible identity infrastructure. For example, we help Coursera verify learners’ identities before delivering course credentials and Brex comply with strict international KYC/AML regulations. Beyond securely collecting and verifying user information such as PII, government IDs, and selfies, our platform also provides flexible case review and orchestration tools to help businesses streamline and automate all their identity operations — from setting custom rules to ingesting third-party data and triggering external actions. In short, Persona handles the complexities of securely collecting, verifying, and managing sensitive personal information, so you can stay focused on building your product.
Board Observer
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.
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Apr 2019
Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI-powered platform. A leader in cloud physical security, Verkada unifies video security, access control, sensors, alarms, intercoms, and workplace tools through one connected platform—Verkada Command—empowering teams to act proactively and create safer, smarter environments.
Board Member
Dec 2018
Carta powers interconnectivity in private markets — uniting data, people, and workflows in one connected system. We connect founders, investors, and limited partners through software purpose-built for private capital. Trusted by 50,000+ companies in 160+ countries, Carta’s platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build, invest, and scale with confidence. Carta’s Fund Administration platform supports 8,500+ funds and SPVs, representing nearly $185B in assets under management, with tools designed to enhance the strategic impact of fund CFOs. Carta has been included on the Fortune Best Large Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance and Best Workplaces in the Bay Area lists, Forbes’ list of the Worlds Best Cloud Companies, Fast Companys Most Innovative list, Inc.s Fastest-Growing Private Companies list, and is certified as a Great Place to Work for 2025-2026 (3 years running!). For more information, visit carta.com.
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Oct 2018
**Snowflake is proud to be the Official Data Collaboration Provider for LA28 and Team USA.** Snowflake delivers the AI Data Cloud — a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the AI Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflake’s platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the AI Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing. Join Snowflake customers, partners, and data providers already taking their businesses to new frontiers in the AI Data Cloud.
Board Member
Sep 2018
IBM Instana’s Enterprise Observability Platform, powered by automated Application Performance Monitoring, discovers and maps all services, infrastructure and their inter-dependencies automatically. Instana ingests all observability metrics, traces each request, profiles every process and updates application dependency maps in real time to deliver the context and actionable feedback needed by Dev+Ops to optimize application performance, enable innovation and mitigate risk to help them add value and efficiency to the pipeline.
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Jul 2018
Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications. We bring together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.
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Dec 2025
Launched during the Mayo Clinic Platform Accelerate program, backed by Sequoia and Google, and an official Content Partner of the New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of the American Medical Association OpenEvidence is the world’s leading medical information platform.
Investor
Nov 2025
The first US federally regulated exchange where you can trade on the outcome of any event. Kalshi’s historical regulatory approval from the CFTC enables it to offer a new asset class called “event contracts,” which allow traders to take positions on whether a future event will happen or not. Kalshi aims to enable investors to trade on almost anything with economic relevance from Covid numbers to whether a bill will pass in Congress, broadening the historical definition of what a commodity derivative is and paving the way for the futures market to catch up to the novel risks facing the economy today. Kalshi is backed by Sequoia, Henry Kravis, Charles Schwab, and Y Combinator.
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Aug 2025
Were an audio data research company. Visit our website to learn more: https://www.withdavid.ai/
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May 2025
Owner makes online growth easy for restaurants. Our software helps local restaurants compete — and win against — big corporations. Independent restaurants choose us because we give them a proven system that works, not an endless set of tools to figure out. As the world continues to move online, were building the AI that every local business owner will use to succeed. Join us! www.owner.com/careers
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