Meritech Capital Partners
Late-stage venture firm; founded 1999, Palo Alto. ~$2.2B+ AUM. High-conviction, low-volume. Notable portfolio: Salesforce, Snowflake, Datadog, Cloudflare, Okta, Twilio, UiPath, Braze, Amplitude, Roblox — quintessential SaaS / data / IT-tooling franchises.
Serval Relevance
- **Participated in Serval’s 1B post.
- Alex Clayton — Meritech General Partner — wrote a personal angel check at Series A (Oct 2025). This pre-figured Meritech’s institutional follow-on at Series B. Pattern: angel sourcing → firm-level participation.
- Pre-Meritech: Spark Capital Growth Fund (Braze, JFrog, Outreach, Pendo, Tray.io); before that Redpoint Ventures (Duo Security, Justworks, Sourcegraph, RelateIQ, Lifesize); started at Goldman Sachs TMT.
- Forbes 30 Under 30 (2016), Midas Brink List (2018). Famous publicly for S-1 teardowns.
- Specific Meritech deal partner at Series B not publicly attributed ^[ambiguous] — possibly Clayton himself, possibly Max Motschwiller or Anna Khan.