Meritech Capital — Seed & Series A VC Firm ($500K–$5.0M Checks)
Meritech Capital is a Seed, Series A venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California investing in Enterprise, Developer Tools, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $500K–$5.0M checks and has 25 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$5.0M
- Portfolio
- 25 companies on record
- Partners
- 9 listed
- AUM
- $4.5B
- Stage
- Seed, Series A
- Sectors
- Enterprise, Developer Tools, AI / ML, SaaS, Other
- HQ
- Palo Alto, California
Last verified: 2026-10-03
Seed, Series A
$500K – $5.0M
$4.5B
25+ companies
9 partners
Investment Thesis
Software investor with strong enterprise and infrastructure orientation. Relevant when a startup is early but has clear path to major platform scale.
How Meritech Capital invests
Meritech Capital is a vc firm based in Palo Alto, California. The firm invests at the Seed, Series A stages, with a focus on Enterprise, Developer Tools, AI / ML, SaaS, Other.
Meritech Capital typically writes checks of $500K–$5.0M per investment, backed by approximately $4.5B in assets under management.
Meritech Capital has backed 25 companies in our records, including OpenEvidence, Meta, Kalshi.
Partners & Team
George Bischof
General Partner
Samantha Lasry
Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (25)
Other
OpenEvidence
Meta
Kalshi
Roblox
fal
Cognition
Snowflake
Datadog
Flock Safety
Salesforce
- •Raising at Seed, Series A? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Enterprise, Developer Tools, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $5.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Rob Ward, Co-Founder.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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