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Alex Clayton

Investor at Augment

United States

Overview 

Alex Clayton is a Partner at Meritech Capital, specializing in investments in various sectors including cybersecurity, SaaS, and enterprise infrastructure. With a strong track record of successful investments in companies like Personio and Flock Safety, he brings expertise in financial modeling, valuations, and mergers & acquisitions to drive growth and success for start-up ventures. Alex has played a pivotal role in Meritech Capital's investments in high-growth companies, such as leading Series E investments in Personio and Flock Safety, showcasing his strategic acumen and ability to identify promising opportunities in the market. His board positions in companies like Rewst and Framer further demonstrate his commitment to supporting and guiding the growth of innovative start-ups in the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2019 - Current

Meritech Capital provides late-stage venture capital to technology companies.

  • Growth Investor

    2024

The most context-aware Developer AI. With Augment, dev teams get up to speed and get more done.

Raised $252,000,000.00 from Evolution Equity Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Sutter Hill Ventures, Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

  • Board

    2023

Rewst develops a robotic process automation technology for smaller managed services providers.

Raised $124,000,000.00 from OpenView, Sapphire Ventures and Meritech Capital Partners.

  • Board

    2023

  • Board

    2021

Superblocks is a software company that offers UI templates, AI interfaces, and generative app services.

Raised $37,000,000.00 from Aaron Levie, Jeff Lawson, Tom Gonser, Max Mullen, Kleiner Perkins, Sam Blond, Avlok Kohli, Apoorva Mehta, Jeremy Stoppelman and Meritech Capital Partners.

  • Board

    2021

ClickUp is an IT firm that offers IT, marketing, engineering, design, and operations solutions and products to improve workplace efficiency.

Raised $537,500,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, Meritech Capital Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.

  • Board

    2020

  • Board

    2020

Flock Safety provides a full-service tech solution that helps communities prevent crime, shaping a safer future together.

Raised $380,584,142.00 from Bedrock, Initialized Capital, Tiger Global Management, Meritech Capital Partners, Matrix, Spark Capital, 776 Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.

  • Board

    2020

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