Meritech Capital Partners

Meritech Capital Partners is a technology investment firm founded in 1999 that focuses on late-stage growth investing. The firm makes equity investments in late-stage technology companies and works with founders as they scale, describing its approach as founder-centric and oriented towards long-term relationships rather than transactional dealmaking.

The firm operates as a small, equal partnership in which partners work directly with portfolio companies; there are no separate platform teams. Investment activity follows a low-volume, high-conviction model, with the firm working with a hand-picked group of founders rather than pursuing breadth. Meritech states its guiding principle on ownership in plain terms: 'It's your company, not ours.'

Since inception the firm has made more than 200 investments and recorded more than 60 IPOs across its portfolio. Sector focus is concentrated in technology, where late-stage growth capital - financing for companies past product-market fit seeking capital to expand - has become an established asset class supporting firms on the path to public markets or further scale.

Careers at the firm sit within an equal partnership structure, and the absence of dedicated platform or operating teams means investment professionals engage directly with founders and their businesses over extended holding periods.