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Altimeter Capital stages, portfolio and investment profile
Brad Gerstner's crossover technology investor managing public equity and private growth funds from Menlo Park, backing category-defining software and internet companies.
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Stage-based planning range
$1M–$10M
This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.
Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.
No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.
Investment stages
Leads: Series B+
Participates: Series A, Series B+
Sector focus
Enterprise SaaS · Infrastructure & Cloud
Geography
Menlo Park, CA
Founded 2008
Fund size / AUM
Not recorded
A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.
Portfolio in our directory
20
Linked startup profiles
Latest fund vehicle
Not recorded
Vehicle name, size, and vintage are not yet structured.
Rounds they lead
Rounds they invest
Last verified: Not recorded. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.
Portfolio companies we track
Startups in our directory that list Altimeter Capital as an investor (20 total).
- Anthropic AI safety company building Claude frontier models, API, and enterprise agents for coding and knowledge work.
- Base Power U.S.-made residential batteries and energy plans that aggregate into a virtual power plant — grid flexibility at the edge of the home.
- Baseten AI inference platform for deploying, serving, and autoscaling production models with OpenAI-compatible APIs.
- Benchling R&D cloud platform — the operating system for life science labs.
- Castelion Hypersonic strike missiles built for industrial-rate output, starting with Blackbeard.
- Cerebras Wafer-scale AI chips and inference cloud — CS-3 systems and Cerebras Inference API for training and production LLM serving.
- dbt Labs Analytics engineering platform — dbt transforms warehouse data into tested metrics layers.
- Deel Global payroll and compliance platform for hiring and paying international teams.
- Hadrian Automated precision manufacturing factories for aerospace and defense parts.
- Inferact Company behind vLLM — open-source LLM inference engine used by Meta, Google, and Character.ai in production.
- Inngest Durable step-function platform for serverless workflows and AI agent orchestration.
- Loft Brazilian proptech marketplace digitizing residential buying, selling, and financing.
- Motherduck Cloud analytics platform built around DuckDB for hybrid local/cloud SQL.
- OfferUp Mobile marketplace for local peer-to-peer buying and selling of household goods in the U.S.
- OpenAI Frontier AI lab behind ChatGPT, GPT models, and API platform for developers and enterprises.
- Starburst Enterprise Trino SQL engine for querying data without moving it to a warehouse.
- StockX Detroit-based authenticated marketplace for sneakers, streetwear, collectibles, and more.
- Tabular Apache Iceberg table format company for open lakehouse storage.
- Thrive Holdings OpenAI-backed AI deployment platform that acquires traditional services businesses and installs AI into their workflows — PE distribution for agents.
- XBOW Autonomous offensive security platform that continuously pentests applications with AI agents.
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