Louis Toth
Managing Partner at Alter Venture Partners
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Investor & Board Member
2021 - Current
Intelligent cloud edge for video streaming of sports, entertainment and live events.
Videons video compute platform enables scalable, operational, affordable on-premise, in the studio, in-stadium live video solutions.
Raised $16,300,000.00 from Bruce Chizen, Voyager Capital, Fortson VC, Alter Venture Partners and Cercano Management.
Investor
2021
Next-generation Kubernetes orchestration providing full lifecycle management of containers.
Spectro Cloud uniquely enables organizations to manage Kubernetes in production, at scale.
Raised $162,500,000.00 from Goldman Sachs Alternatives.
Investor & Board Member
2021
FMCW LiDAR for industrial/robotics, automotive, security, and UAV applications.
Managing Partner
2019
Alter Venture Partners is new early stage B2B technology-oriented venture capital fund started by experienced investment and operating executives. Focus areas include cloud/data center, edge computing, networking, mobility, DevOps, cyber security, ML/AI, and computer vision.
Investor & Board
2020
ML semiconductors applied to computer vision for embedded devices.
SiMa.ai is a developer of machine learning technology to deliver a software-centric platform.
Raised $270,000,000.00 from Lip-Bu Tan, Jericho Capital, Maverick Capital, Point72, Dell Technologies Capital, Fidelity, Amplify Partners, VentureTech Alliance, Navin Chaddha and Lip-Bu Tan.
Investor
2020
Series A investor in a thin intelligent network edge start-up.
Seed Investor
2018
Online gaming application development.
Adviser
2018
Advising multiple corporate venture capital funds related to communications/mobility, IoT, cyber security, and access controls.
Touchdown Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm that partners with corporations to invest in early and growth-stage companies.
Founding Investor
2016
Cloud-based security analytics based on Osquery. Incubated Uptycs with founding executive team. Board member 2016-2018.
Uptycs reduces risk by prioritizing threats and vulnerabilities across cloud, containers, and endpoints—all from a single UI and data model.
Raised $93,000,000.00 from Sapphire Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners.
Investor
2014
NoSQL database built on Apache Cassandra.
DataStax is the real-time data company for Gen AI applications.
Raised $342,571,788.00 from Crosslink Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, GS Growth, OnePrime Capital, Rokos Capital Management and EDBI.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
1997 - 1999
Master of Arts (MA)
1997 - 1999
BSE
1989 - 1993
BS Econ
1989 - 1993