Alex Moore

Investment Team
Austin, TX
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Alex Moore focuses on incubating companies through 8VC’s Build Program, Defense, building talent networks and fundamental operational support for the portfolio. Alex also focuses on enterprise and seed-stage investments. Prior to joining 8VC Alex was a startup operator for 12 years. Alex was the first employee and Director of Operations at Palantir Technologies, building the team from one room to 350 people, $100mm in sales. Alex co-founded Backplane, a social media analytics company, and NodePrime, a cloud automation company which was acquired in 2016 by Ericsson.

Following his operator career, Alex invested in over 50 seed-stage companies. Alex sits on the boards of Palantir, Epirus, Premise Data, Nylas, Standard Metrics, Anduin Transactions, FieldGuide, Chaos Industries, and Saronic. Alex graduated from Stanford University in 2005 with a BA in Economics.

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Aug 27, 2022

Silicon Valley's newest mafia: The Palantir Pack

When Luba Lesiva created the Palantir Alumni syndicate on AngelList, she thought it would be a small project to help a handful of LPs invest in companies started by her former co-workers. By her mental count, the former head of Palantir’s investor relations could name at most a dozen, maybe two dozen alumni-led companies. Her thesis was the group would do a deal or two a year.

Aug 27, 2022

Silicon Valley's newest mafia: The Palantir Pack

When Luba Lesiva created the Palantir Alumni syndicate on AngelList, she thought it would be a small project to help a handful of LPs invest in companies started by her former co-workers. By her mental count, the former head of Palantir’s investor relations could name at most a dozen, maybe two dozen alumni-led companies. Her thesis was the group would do a deal or two a year.

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News
Mar 15, 2022

Less Risk, More Practice

Earlier this month, Fieldguide announced their $17 million Series A, led by 8VC. Fieldguide CEO Jin Chang’s excellent blog post conveys both the tremendous functional appetite for their platform, and their larger mission to empower risk practices to increase trust in commerce and capital markets.

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News
Mar 15, 2022

Less Risk, More Practice

Earlier this month, Fieldguide announced their $17 million Series A, led by 8VC. Fieldguide CEO Jin Chang’s excellent blog post conveys both the tremendous functional appetite for their platform, and their larger mission to empower risk practices to increase trust in commerce and capital markets.

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News
Feb 25, 2022

Institutional Investment Goes Fully Online

8VC is excited to announce that we’ve led a $23.7 million Series A for Standard Metrics, formerly known as Quaestor.

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News
Feb 25, 2022

Institutional Investment Goes Fully Online

8VC is excited to announce that we’ve led a $23.7 million Series A for Standard Metrics, formerly known as Quaestor.

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Aug 10, 2020

Come build world changing companies with us

Our partners have built many great technology companies over the years as founders or early leaders, and we are deeply enmeshed in a number of industries, debating what is coming next and working with leaders to help our entrepreneurs succeed or to put together new companies.

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Aug 10, 2020

Come build world changing companies with us

Our partners have built many great technology companies over the years as founders or early leaders, and we are deeply enmeshed in a number of industries, debating what is coming next and working with leaders to help our entrepreneurs succeed or to put together new companies.

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Nov 26, 2018

Technology and the Future of Law

At 8VC we invest in technologies with the capacity to transform antiquated processes in old-line industries. In the private sector, one of the least tech-enabled industries is Law.

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Nov 26, 2018

Technology and the Future of Law

At 8VC we invest in technologies with the capacity to transform antiquated processes in old-line industries. In the private sector, one of the least tech-enabled industries is Law.

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