Arsham Memarzadeh is a General Partner at Meritech Capital in Palo Alto, where he leads enterprise software and infrastructure growth investments. He arrived in early 2025 after six years at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he helped lead the growth practice and backed Wiz, Chainguard, Verkada, ClickUp, Axonius, Personio, Enable, Payhawk, and Spiff.
George Bischof is a General Partner at Meritech Capital, one of Silicon Valley's leading late-stage venture firms focused on enterprise software, SaaS, cloud infrastructure, and cybersecurity. With over two decades in technology investment - first as a tech investment banker at Robertson Stephens (helping 60+ companies raise $4.5B+), then as a General Partner at Focus Ventures, and since 2008 at Meritech - he has backed category-defining companies including Box, Coupa, Auth0, FloQast, and Outreach. A Stanford and Kellogg alumnus, Bischof has been named to Forbes' Midas List of top tech venture capitalists multiple times and is known for concentrating on mission-critical, 'painkiller' enterprise applications at the Series B through D stage.
Max Motschwiller is a General Partner at Meritech Capital, a Palo Alto-based growth investment firm behind more than $150 billion in IPOs. He leads investments in enterprise software and fintech at Series B, with a focus on companies scaling toward market leadership. Before Meritech, he backed Uber, Duolingo, Dropcam, and MyFitnessPal at Kleiner Perkins, and spent three years at Summit Partners executing growth equity deals. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2015, Motschwiller brings an edge forged at Harvard lacrosse, two VC institutions, and a sharp eye for companies that define their categories.
Rob Ward is the co-founder and General Partner of Meritech Capital Partners, one of the first venture funds built exclusively around growth-stage technology investing. Since co-founding the firm in 1999, he has led investments in some of the most defining enterprise and consumer technology companies of the past 25 years, including Snowflake, Salesforce, Tableau, Fortinet, and Roblox. A repeat Forbes Midas List honoree, Ward focuses on analytics, data services, infrastructure, and enterprise applications, typically investing $5M-$25M at Series B with a sweet spot around $12M. Beyond capital, he tutors algebra at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto and was added to the Buffalo Bills ownership group in December 2024.