Alloy Ventures, Inc. is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in incubation, seed, early stage, and later stage companies. The firm typically invests in information technology, life sciences, and clean tech companies. In life sciences, it seeks to invest in medical devices, laboratory instrumentation, and diagnostics; in information technology the firm prefers to invest in software including consumer internet applications, infrastructure software enterprise applications; systems, mobile, and semiconductors; and in clean tech it focuses on solar and biotech companies. It prefers to invest between $1 million-$5 million initially in a company, The firm may also reserve additional capital for subsequent financing rounds. Alloy Ventures, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Palo Alto, California.