Company overview. Alsop Louie Management LLC, doing business as Alsop Louie Partners, is a private venture capital firm founded in San Francisco in 2006 by technology investors Stewart Alsop and Gilman Louie. It is registered with the SEC as an investment adviser (CRD #163299) and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm is privately held with no public ticker; no reliable public figures exist for revenue or employee count, and it is best characterized as a small, specialized early-stage investment firm.
Products / services / operations. Alsop Louie Management is the management entity for early-stage venture funds, including Alsop Louie Capital 2, L.P. and Alsop Louie Partners 2, LLC. It invests in U.S. technology startups focused on new media, gaming, SaaS, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and mobile, typically at seed through Series C stages. Notable portfolio activity includes a 2012 Series A lead investment in LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, a Baltimore-based threat-intelligence software company, with follow-on participation in later rounds.
Patent-litigation posture. The firm is an operating investment business, not a non-practicing entity: it has zero tracked cases as plaintiff and one as defendant. It was swept into litigation in its capacity as a venture investor and fund manager, not as a patent holder.
Notable cases or context. In Centripetal Networks, Inc. v. LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, Inc. et al. (filed September 14, 2021, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, later transferred to Richmond), Alsop Louie Management was named as a defendant alongside LookingGlass, co-founder Gilman Louie (its CEO), and the two affiliated funds. The complaint asserted patent infringement (U.S. Patent 10,785,266) as well as breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and abetting breach of fiduciary duty arising from Centripetal's dealings with portfolio company LookingGlass. LookingGlass was later acquired by ZeroFox Holdings in April 2023 for approximately $41 million, with Alsop Louie among the selling shareholders.