Laura Spiekerman

Laura Spiekerman is a Barnard College alumna; in college she wrote her senior thesis on microfinance.⁠[1][2]

She worked on the research and investment team at Imprint Capital Advisors, which was later acquired by Goldman SachsGoldman SachsGoldman Sachs is an American financial services group headquartered in New York whose businesses include investment banking, securities trading, asset management, and wealth management. It traces its origins to the commercial paper business Marcus Goldman founded in 1869; it listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1999 under the ticker GS and became a bank holding company in 2008. David Solomon serves as chairman and chief executive officer.Open the full entry.⁠[3]

In 2011 Spiekerman went to East Africa to help a start-up move microfinance disbursements onto the M-PESA mobile money system. She concluded that phones were solving last-mile distribution and that identity was the real blocker.⁠[2]

Recalling the problem in 2026, she said: “It was this very human problem literally blocking people’s access to the financial infrastructure and ecosystem.”⁠[2]

Spiekerman led business development and partnerships at an ACH payments start-up, where she met her future Alloy co-founders; there they saw customers sending half of new applicants to manual review.⁠[3][2]

In 2015 she co-founded Alloy with Tommy Nicholas and Charles Hearn; the company started as an onboarding API intended to improve conversion and reduce fraud and friction.⁠[4][5][2]

On September 30, 2021, Alloy announced a $100 million Series C led by Lightspeed Venture PartnersLightspeed Venture PartnersLightspeed Venture Partners backs companies from seed through late-stage financing. Its website distinguishes Lightspeed Management Company (LSVP) from Lightspeed India Partners (LSIP): the two are separately operated investment advisers, with the U.S., European, and Israeli offices belonging to LSVP and the India and Southeast Asia offices belonging to LSIP.Open the full entry at a $1.35 billion valuation, bringing its total funding above $150 million.⁠[6]

Speaking as Alloy’s president in April 2026 about the company’s AI products, Spiekerman said: “Building something that’s not a black box is really hard and really important.”⁠[2]

She added: “Financial services is in this place where there’s a lot of paperwork and a lot of Googling that we can disrupt.”⁠[2]

Spiekerman served as Alloy’s chief revenue officer and is now the company’s president.⁠[3][5]

Alloy: Official website: https://www.alloy.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[5]