Partner
Rama Sekhar
Cybersecurity
AI
Infrastructure
Rama is a partner at Menlo Ventures, focused on investments in cybersecurity, AI, and cloud infrastructure. He is passionate about partnering with founders to build the next generation of cybersecurity, infrastructure, and observability companies for the new AI stack.
Rama joined Menlo after 15 years at Norwest Venture Partners, where he invested in a number of successful companies, including Veza (acquired by ServiceNow), Harness, Algorithmia (acquired by DataRobot), Dremio (acquired by SAP), InfluxData, Numbers Station (acquired by Alation), and more. Rama was previously an investor at Comcast Ventures and also worked at Cisco, where he held roles as a systems engineer and product manager.
Rama earned his MBA from the Wharton School with a double major in finance and entrepreneurial management. He also holds a BS in electrical and computer engineering from Rutgers University with high honors. Beyond work, you can catch Rama jacking up threes on the basketball court, savoring his winemaker wife’s latest creations, rooting hopelessly for the NY Giants, and doubling as a human jungle gym for his two children.
Supported by: Anna Arevalo, [email protected]
Investment Portfolio
Astrix is the leader in non-human identity (NHI) security.
Milestones
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2021 - Founded
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2024 - Partnered, Series B
Leadership
Alon Jackson
Co-Founder & CEO
Idan Gour
Co-Founder & CTO
Partners
BeHeard reimagines feedback by transforming boring surveys into continuous, heart-to-heart conversations with brands.
Leadership
Mayank Mehta
Co-Founder & CEO
Aneesh Karve
Co-Founder & CTO
Partners
Clerk provides developer tools for authentication, user management, and session management.
Milestones
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2019 - Founded
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2025 - Partnered, Series C
Leadership
Colin Sidoti
Co-Founder & CEO
Braden Sidoti
Co-Founder & CTO
Partners
Graphite is an AI-powered developer productivity platform that helps developers create, review, and merge smaller code changes, stay unblocked, and ship faster.
Milestones
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2020 - Founded
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2025 - Partnered, Series B
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2026 - Acquired by Cursor
Leadership
Merrill Lutsky
CEO & Co-Founder
Tomas Reimers
CPO & Co-Founder
Greg Foster
CTO & Co-Founder
Partners
Harness’ Continuous-Delivery-as-a-Service platform enables every software engineering team in the world to deliver code reliably, efficiently and quickly to their users.
Milestones
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2016 - Founded
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2017 - Partnered, Series A
Leadership
Jyoti Bansal
Co-Founder & CEO
Partners
Zafran Security is the first AI-native, end-to-end Threat Exposure Management platform to help security teams stop vulnerability exploitation everywhere.
Milestones
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2022 - Founded
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2025 - Partnered, Series C
Leadership
Sanaz Yashar
Co-Founder & CEO
Ben Seri
Co-Founder & CTO
Snir Havdala
Co-Founder & CPO
Partners
Astrix
Astrix is the leader in non-human identity (NHI) security.
BeHeard
BeHeard reimagines feedback by transforming boring surveys into continuous, heart-to-heart conversations with brands.
Clerk
Clerk provides developer tools for authentication, user management, and session management.
Graphite
Graphite is an AI-powered developer productivity platform that helps developers create, review, and merge smaller code changes, stay unblocked, and ship faster.
Acquired by Cursor
Harness
Harness’ Continuous-Delivery-as-a-Service platform enables every software engineering team in the world to deliver code reliably, efficiently and quickly to their users.
Zafran Security
Zafran Security is the first AI-native, end-to-end Threat Exposure Management platform to help security teams stop vulnerability exploitation everywhere.
