Cybersecurity
The rise of AI and the cloud, coupled with stricter regulations, has created a new era of cybersecurity challenges—and unprecedented opportunities for innovation.
What we do
Investing in Founders With Deep Cybersecurity Experience and Cutting-Edge AI Expertise
Menlo Ventures looks for founding teams with a combination of security and AI DNA, which we consider crucial for developing solutions that not only understand the nuances of complex security challenges, but also harness the full potential of AI to solve them.
Our Thinking
We believe a combination of new compliance requirements and regulations, increased cloud and AI adoption, and a constantly evolving threat landscape are driving unprecedented growth in cybersecurity.
Our Cybersecurity Companies
The founders we back don’t limit themselves to what is, but relentlessly pursue what could be. We invest in founders who harness AI to transform cybersecurity—creating intelligent defenses that stay ahead of emerging threats.
Abnormal AI is an integrated email security solution for the cloud office, detecting the whole spectrum of email attacks, from vendor compromise and spear-phishing to unwanted spam and graymail.
Milestones
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2018 – Founded
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2020 – Partnered, Series B
Leadership
Evan Reiser
Co-Founder & CEO
Sanjay Jeyakumar
Co-Founder & CTO
Partners
BitSight Technologies is transforming how companies manage information security risk with objective, evidence-based security ratings.
Milestones
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2011 – Founded
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2013 – Partnered, Series A
Leadership
Steve Harvey
CEO
Stephen Boyer
Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer
Partners
Cequence is an API security platform that unifies API visibility and risk assessment with native, enterprise-grade attack and vulnerability protection.
Milestones
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2014 – Founded
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2021 – Partnered, Series C
Partners
IronPort developed email and web security tools to protect organizations from spam, viruses, malware, and other internet threats.
Milestones
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2000 – Founded
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2002 – Partnered, Series B
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2007 – Acquired by Cisco
Partners
Obsidian aggregates, normalizes, and enriches user activity, access, and privilege data across SaaS applications to help organizations identify potential account compromise, data leakage, or insider threats.
Milestones
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2017 – Founded
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2022 – Partnered, Series C
Partners
Signifyd is the world’s largest provider of guaranteed fraud protection, protecting online retailers against fraud and chargebacks with a 100% financial guarantee for every approved order.
Milestones
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2011 – Founded
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2016 – Partnered, Series B
Partners
StackRox is a Kubernetes-native security platform for cloud-native applications, containers, serverless, and Kubernetes.
Milestones
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2014 – Founded
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2020 – Partnered, Series B
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2021 – Acquired by Red Hat
Partners
Strata is pioneering distributed identity orchestration, enabling enterprises to seamlessly unify on-premises and cloud-based authentication and access systems for consistent identity management in multi-cloud environments.
Milestones
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2019 – Founded
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2020 – Partnered, Series A
Leadership
Eric Olden
Co-Founder & CEO
Topher Marie
Co-Founder & CTO
Eric Leach
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
Partners
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