Partner
Alex Kurland
AI
Infrastructure
Fintech
Alex joined Menlo Ventures in 2026 and helps lead the firm’s growth-stage investing practice. He focuses on AI-native companies across infrastructure, software, and financial technology.
Alex was previously a partner at Meritech and Kleiner Perkins, where he invested in Clay, Datadog, DoorDash, Kalshi, Looker, OpenEvidence, Slack, Snowflake, and UiPath.
Alex gravitates toward highly technical and ambitious founders. He believes people and talent are the atomic unit of every generational company and, especially in today’s competitive environment, companies need a mission that inspires and attracts the type of people who can shape the future.
On a personal note, Alex lives in Mill Valley with his wife, daughter, and French Bulldog.
Supported by: Anna Arevalo, [email protected]
Investment Portfolio
Carta is a software platform for founders, investors, and employees to manage cap tables, equity, and ownership.
Milestones
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2012 - Founded
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2017 - Partnered, Series C
Leadership
Henry Ward
Co-Founder & CEO
Partners
Modal is a serverless compute platform that makes it easy for developers to run compute-intensive workloads like ML inference, fine-tuning, and batch jobs.
Milestones
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2021 - Founded
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2026 - Partnered, Series C
Leadership
Erik Bernhardsson
Co-Founder & CEO
Akshat Bubna
Co-Founder & CTO
Partners
OpenEvidence is an AI copilot for doctors that helps them make high-stakes decisions at the point of care.
Milestones
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2021 - Founded
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2026 - Partnered, Series D
Leadership
Daniel Nadler
Founder & CEO
Partners
Carta
Carta is a software platform for founders, investors, and employees to manage cap tables, equity, and ownership.
Modal
Modal is a serverless compute platform that makes it easy for developers to run compute-intensive workloads like ML inference, fine-tuning, and batch jobs.
OpenEvidence
OpenEvidence is an AI copilot for doctors that helps them make high-stakes decisions at the point of care.
