AI
AI spotlight
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Milestones
- 2021 → Founded
- 2023 → Partnered, Series C
Partner
Pinecone makes it easy to build high-performance vector search applications with its managed, cloud-native vector database and simple API.
Milestones
- 2019 → Founded
- 2022 → Partnered, Series A
Partner
Typeface is an enterprise-grade generative AI app to create engaging, personalized content faster and easier than ever before.
Milestones
- 2022 → Founded
- 2023 → Partnered, Series A
Partner
Sana is an AI-powered learning platform that empowers organizations to find, share, and harness the knowledge they need to achieve their missions.
Milestones
- 2016 → Founded
- 2022 → Partnered, Series B
Partner
Clarifai is an artificial intelligence company that excels in visual recognition, solving real-world problems for businesses and developers alike.
Milestones
- 2013 → Founded
- 2016 → Partnered, Series B
Partner
Genesis Therapeutics is pioneering AI technologies to create medicines for patients with severe and unmet medical needs.
Milestones
- 2019 → Founded
- 2020 → Partnered, Series A
Partner
Lindy is an AI assistant that can help with all your tasks, from calendar management and email drafting to contract sending and beyond.
Milestones
- 2020 → Founded
- 2020 → Partnered, Seed
Partner
Observe.AI transforms customer service experiences and improves agent performance by helping businesses analyze 100% of calls and streamline quality assurance workflows.
Milestones
- 2017 → Founded
- 2020 → Partnered, Series B
Partner
Our perspective
The enterprise AI landscape is being rewritten in real time. As pilots give way to production, we surveyed 600 U.S. enterprise IT decision-makers to reveal the emerging winners and losers.
At Menlo Ventures, we remain excited about the future of cybersecurity, particularly companies leading with AI innovation.
Numeric is the first company succeeding in building the financial graph that unifies disparate data silos, workflows, and subledgers.
Since announcing the Anthology Fund, we’ve received thousands of applications from pioneering founders. Here’s what we discovered about the next wave of AI-powered companies.
The battle for AI talent continues to heat up: Top AI/ML scientists and researchers are now commanding staggering compensation packages that far exceed those of traditional technical roles like software engineers.
Unlike previous generations of software that primarily addressed low-level, sequential tasks that could be robotically executed, new cognitive architectures enable AI agents to dynamically automate end-to-end processes.
With new building blocks like multi-step logic, external memory, and access to third-party tools and APIs, the next wave of agents is expanding the frontier of AI capabilities to enable end-to-end process automation.
The Anthology Fund is a $100 million initiative created through a partnership between Menlo Ventures and Anthropic to fuel the next generation of AI startups.
We are delighted to announce that Menlo Ventures is leading Kinetic’s $21 million Series B to support them on their journey to rethink smart car maintenance and repair.
C.C. joins us as a principal, focused on AI applications for consumer and enterprise and broader consumer tech.
Predictive and generative AI are entering many new applications. At Menlo Ventures, we are especially excited about applications for AI in drug discovery and development, specifically when new technology can directly address a major unmet need.
With supply chain companies increasingly recognizing the advantages of shared data and optimized workflows, a new era of collaboration is on the horizon.
Observe’s success in moving to the enterprise provides a playbook for both startups and enterprises on how to leverage GenAI to win together.
Today, we mark a significant milestone as we congratulate airspace security pioneer Dedrone on its agreement to be acquired by Axon.
The first AI-native enterprise apps broke from the pack, distinguishing themselves from the wave of AI apps that emerged last year following the rise of OpenAI and Anthropic.
Deedy joins us as a principal, focused on early-stage investments in AI/ML, next-generation infrastructure, and enterprise software.