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Anthropic logo

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Milestones
  • 2021 Founded
  • 2023 Partnered, Series C
Pinecone logo
Pinecone logo

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
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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
Sana Labs logo
Sana Labs logo

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
clarifai

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
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Genesis Therapeutics logo
Genesis Therapeutics logo

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
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Lindy logo
Lindy logo

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
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observe-ai

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
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Menlo Welcomes Former Atlassian CPO Joff Redfern to Our Investment Team 

Joff joins our team of deep and complementary operators and, in particular, adds world-class expertise in finding product-market fit and scaling product organizations.

Opportunities and Challenges of Applying Generative AI to Designing New Drugs
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Generative AI: Lessons From Prior Waves

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Our Investment in Anthropic: The Foundation Layer for Generative AI
Evan Feinberg, CEO of Genesis Therapeutics
Video: Engineering New Drugs With Generative AI at Genesis Therapeutics
Our Investment in Luca: The AI-Driven Pricing Co-Pilot for Large E-commerce Companies
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The Seven Generative AI Building Blocks for the Next Generation of Consumer Technology Companies

OpenAI’s ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly active users just two months after launch, setting the new standard for the fastest-growing consumer application in history. The landmark achievement underscored the strength of generative AI’s pull in consumer markets—surpassing even the breakthroughs of the internet and smartphones.

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Pinecone Now Valued at $750M, Arguably the Most Important Element in the Modern Data Stack

Pinecone has raised a $100M Series B led by A16Z—with explosive growth justifying their new $750M valuation.

Video: Reengineering Drug Discovery With Recursion
Our Investment in Typeface: Generative AI at Enterprise Speed and Scale
Joel Hellermark, CEO of Sana Labs
Building the Organizational Knowledge Graph: Our Series B Investment in Sana
Investing in RelationalAI: Evolving the Modern Data Stack
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AI for Contact Centers: Menlo’s Series C Investment in Observe.AI

We’re pleased to again invest in Observe.AI’s Series C round to fuel their next stage of development and product innovation.

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Why Menlo Ventures Invested in TruEra
Menlo Welcomes Former Atlassian CPO Joff Redfern to Our Investment Team 

Joff joins our team of deep and complementary operators and, in particular, adds world-class expertise in finding product-market fit and scaling product organizations.

September 7, 2023Matt Murphy
Opportunities and Challenges of Applying Generative AI to Designing New Drugs

Drug design is both a natural fit and a unique challenge for generative AI, given large but messy datasets, time and cost of real-world testing, and the complexity of human trials.

August 9, 2023Johnny Hu and Ph.D.
Generative AI: Lessons From Prior Waves

While navigating this exciting yet complex landscape may seem daunting for startups, lessons from past tech waves, along with a thoughtful, strategic approach, can help illuminate the path forward.

May 31, 2023Steve Sloane
Our Investment in Anthropic: The Foundation Layer for Generative AI

We stand on the precipice of an extraordinary platform shift catalyzed by groundbreaking advancements in generative artificial intelligence.

May 23, 2023Matt Murphy, Derek Xiao and Andreas Vandris
Video: Engineering New Drugs With Generative AI at Genesis Therapeutics

Genesis Therapeutics is pioneering AI technologies to create medicines for patients with severe and unmet medical needs.

May 2, 2023Greg Yap
Our Investment in Luca: The AI-Driven Pricing Co-Pilot for Large E-commerce Companies

Retail e-commerce is as old as the advent of the web. In the decades that followed, a wave of innovation across supply chain, logistics, advertising, payments, checkout, and storefront tech has vastly improved the consumer e-commerce experience.

April 28, 2023Aunkur Arya and Andreas Vandris
The Seven Generative AI Building Blocks for the Next Generation of Consumer Technology Companies

OpenAI’s ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly active users just two months after launch, setting the new standard for the fastest-growing consumer application in history. The landmark achievement underscored the strength of generative AI’s pull in consumer markets—surpassing even the breakthroughs of the internet and smartphones.

April 27, 2023Shawn Carolan, Katie Keller and Derek Xiao
Pinecone Now Valued at $750M, Arguably the Most Important Element in the Modern Data Stack

Pinecone has raised a $100M Series B led by A16Z—with explosive growth justifying their new $750M valuation.

April 27, 2023Tim Tully
Video: Reengineering Drug Discovery With Recursion

Recursion is a breakthrough drug discovery company that combines a novel computer vision platform with deep disease biology and chemistry.

March 9, 2023Greg Yap, Johnny Hu and Ph.D.
Our Investment in Typeface: Generative AI at Enterprise Speed and Scale

Since the advent of the internet, few technological advances have garnered as much attention and enthusiasm as quickly as generative AI.

February 27, 2023Matt Murphy and Derek Xiao
Building the Organizational Knowledge Graph: Our Series B Investment in Sana

There’s been a seismic shift in the environment for learning and training on the job.

December 13, 2022JP Sanday and Andreas Vandris
Investing in RelationalAI: Evolving the Modern Data Stack

RAI has created perhaps one of the most unique and powerful databases in the world.

April 26, 2022Tim Tully
AI for Contact Centers: Menlo’s Series C Investment in Observe.AI

We’re pleased to again invest in Observe.AI’s Series C round to fuel their next stage of development and product innovation.

April 12, 2022Steve Sloane
Why Menlo Ventures Invested in TruEra

Every company is a software company. Moreover, every company is now an AI/ML company.

March 28, 2022Tim Tully
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