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Anthropic logo
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 AI applications with its managed, cloud-native vector database and simple API.

Milestones
  • 2019 Founded
  • 2022 Partnered, Series A
Partner
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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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The Next $100B Cybersecurity Opportunity

AI represents the next critical inflection point—not merely an incremental improvement, but a fundamental transformation—of the cybersecurity landscape.

Menlo’s Investment in Graphite: Code Review for the AI Age
Tripling Down on Anthropic: Why We’re Excited to Continue Investing in the Leader in the Future of AI
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Beyond Human: The Next Frontier of Identity Security
Your AI Recruiter: Our Series A Investment in ConverzAI
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Why We Led Semgrep’s Series D Round: Putting Code Security on Autopilot
Dario Amodei and Matt Murphy fireside chat at Builder Day 2024
Unveiling the First Cohort of Anthology Fund-Backed AI Startups
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The Next Identity Crisis Is Non-Human: Our Investment in Astrix

Astrix is tackling the challenge of securing non-human identities head-on by addressing the full lifecycle of NHIs, ensuring that enterprises can automate confidently and securely.

Anthropic's Mike Krieger and Menlo Ventures Partner Matt Murphy

Highlights From AWS re:Invent 2024

At AWS re:Invent, we teamed up with our friends at Anthropic and AWS to host an unforgettable event for founders and innovators from across the tech ecosystem.

2024: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise
The New Cybersecurity Checklist: Five Things We Look for in AI-First Security Companies
Rewiring the Financial Data Graph: Our Series A Investment in Numeric
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$100M Anthology Fund 60-Day Update: A View Into AI Innovators
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AI Compensation Trends: The Real Cost of Top 1% AI Technical Talent

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.

AI cognitive architectures
AI Agents: A New Architecture for Enterprise Automation
AI agents at work
Beyond Bots: How AI Agents Are Driving the Next Wave of Enterprise Automation
The Next $100B Cybersecurity Opportunity

AI represents the next critical inflection point—not merely an incremental improvement, but a fundamental transformation—of the cybersecurity landscape.

March 19, 2025Venky Ganesan, Rama Sekhar, Feyza Haskaraman and Sam Borja
Menlo’s Investment in Graphite: Code Review for the AI Age

Today we’re excited to announce Menlo Ventures and the Anthology Fund’s investment in Graphite, an AI code review platform that helps engineering teams ship quality code faster.

March 18, 2025Rama Sekhar, Derek Xiao and C.C. Gong
Tripling Down on Anthropic: Why We’re Excited to Continue Investing in the Leader in the Future of AI

At Menlo Ventures, we are deeply committed to supporting the world’s most transformative AI companies.

March 3, 2025Matt Murphy
Beyond Human: The Next Frontier of Identity Security

While organizations fortify human accounts with multi-factor authentication and security training, a far larger army of digital workers operates in the shadows.

February 12, 2025Venky Ganesan, Rama Sekhar, Feyza Haskaraman and Sam Borja
Your AI Recruiter: Our Series A Investment in ConverzAI

ConverzAI accelerates staffing agencies’ time-to-fill by automating the entire staffing process, from source to placement, with their AI recruiter.

February 11, 2025Venky Ganesan and Sam Borja
Why We Led Semgrep’s Series D Round: Putting Code Security on Autopilot

Menlo Ventures is thrilled to partner with Semgrep in their mission to make security accessible and effective for all developers.

February 5, 2025Matt Murphy and Feyza Haskaraman
Unveiling the First Cohort of Anthology Fund-Backed AI Startups

When we launched the $100 million Anthology Fund in July with our partners at Anthropic, we set out to support cutting-edge AI startups pushing the boundaries of innovation.

December 18, 2024Matt Murphy, Tim Tully and Deedy Das
The Next Identity Crisis Is Non-Human: Our Investment in Astrix

Astrix is tackling the challenge of securing non-human identities head-on by addressing the full lifecycle of NHIs, ensuring that enterprises can automate confidently and securely.

December 10, 2024Rama Sekhar, Feyza Haskaraman and Sam Borja
Highlights From AWS re:Invent 2024

At AWS re:Invent, we teamed up with our friends at Anthropic and AWS to host an unforgettable event for founders and innovators from across the tech ecosystem.

December 4, 2024
2024: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise

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.

November 20, 2024Tim Tully, Joff Redfern and Derek Xiao
The New Cybersecurity Checklist: Five Things We Look for in AI-First Security Companies

At Menlo Ventures, we remain excited about the future of cybersecurity, particularly companies leading with AI innovation.

November 8, 2024Venky Ganesan, Rama Sekhar, Feyza Haskaraman and Sam Borja
Rewiring the Financial Data Graph: Our Series A Investment in Numeric

Numeric is the first company succeeding in building the financial graph that unifies disparate data silos, workflows, and subledgers.

October 10, 2024Croom Beatty, Andreas Vandris and Sam Borja
$100M Anthology Fund 60-Day Update: A View Into AI Innovators

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.

October 3, 2024Tim Tully, Matt Murphy and Deedy Das
AI Compensation Trends: The Real Cost of Top 1% AI Technical Talent

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.

October 2, 2024Jordan Ormont and Kandace Elam
AI Agents: A New Architecture for Enterprise Automation

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.

September 26, 2024Tim Tully, Joff Redfern, Deedy Das and Derek Xiao
Beyond Bots: How AI Agents Are Driving the Next Wave of Enterprise Automation

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.

September 26, 2024JP Sanday, Steve Sloane, Naomi Pilosof Ionita and Derek Xiao
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