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

Milestones
  • 2019 Founded
  • 2020 Partnered, Series A
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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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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.

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
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Beyond Bots: How AI Agents Are Driving the Next Wave of Enterprise Automation
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AI Agents: A New Architecture for Enterprise Automation

Anthology Fund

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.

Reimagining Smart Car Repair: Our Investment in Kinetic

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.

Welcoming Our Newest Consumer Investor, C.C. Gong
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Our Investment in Vilya: AI-Enabled Development of a New Class of Medicines
No Weak Links: Collaboration Will Strengthen the Supply Chain
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Five Steps for How GenAI Startups Can Break into the Enterprise: Observe.AI’s Playbook
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Celebrating Axon’s Proposed Acquisition of Dedrone

Today, we mark a significant milestone as we congratulate airspace security pioneer Dedrone on its agreement to be acquired by Axon.

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7 Golden Rules for Generative AI Apps: A Playbook from Early Winners
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Menlo Welcomes New AI Infrastructure Investor Deedy Das
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
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
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
Anthology Fund

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.

July 17, 2024Matt Murphy and Tim Tully
Reimagining Smart Car Repair: Our Investment in Kinetic

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.

June 20, 2024Shawn Carolan, Sam Borja and Andreas Vandris
Welcoming Our Newest Consumer Investor, C.C. Gong

C.C. joins us as a principal, focused on AI applications for consumer and enterprise and broader consumer tech.

June 6, 2024Shawn Carolan and Amy Wu Martin
Our Investment in Vilya: AI-Enabled Development of a New Class of Medicines

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.

June 4, 2024Johnny Hu, Ph.D. and Greg Yap
No Weak Links: Collaboration Will Strengthen the Supply Chain

With supply chain companies increasingly recognizing the advantages of shared data and optimized workflows, a new era of collaboration is on the horizon.

May 29, 2024Steve Sloane and Feyza Haskaraman
Five Steps for How GenAI Startups Can Break into the Enterprise: Observe.AI’s Playbook

Observe’s success in moving to the enterprise provides a playbook for both startups and enterprises on how to leverage GenAI to win together.

May 16, 2024Steve Sloane
Celebrating Axon’s Proposed Acquisition of Dedrone

Today, we mark a significant milestone as we congratulate airspace security pioneer Dedrone on its agreement to be acquired by Axon.

May 6, 2024Venky Ganesan
7 Golden Rules for Generative AI Apps: A Playbook from Early Winners

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.

April 17, 2024Matt Murphy, Steve Sloane and Derek Xiao
Menlo Welcomes New AI Infrastructure Investor Deedy Das

Deedy joins us as a principal, focused on early-stage investments in AI/ML, next-generation infrastructure, and enterprise software.

March 14, 2024Tim Tully
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