Artificial Intelligence

AI is breaking into every software category. That’s why we invest in early-stage companies, helping winners in these markets create massive economic and societal value.

What we do

Backing the Most Promising AI Companies

Our AI Companies

The founders we back don’t limit themselves to what is, but relentlessly pursue what could be. We invest in transformative, early-stage AI companies that are changing the way we live and work.

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

Milestones

  • 2021 – Founded
  • 2023 – Partnered, Series C

Leadership

Dario Amodei
Co-Founder & CEO
Daniela Amodei
Co-Founder & President

Partners

Pinecone
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

Leadership

Edo Liberty
Founder & CEO

Partners

Typeface
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

Leadership

Abhay Parasnis
Founder & CEO

Partners

Sana
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

Leadership

Joel Hellermark
Founder & CEO

Partners

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

Milestones

  • 2019 – Founded
  • 2020 – Partnered, Series A

Partners

Lindy
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

Leadership

Flo Crivello
Founder & CEO
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

Leadership

Swapnil Jain
Co-Founder & CEO

Menlo Invests at Every Layer of the Modern AI Stack

01

Applications

AI-powered end-user apps

02

Middleware

Developer tools to build and deploy
AI applications

03

Data + Infrastructure

Tools for productionizing LLMs: databases, compute, observability

04

Foundation Models

Core models that serve as the backbone to AI applications, pre-trained on large data sets

Our AI Investors

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Croom Beatty

Partner
AIFintechSaaS
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Sam Borja

Investor
AIInfrastructureSaaS
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Shawn Carolan

Partner
AIConsumerFintech

Ishika Chawla

Investor
AIInfrastructureSaaS
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Deedy Das

Principal
AIInfrastructureSaaS
Venky Ganesan, Partner, Menlo Ventures

Venky Ganesan

Partner
AICybersecurityInfrastructure
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C.C. Gong

Principal
AIConsumerSaaS
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Feyza Haskaraman

Principal
AICybersecuritySaaS
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Matt Kraning

Partner
AISaaSCybersecurity
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Amy Wu Martin

Partner
AIConsumer
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Matt Murphy

Partner
AISaaSInfrastructure
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Johnny Hu, Ph.D.

Principal
AIBio + Healthcare
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Joff Redfern

Partner
AISaaS
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JP Sanday

Partner
AISaaSBio + Healthcare
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Rama Sekhar

Partner
AICybersecurityInfrastructure
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Steve Sloane

Partner
AIFintechSupply Chain + Automation

Manoj Soundararajan

Investor
AIInfrastructureSaaS
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Tim Tully

Partner
AIInfrastructureCybersecurity
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Derek Xiao

Investor
AISaaSInfrastructure
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Greg Yap

Partner
AIBio + Healthcare

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