Cybersecurity
Portfolio spotlight


Abnormal Security is an integrated email security solution for the cloud office, detecting the whole spectrum of email attacks, from vendor compromise and spear-phishing to unwanted spam and graymail.
Milestones
- 2018 → Founded
- 2020 → Partnered, Series B
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BitSight Technologies is transforming how companies manage information security risk with objective, evidence-based security ratings.
Milestones
- 2011 → Founded
- 2013 → Partnered, Series A
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Cequence is an API security platform that unifies API visibility and risk assessment with native, enterprise-grade attack and vulnerability protection.
Milestones
- 2014 → Founded
- 2021 → Partnered, Series C
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IronPort developed email and web security tools to protect organizations from spam, viruses, malware, and other internet threats.
Milestones
- 2000 → Founded
- 2002 → Partnered, Series B
- 2007 → Acquired by Cisco
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Obsidian aggregates, normalizes, and enriches user activity, access, and privilege data across SaaS applications to help organizations identify potential account compromise, data leakage, or insider threats.
Milestones
- 2017 → Founded
- 2022 → Partnered, Series C
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Signifyd is the world’s largest provider of guaranteed fraud protection, protecting online retailers against fraud and chargebacks with a 100% financial guarantee for every approved order.
Milestones
- 2011 → Founded
- 2016 → Partnered, Series B
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StackRox is a Kubernetes-native security platform for cloud-native applications, containers, serverless, and Kubernetes
Milestones
- 2014 → Founded
- 2020 → Partnered, Series B
- 2021 → Acquired by Red Hat
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Strata is pioneering distributed identity orchestration, enabling enterprises to seamlessly unify on-premises and cloud-based authentication and access systems for consistent identity management in multi-cloud environments.
Milestones
- 2019 → Founded
- 2020 → Partnered, Series A
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Our perspective
Menlo Ventures is thrilled to partner with Semgrep in their mission to make security accessible and effective for all developers.
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.
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.
At Menlo Ventures, we remain excited about the future of cybersecurity, particularly companies leading with AI innovation.
Today, we mark a significant milestone as we congratulate airspace security pioneer Dedrone on its agreement to be acquired by Axon.
Mimic is a next-gen anti-ransomware solution built for the enterprise—a category-defining technology responding to increasingly urgent market demands.
Generative AI is a powerful technology in the hands of both good and bad actors. While cybercriminals can use GenAI to complicate and expand existing threats, it’s also an incredible defensive technology.
In the race to adopt generative AI, every enterprise grapples with a common concern: security.
Menlo believes that the new AI and cybersecurity stacks represent the biggest investment opportunities of the decade, and Rama will help us double down on both.
The long chain of code, library, and package dependencies and third-party tooling employed during the software development lifecycle comprise the modern software supply chain.
The public cloud markets may have been dreary outside last week, but under the soaring skylight of Moscone Center in San Francisco—host to this year’s RSA Conference, one of the cybersecurity industry’s largest annual gatherings—the convention floor was pulsing with excitement.
As we consider the post-COVID economy, we reflect on previous recessions to inform our predictions about how various asset classes and business models might perform.
Abnormal Security reached a major milestone today: The four-year-old company is now valued at $4 billion after raising $210 million in Series C funding.
Business today lives in SaaS applications. In fact, the average enterprise organization uses no less than 150 separate SaaS applications.
As companies go digital, the use of application programming interfaces (APIs) is exploding.
We surveyed 30 CIOs from leading companies across various industries to understand their priorities, where they’re investing in technology and how the pandemic influenced their business for the long term.