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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.

Rewiring the Financial Data Graph: Our Series A Investment in Numeric
$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
Beyond Bots: How AI Agents Are Driving the Next Wave of Enterprise Automation
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
Early-Stage Sales: Four Tips for Startups
Our Investment in Vilya: AI-Enabled Development of a New Class of Medicines
No Weak Links: Collaboration Will Strengthen the Supply Chain

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.

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Celebrating Axon’s Proposed Acquisition of Dedrone
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
Early-Stage Sales: Four Tips for Startups

Raph Parker is an advisor to companies on their $0 to $10 million ARR journey. Here are four of his most valuable GTM tips for navigating early-stage sales.

June 5, 2024Naomi Pilosof Ionita
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
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