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Neon Joins Databricks to Build the Future of AI Infrastructure Together
This acquisition underscores a profound market shift: Postgres is emerging as a core primitive for building AI applications.
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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…
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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…
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$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.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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Backing the Stack: Why Menlo Invested in Unstructured
We’re excited to partner closely with the team at Unstructured and are confident that they have firmly established themselves as the ETL leader for…
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The Modern AI Stack: Design Principles for the Future of Enterprise AI Architectures
The future of the modern AI stack is being decided now. More than ever, machines are capable of reasoning, creation, and creativity, and these…
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Menlo’s Investment in Neon: Serverless Postgres for Modern Workloads
Our rationale for investing in Neon was remarkably clear: Menlo had been on the hunt for a modern OLTP database with separation of storage…
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Pinecone Now Valued at $750M, Arguably the Most Important Element in the Modern Data Stack
Pinecone has raised a $100M Series B led by A16Z—with explosive growth justifying their new $750M valuation.
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Use Pinecone to See Which Parent Most Resembles Your Kids
In March, we announced our lead investment in the Series A for Pinecone, a semantic search database powered by vector embedding search.