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Today is a big day for Menlo Ventures as we’re adding our ninth partner, JP Sanday, who will focus on our Inflection Fund!
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Investing in Benchling: Software Accelerating Life Science Innovation
It’s rare to meet an entrepreneur who demonstrates both an incredible command of their business and such a clear vision of the magnitude of…
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Menlo Ventures’ Greg Yap Selected for Aspen Institute’s Health Innovators Fellowship
Today, the Aspen Institute announced its fifth class of Health Innovators Fellows, comprised of 21 healthcare leaders from across the industry with diverse expertise.
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Indio: The P&C Insurtech “Trifecta” That Inspired a Menlo Feeding Frenzy
At Menlo Ventures, our investment team likes to get creative with how we catalog companies we encounter in the wild.
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Mapping the World’s Homes in 3D: Improving on Home Improvement
On behalf of Menlo Ventures, I’m thrilled to announce our investment in HOVER, a startup using deep learning and computer vision to digitally map any…
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Solving One of IT’s Most Time-Consuming Tasks: Better Device Management With Fleetsmith
The challenge of managing a company’s entire collection of devices—a fleet of machines, if you will—is not trivial.
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Cheers to Chime: Finally, a Bank Consumers Can Love!
Today, we’d like to congratulate Chime on their $200 million fundraising round led by DST, with participation from Menlo Ventures, Cathay Innovation, Forerunner, and…
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The Shift to Collaborative Robots Means the Rise of Robotics as a Service
As e-commerce continues to expand, the demand for warehouse workers is growing faster than the labor supply and creating an increased need for automation.
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Menlo Ventures Launches the Menlo Inflection Fund
An inflection point is a decisive moment that marks the start of significant change. As startup investors, Menlo wants to drive that inflection.
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Nobody Cares About Your Big Idea
As an early-stage consumer VC with a laser focus for efficiency, few things make me wince more than meeting brilliant entrepreneurs devoted to building…
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Menlo Ventures Adds Houman Haghighi as Business Development Partner
Houman brings a rich set of qualities and interests that growing, early-stage companies will undoubtedly appreciate.
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Making the Workplace Work: Our Investment in Envoy
On behalf of Menlo Ventures, I’m thrilled to announce our investment and partnership with Larry Gadea and the Envoy team.