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Our Investment in StackRox: A Simple Idea
The genesis stories of some of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley have started with a simple idea.
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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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MealPal Raises $20M to Expand Food Pick-Up Service
We are thrilled to announce that Menlo Ventures led the $20 million Series B in MealPal, the subscription service that makes meal pick-ups from…
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How Can America Win the Cyber War?
I had the opportunity yesterday to provide testimony to the Senate Commerce Committee on the promises and perils of emerging technologies for cybersecurity.
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Love in the Time of Breather: From Marriage Proposal to $40M Investment
We are thrilled to announce that Menlo Ventures is leading the $40 million Series C in Breather, the marquee network of on-demand meetings rooms…
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Brexit’s Impact on Silicon Valley
What is the actual financial impact of Brexit for early-stage technology companies in Silicon Valley? Zip, zilch, nada.
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Embracing the Bots: What’s New and Next in Messaging
Facebook’s announcement that its messenger platform will feature bots served as the crescendo for all of the recent excitement around conversational commerce.
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From Pilot to Production: Unravel and Waterline Weigh In
Menlo co-hosted an event with Unravel and Waterline to discuss how web-scale companies have internally built processes and controls for data management and operations.
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Who Moved My Goalposts?
Sixteen years of being a venture capitalist has taught me to embrace and adapt to change, but I have also learned that some principles…
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Breach Analytics: The Next Billion-Dollar Investment Opportunity
Based on the very nature and prevalence of today’s data breach incidents, most of which go undiscovered for many months, the promise of breach…
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10 Laws of Successful Marketplaces
It has many names: the Sharing Economy, Collaborative Consumption, the On-Demand Economy, and even most recently called by Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the Gig Economy.
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Taking Stock: Ranking the Next Billion-Dollar Cybersecurity Markets
This post originally appeared in the RSA Conference blog. With IT security spending estimated to crest the $75 billion annual mark before the end of…