Partner
Matt Murphy
AI
SaaS
Infrastructure
Robotics + Hardware
Matt is a partner at Menlo Ventures and invests multi-stage across AI infrastructure (DevOps, data stack, middleware, API platforms), AI-first SaaS (vertical and horizontal), and robotics. Since joining Menlo in 2015, Matt has led active investments in Anthropic, Alloy.AI, Benchling, Canvas, Clarifai, Cleanlab, Carta, Envoy, FireHydrant, Harness, HOVER, Mimic, Netlify, Observable, Openrouter, Relyance.ai, Semgrep, Skild, True Anomaly, Vivun, and Zylo. He formerly served on the boards of Airbase (acquired by Paylocity), Heap Analytics (acquired by Contentsquare), 6 River Systems (acquired by Shopify), Scout RFP (acquired by Workday), Usermind (acquired by Qualtrics), and Veriflow (acquired by VMware),
Previously, Matt was a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for 15 years. He was an observer at Google (from initial investment to IPO), launched the $200M iFund in ’08 (a collaborative initiative with Apple to back defining iOS apps), sourced the firm’s investment in DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU), and led investments in Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST), AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B), Egnyte (acquired by GI and TA), Datastax (acquired by IBM), Puppet (acquired by Perforce), Simplivity (acquired by HPE for $650M), PernixData (acquired by Nutanix ), SessionM (acquired by Mastercard), Drawbridge (acquired by LinkedIn), Shazam (acquired by Apple), Shopkick (acquired by SK Planet), Noom (exited by secondary), Aerohive Networks (NASDAQ: HIVE), Ocarina Networks (acquired by Dell), and AutoNavi (NASDAQ: AMAP).
Before joining Kleiner Perkins, Matt worked at data networking startup Netboost (acquired by Intel), where he led product management; and, prior to that, at Sun Microsystems, where he led business development for the Network Systems Group and was a product line manager for networking platforms. Matt holds a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Tufts University and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He serves as the co-chair of the Stanford University Engineering Venture Fund.
Supported by: Dominique Guevara, [email protected]
Investment Portfolio
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Milestones
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2021 - Founded
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2023 - Partnered, Series C
Leadership
Dario Amodei
Co-Founder & CEO
Daniela Amodei
Co-Founder & President
Partners
Benchling is a life sciences R&D cloud platform helping the next generation of scientists make breakthrough discoveries faster than ever before.
Milestones
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2012 - Founded
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2019 - Partnered, Series C
Leadership
Saji Wickramasekara
Co-Founder & CEO
Ashu Singhal
Co-Founder & President
Partners
Carta is a software platform for founders, investors, and employees to manage cap tables, equity, and ownership.
Milestones
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2012 - Founded
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2017 - Partnered, Series C
Leadership
Henry Ward
Co-Founder & CEO
Partners
Harness’ Continuous-Delivery-as-a-Service platform enables every software engineering team in the world to deliver code reliably, efficiently and quickly to their users.
Milestones
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2016 - Founded
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2017 - Partnered, Series A
Leadership
Jyoti Bansal
Co-Founder & CEO
Partners
Hover transforms smartphone photos of any property into an accurate, interactive 3D model, giving homeowners the power to unlock the true potential of their largest economic asset.
Milestones
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2011 - Founded
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2019 - Partnered, Series C
Partners
Scout RFP provides cloud-based strategic sourcing solutions that help companies streamline supplier selection, centralize data, and make more informed purchasing decisions, faster.
Milestones
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2013 - Founded
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2017 - Partnered, Series A
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2019 - Acquired by Workday
Partners
True Anomaly is a deep technology company developing advanced hardware and software systems to ensure the sustainable security of space.
Milestones
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2022 - Founded
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2023 - Partnered, Series B
Leadership
Even Rogers
Co-Founder & CEO
Tom Nichols
Co-Founder & CPO
Kyle Zakrzewski
Co-Founder & Chief Engineer
Partners
Typeface is an enterprise-grade generative AI app to create engaging, personalized content faster and easier than ever before.
Milestones
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2022 - Founded
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2023 - Partnered, Series A
Leadership
Abhay Parasnis
Founder & CEO
Partners
6 River Systems
6 River Systems is a fulfillment solutions provider making warehouses more efficient with autonomous mobile robots and AI.
Acquired by Shopify
Airbase
Airbase is a spend management platform for small and midsize companies. It automates accounting and operational workflows for a faster close, real-time reporting, and a consistent platform experience for all non-payroll spend.
Acquired by Paylocity
Alloy
Alloy is an intelligent supply and demand synchronization platform purpose-built for companies that make, move, and sell goods.
Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
AppDynamics
AppDynamics provides a full-stack application performance management (APM) and IT operations analytics (ITOA) platform.
Acquired by Cisco
AutoNavi
AutoNavi is a Chinese web mapping, navigation, and location-based services provider.
NASDAQ: AMAP
Benchling
Benchling is a life sciences R&D cloud platform helping the next generation of scientists make breakthrough discoveries faster than ever before.
Canvas
Canvas is a construction robotics company that uses machine learning to install drywall at construction sites.
Carta
Carta is a software platform for founders, investors, and employees to manage cap tables, equity, and ownership.
Clarifai
Clarifai is an artificial intelligence company that excels in visual recognition, solving real-world problems for businesses and developers alike.
Cleanlab
Cleanlab provides no-code, automated data curation for LLMs and the modern AI stack.
DataStax
DataStax is scale-out NoSQL built on Apache Cassandra™. Handle any workload with zero downtime, zero lock-in and at global scale.
DocuSign
DocuSign helps organizations connect and automate how they prepare, sign, act on, and manage agreements.
NASDAQ: DOCU
Drawbridge
Drawbridge used artificial intelligence to learn more about customers and target audiences.
Acquired by LinkedIn
Earli
Earli’s mission is to make cancer a benign experience, by catching and curing it early.
Egnyte
Egnyte provides secure enterprise file sharing, intelligent content services, and collaboration solutions.
Envoy
From visitors to meeting rooms, Envoy is redefining how people, places, and technology work together with desk booking, schedule sharing, health checks, and more.
Finch
Finch allows applications to access data and make changes across payroll and HR systems through a single API.
FireHydrant
FireHydrant builds tools that modern operations teams are using to respond to complex problems in their globally distributed applications.
Harness
Harness’ Continuous-Delivery-as-a-Service platform enables every software engineering team in the world to deliver code reliably, efficiently and quickly to their users.
Heap
Heap is a digital insights platform that combines quantitative and qualitative analytics for a 360º degree view of your customer journey.
Acquired by Contentsquare
Hover
Hover transforms smartphone photos of any property into an accurate, interactive 3D model, giving homeowners the power to unlock the true potential of their largest economic asset.
Levelpath
Levelpath is a next-gen procurement platform with an AI- and mobile-first approach that streamlines workflows and approvals for enterprises of all sizes.
Mimic
Mimic is the first enterprise defense system specifically designed to combat ransomware and cyber extortion.
Netlify
Netlify is an all-in-one platform for automating modern web projects at global scale—without servers, devops, or costly infrastructure.
New Lantern
New Lantern accelerates radiology with cloud- and AI-powered medical image analysis.
Observable
Observable is a web-based platform for data visualization, exploration, socialization, publication and collaboration.
OpenRouter
OpenRouter is a unified API gateway that provides access to hundreds of AI models from leading providers like Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, and more.
PernixData
PernixData was a premier software platform for scale-out storage acceleration.
Acquired by Nutanix
Puppet
Puppet automates the delivery and operation of the software that powers some of the biggest brands in the world.
Acquired by Perforce
Relyance AI
Relyance AI is the most comprehensive trust and data governance platform that automates privacy compliance, data security posture, and AI governance operations.
Scout RFP
Scout RFP provides cloud-based strategic sourcing solutions that help companies streamline supplier selection, centralize data, and make more informed purchasing decisions, faster.
Acquired by Workday
Semgrep
Semgrep is an AppSec platform for securing cloud-native apps—fast, accurate, and developer-friendly.
SessionM
SessionM’s customer engagement and loyalty platform empowers the world’s most innovative brands—including retailers, airlines, restaurants and CPG companies—to forge stronger and more profitable consumer relationships.
Acquired by Mastercard
Shazam
Shazam is a smartphone app that can identify music, movies, advertising, and television shows based on a short audio sample.
Acquired by Apple
Shopkick
Shopkick is a shopping app that offers users rewards for shopping activities both online and in store, such as entering stores, scanning items, making purchases, and submitting receipts.
Acquired by SK Planet
SimpliVity
SimpliVity provides a hyper-converged infrastructure that accelerates the deployment of resources and workloads.
Acquired by Hewlett-Packard
Skild AI
Skild is building general purpose artificial intelligence grounded in the physical world.
True Anomaly
True Anomaly is a deep technology company developing advanced hardware and software systems to ensure the sustainable security of space.
Turing
Turing delivers top-tier talent, data, and tools to help AI labs improve model performance—and enables enterprises to turn those models into powerful, production-ready systems.
Typeface
Typeface is an enterprise-grade generative AI app to create engaging, personalized content faster and easier than ever before.
Upstart
Upstart is an AI lending platform that partners with banks and credit unions to provide consumer loans using non-traditional variables, such as education and employment, to predict creditworthiness.
NASDAQ: UPST
Usermind
Usermind provides the first unified platform for automating and orchestrating business operations (BizOps). With Usermind, companies can define and automate all aspects of their customer lifecycles to improve revenue, retention, and profitability.
Acquired by Qualtrics
Veriflow
Veriflow brought formal verification to network infrastructure for the first time. Veriflow predicted outages before they impacted the business, and vulnerabilities before they were exploited, allowing IT teams to operate secure and resilient networks.
Acquired by VMware
Vivun
Hero by Vivun is the world’s first AI-powered platform for presales leadership, unleashing their strategic potential and creating a seamless interlock between sales and product.
Zylo
Zylo is the enterprise SaaS management and optimization platform that unlocks the full potential of SaaS for buyers, suppliers, and users.
