Partner
Tim Tully
AIInfrastructureCybersecurity
Tim is a partner at Menlo Ventures focused on early-stage investments that speak to his passion for AI/ML, the new data stack, and the next-generation cloud. His background as a technology builder, buyer, and seller informs his investments in companies like Pinecone, Neon, Edge Delta, JuliaHub, TruEra, ClearVector, Squint, and RelationalAI, among others, and makes him a sought-after advisor.
Over his career, Tim has partnered with countless individuals who have pushed the technical and creative envelope. A technologist and developer at heart, he has deep technical knowledge and years of in-the-trenches, hands-on experience developing and managing teams that will be helpful to many entrepreneurs as they navigate finding their product-market fit and growing their companies. His many years as an operator driving go-to-market execution provide a unique and rare blend of technical depth, large-scale management experience, and sales expertise.
Before joining Menlo, Tim was CTO of Splunk and oversaw the company’s transition to the cloud. While leading product, engineering, IT, and security, he significantly scaled the organization, tripling its product team from 600 to 1,800 in less than three years. He helped the company more than double its sales revenue from $950 million in 2017 to $2.25 billion in 2020, increasing Splunk’s market cap to nearly $25 billion. He was also responsible for 10 of Splunk’s acquisitions (SignalFx, Omnition, Phantom Cyber, Victorops, Streamlio, Plumbr, Flowmill, Rigor, Rocana, and SignalSense), incubated the Databricks team, and worked with Splunk’s venture capital arm.
Prior to Splunk, Tim spent over a decade in various technical roles at Yahoo!, Sun Microsystems, and several startups. At Yahoo!, he rose from a data engineer to Chief Data Architect and worked closely on several important open source projects including the internal systems that led to Hadoop. He led engineering across Yahoo Media, shaping products used around the world, including Yahoo.com, Yahoo Finance, Fantasy Sports, Tumblr and more.
Tim holds an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. from the University of California, Davis. In his spare time, he continues to code recreationally. He regularly participates in hackathons and will soon teach a vector database course with Andrew Ng on https://deeplearning.ai.
Supported by: Mauricia Savella, [email protected]
Investment Portfolio
Pinecone makes it easy to build high-performance AI applications with its managed, cloud-native vector database and simple API.
Milestones
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2019 - Founded
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2022 - Partnered, Series A
Leadership
Edo Liberty
Founder & CEO
Partners
Neon is a multi-cloud Serverless Postgres provider that is purpose-built to address modern workloads oriented around edge computing and AI.
Milestones
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2021 - Founded
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2023 - Partnered, Series B
Leadership
Nikita Shamgunov
Co-Founder & CEO
Heikki Linnakangas
Co-Founder
Stas Kelvich
Co-Founder
Partners
Unstructured transforms organizations’ complex, unstructured data like PDFs, PPTX, HTML files, and more into formats compatible with LLMs so employees can chat with their internal data.
Milestones
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2022 - Founded
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2024 - Partnered, Series B
Leadership
Brian Raymond
Founder & CEO
Partners
Edge Delta is an automated observability platform that gives enterprises distributed stream processing, federated machine learning, and intelligent data pipeline capabilities.
Milestones
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2018 - Founded
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2021 - Partnered, Series A
Partners
TruEra provides AI quality management software solutions that address performance, explainability, and fairness across the full ML model lifecycle, from development to live use.
Milestones
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2019 - Founded
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2021 - Partnered, Series B
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2024 - Acquired by Snowflake
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Squint is the leading manufacturing intelligence platform for capturing tribal knowledge, enforcing standard work, and analyzing rich insights—all on a platform operators love.
Milestones
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2021 - Co-founded
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2022 - Pre-Seed
Leadership
Devin Bhushan
Founder & CEO
Dylan Conway
Founding Product Lead
Jim Zhu
Founding Engineering Lead
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ClearVector’s identity-focused, real-time platform allows organizations to proactively fight cyberattacks in their AWS environment.
Milestones
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2020 - Founded
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2022 - Partnered, Seed
Leadership
John Laliberte
Founder & CEO
Partners
RelationalAI is a next-generation database system for intelligent data applications based on relational knowledge graphs.
Milestones
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2017 - Founded
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2021 - Partnered, Series A
Partners
ClearVector
ClearVector’s identity-focused, real-time platform allows organizations to proactively fight cyberattacks in their AWS environment.
Crogl
Crogl is a fully autonomous and completely private AI SOC analyst, working on security alerts and threat hunts using the tools your analysts use. No coding, playbooks, or schema normalization required.
Edge Delta
Edge Delta is an automated observability platform that gives enterprises distributed stream processing, federated machine learning, and intelligent data pipeline capabilities.
Eve
Eve is the industry’s first personalized AI assistant for the legal industry.
Goodfire
Goodfire is an applied research lab building AI interpretability tools.
JuliaHub
JuliaHub offers products that make the Julia programming language easy to use, deploy, and scale.
Neon
Neon is a multi-cloud Serverless Postgres provider that is purpose-built to address modern workloads oriented around edge computing and AI.
Pinecone
Pinecone makes it easy to build high-performance AI applications with its managed, cloud-native vector database and simple API.
Questa
Questa applies breakthroughs in AI to enterprise data, making it easy for teams to query, visualize, and take action on their data without SQL.
RelationalAI
RelationalAI is a next-generation database system for intelligent data applications based on relational knowledge graphs.
Squint
Squint is the leading manufacturing intelligence platform for capturing tribal knowledge, enforcing standard work, and analyzing rich insights—all on a platform operators love.
TruEra
TruEra provides AI quality management software solutions that address performance, explainability, and fairness across the full ML model lifecycle, from development to live use.
Acquired by Snowflake
Unstructured
Unstructured transforms organizations’ complex, unstructured data like PDFs, PPTX, HTML files, and more into formats compatible with LLMs so employees can chat with their internal data.
