Menlo Ventures

Venture Capital

Profile

Founded
1976
Headquarters
Menlo Park, US
Investments
42
Companies
17

Capital

Total Deployed
$42.1B
Lead Rounds
15

Portfolio

17 companies
Anthropic $48.4B
Private San Francisco, US

AI safety company and maker of Claude AI models

Uber $13.2B
Public San Francisco, US

Global ride-hailing, food delivery, and freight technology platform operating in over 70 countries, connecting riders with drivers and eaters with restaurants through its app.

Skild AI $1.8B
Private Pittsburgh, US

Skild AI develops generalist foundation models for robotics and physical-world AI intelligence, enabling robots to perform a wide range of tasks through embodied AI.

Carta $1.2B
Private San Francisco, United States

Carta is an ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership. The company provides cap table management, 409A valuations, fund administration, and equity plan management, serving over 35,000 startups and 200+ venture funds.

Benchling $412M
Private San Francisco, US

Benchling is a cloud-based life sciences R&D platform that helps biotech and pharmaceutical companies manage experiments, track data, and accelerate research and development. The platform replaces physical lab notebooks and spreadsheets with collaborative, AI-ready digital tools used by over 1,200 customers worldwide.

Signifyd $409M
Private San Jose, United States

Signifyd provides a Commerce Protection Platform that uses machine learning and large-scale data network effects to provide guaranteed fraud protection for e-commerce merchants. The platform automates order decisions with a financial guarantee against chargebacks, enabling merchants to maximize revenue while minimizing fraud losses. Signifyd's network processes billions of transactions from thousands of merchants worldwide.

Function Health $354M
Private Austin, United States

Function Health is a membership-based preventive health platform that gives consumers access to 100+ lab tests, AI-generated health reports, and optional full-body MRI and CT scans. Co-founded by Dr. Mark Hyman and Jonathan Swerdlin, the Austin-based company aims to shift healthcare from reactive to proactive by empowering people with comprehensive testing and personalized insights at scale.

ShipBob $331M
Private Chicago, US

ShipBob is a global e-commerce fulfillment and logistics platform that provides small and medium-sized businesses with Amazon-level supply chain capabilities. The company operates a network of fulfillment centers across the US, UK, EU, Canada, and Australia, offering warehousing, picking, packing, and shipping services powered by proprietary software.

Everlaw $299M
Private Oakland, California, United States

Cloud-native e-discovery and litigation platform that helps legal teams collaboratively discover, reveal, and act on information for investigations and litigation. Used by all 50 U.S. state attorneys general, major corporations, and eight of the top 10 class-action law firms.

Machine Zone $263M
Acquired Palo Alto, US

Mobile gaming company best known for Game of War: Fire Age, Mobile Strike, and Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire, which collectively generated over $5 billion in revenue. Originally founded as Addmired and a Y Combinator W08 graduate, the company pioneered real-time massively multiplayer mobile gaming.

Heap $205M
Acquired San Francisco, US

Heap is a digital insights platform that automatically captures every user interaction on websites and mobile apps, including clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, and page views, without requiring manual tracking code. Unlike traditional analytics tools that require engineers to instrument events upfront, Heap retroactively analyzes user behavior from day one. The platform served over 10,000 companies including Twilio, Zendesk, and Liberty Mutual. Acquired by Contentsquare in December 2023.

Netlify $202M
Private San Francisco, United States

Netlify is a web development platform that provides hosting, continuous deployment, and serverless backend services for modern web projects. The company pioneered the Jamstack architecture, enabling developers to build faster, more secure websites.

Envoy $201M
Private San Francisco, California, United States

Workplace management platform that helps companies welcome visitors, manage employee attendance, book desks and conference rooms, and handle deliveries. Originally an iPad-based visitor sign-in system, the company evolved into a full workplace platform serving over 16,000 locations globally.

Fivestars $145M
Acquired

Customer loyalty, marketing automation, and payments platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Fivestars replaced paper punch cards with digital loyalty programs, serving over 12,000 local businesses with 70 million consumer members, processing $3B in annual sales. Founded by two ex-McKinsey consultants who saw that large companies spent millions on loyalty programs while small businesses were completely underserved.

Pinecone $138M
Private New York, United States

Pinecone is the leading vector database platform for building accurate, performant AI applications at scale. Founded by former AWS Director of Research Edo Liberty, the company provides a fully managed, serverless infrastructure that makes it easy to connect enterprise data with large language models and other AI systems.

Clerk $105M
Private San Francisco, United States

Clerk provides a complete suite of embeddable authentication UIs, flexible APIs, and admin dashboards for user management. The platform handles sign-up, sign-in, multi-factor authentication, organization management, and session handling, allowing developers to add secure auth to their applications in minutes instead of months. Clerk integrates natively with Next.js, React, and other popular frameworks.

NationGraph $23M
Private San Francisco, US

AI-native intelligence platform helping businesses navigate and win government contracts. Makes public sector data accessible and actionable across 110,000+ agencies (cities, counties, state agencies, schools, special districts). Provides predictive intelligence on government purchasing decisions and automates public record requests at scale.

Investment data is compiled from multiple independent sources including company announcements, press coverage, and regulatory filings. While we strive for accuracy, amounts and dates may reflect reported figures at time of announcement.