We made a historic announcement at Sana AI Summit. Made all the more memorable with the backing of Ulf Kristersson Ulf Kristersson. Apply to the Swedish AI Reform now: lnkd.in/dw-tWrhD

🎉 Huge congrats to Nikita | Scaling Postgres and the entire Neon - Serverless Postgres on joining forces with Databricks! A powerful combo—bringing serverless Postgres and AI-native infrastructure together to shape the future of intelligent apps. For more on why Menlo's Tim Tully backed Neon early:

Great point made by Ethan Mollick at the Sana AI Summit last month. Adopt AI and go big, don’t just look for small efficiency gains. With AI you can boost productivity and output like never before.

AI is reshaping industries at warp speed—and Jean-Paul (JP) Sanday broke it down live at Web Summit Vancouver alongside Sapphire Ventures's cathy gao 🌙 & Insight Partners' George Matthew. “We’re storm chasers. We look for markets where there is a perfect storm that causes demand to explode—then back the teams

Amazing moment for the team at Chime!

Big shoutout to Jenny Wang and the Alta team 🎉 They're solving "what should I wear?" with AI that learns your closet and shows you what to wear next. Thrilled to support this bold vision in commerce and consumer AI. Led by Amy Wu Martin, more on why we're excited:

Welcome Alex Atallah Chris Clark & the OpenRouter team to the Menlo portfolio! We are proud to co-lead their $40M Series A alongside our friends at @A16Z to help scale the platform that’s become essential for developers: 400+ models, 2.5M+ users, and growing fast. Read more on

1 in 5 Americans use AI daily. We launched the most comprehensive survey on US consumer AI usage to-date Menlo Ventures. Some insights: - $12B+ in consumer AI spend, 81% toward general AI assistants today. - Only 3% pay for AI tools. We think that’ll continue to grow - 85% of

AI is increasingly becoming embedded in consumer life. General AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc) and specialized tools are being used across every category of daily life. AI’s momentum underscores a simple truth: People adopt new solutions when they help do things

A new cybersecurity market is forming—purpose-built for agentic systems. Traditional tools can’t secure autonomous agents that reason, act, and access systems without human oversight. Our market map outlines the key categories shaping security for agents. For more on todays

🚀 Welcome to the portfolio, Chai Discovery! Their Chai-2 model achieved a 100x improvement in antibody design. This is how you transform drug discovery. Thrilled to back this world-class team: Joshua Meier Jack Dent Matt McPartlon Jacques Boitreaud For more on why we invested👉

Business valuation is determined by 3 things: 1. FCF margins 2. Revenue growth durability 3. Dilution Gross margins is not one of them, but…it can be an indicator of #1 and #2.

Cheers to Anthropic on $13B Series F! We first invested in 2023: pre-product, pre-revenue, <$5B Now: Valued at $183B, $4.5B ARR, 300K+ customers, enterprise AI leader + our largest single investment in history! 🚀

Proud to have Deedy as a partner. We all learn from him every day and appreciate his expertise in all things AI!

Today marks a defining moment for Sana: We’ve entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Workday. Sana will continue to build Sana Agents and Sana Learn—only now, at an even faster pace and greater scale. I’ll continue to lead our incredible team. Over the past

Welcome Sabrina to the Menlo team! In just a few short weeks she has already made an impact and it has been a pleasure working with her!

We're thrilled to announce Derek Xiao's promotion to Principal! 🎉 Since 2022, he's helped drive marquee investments in Anthropic, Neon (acquired by Databricks), and Unstructured while co-authoring our State of GenAI reports. Derek brings deep technical insights to founders at

Congrats to Eve on its $103M, Series B announcement at a $1B+ valuation! Eve is redefining what it means to be an AI-Native law firm, already helping 450+ plaintiff firms deliver justice faster and more effectively. Proud to support the entire Eve team!