Menlo Ventures — 2021 Investments
30 investments dated 2021 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all
Scribe is a molecular engineering company developing CRISPR-based genetic therapies to treat cardiometabolic disease and other conditions.
BiotechDeep TechHealthtechMedical DevicesBerkeley, US
Benjamin Oakes(Founder)inJennifer A. Doudna, PhD(Co-founder, Scientific Advisor)Benjamin L. Oakes, PhD(Co-founder, President and CEO)David F. Savage, PhD(Co-founder, Scientific Advisor)Brett Staahl, PhD(Co-founder, VP of External Innovation)Brett Staahl(Founder)
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzOrbiMedAvoro Capital AdvisorsRA CapitalWellington Management
Ophelia provides medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction through a telemedicine platform, allowing patients to receive care without attending residential rehab.
Digital HealthHealthtechWellness & FitnessNew York City, US
Mattan Griffel(Founder)inZack Gray(Founder)inDr. Arthur Robin Williams(Codesigner)Jake Goldman(Product Lead)Ryan Greenberg(Director of Engineering)Rose Sinclair(Recruiter)
Board seatGreg Yap· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsY CombinatorFour Acres CapitalGeneral CatalystGood FriendsInterplay Ventures Early Stage Management Llc640 Oxford+6 more
Netlify is a platform for building, deploying, and scaling modern web applications, serving millions of developers and thousands of enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US
Mathias Biilmann(Founder)inChristian Bach(Founder)inChris Bach(Founder)Matt Biilmann(Founder)
PartnerMatt Murphy· led
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzBessemer Venture PartnersBloomberg BetaDesigner FundKleiner PerkinsEQT Ventures+9 more
Prodigal builds AI-powered applications for consumer finance servicing and collections, enabling lenders and collection agencies to automate workflows and personalize customer interactions.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Shantanu Gangal(Founder)inSangram Raje(Founder)inSaransh Garg(Founder)Neil Shah(Chief of Staff)Smeet Bhatt(Growth)Mayank Agarwal(Engineering)
PartnerCroom Beatty· led
Co-investorsAccelY CombinatorMGV.VCCypher CapitalMenloMGV
Vareto is a data platform that consolidates financial and operational data from multiple sources to enable faster, data-driven business decision-making.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintech
Kat Orekhova(Co-founder & CEO)inNihar Nanda(Founder)Nilendu Misra(Founder)
Co-investorsFOG VenturesGV (Google Ventures)
Drata offers a compliance automation platform that centralizes controls and evidence, continuously monitors controls, and tracks remediation so teams can maintain audit readiness across multiple frameworks.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Diego, US
Adam Markowitz(Founder)inDaniel Marashlian(Founder)inTroy Markowitz(Founder)in
BoardTim Jackson(Director)William Griffith(Director)Oren Yunger(Director)in
Board seatHouman Haghighi· per SEC Form D · $3.2M raise · filed Jan 2021
Co-investorsAAF Management Ltd.Alkeon InnovationBallistic VenturesBasis Set VenturesComcast VenturesConverge+20 more
Edge Delta provides telemetry pipeline and observability tools for DevOps, IT/Ops, SRE, and Security teams to process logs, metrics, traces, and events at scale without centralizing all raw data.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSeattle, US
Ozan Unlu(Founder)inFatih Yildiz(Founder)in
Board seatTim Tully· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsAmity VenturesCisco InvestmentsGeodesic CapitalKin VenturesMaC Venture CapitalBAM Elevate+3 more
Carputty offers digital auto financing for U.S. car buyers, providing fixed-rate single-vehicle loans through a lending partner along with tools to track and predict vehicle value over time.
FintechMobility & TransportationSaaSAtlanta, US
J. Patrick Bayliss(President and CEO)in
BoardMichael Tannenbaum(Resigned as a Director 7/16/2021)
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesFontinalis PartnersGrand VenturesKickstartKinetic Ventures, L.L.C.Porsche Ventures+1 more
Cequence is an AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform that automates manual contract tasks and workflows while providing compliance tracking and analytics for enterprises of all sizes.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaS
Rasto Koval(Co-Founder & CEO)inPeter Banda(Co-Founder & CSO)inMartin Ragan(Co-Founder & CRO)inMartin Razus(Co-Founder & CTO)in
Co-investorsDell Technologies CapitalLook AI VenturesTitanium VenturesTraun VenturesVision VenturesHarbourVest Partners (Canada)+3 more
Cequence provides a security platform for protecting applications and APIs from automated attacks, bots, and fraud, including API discovery, testing, posture management, WAF, and DDoS protection.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Ameya Talwalkar(Founder)inShreyans Mehta(Chief Technology Officer & Founder)in
Co-investorsCerity Partners VenturesDell Technologies CapitalDniproIcon VenturesKPN VenturesMonta Vista Capital+4 more
CloudTrucks provides a platform that connects independent truck owner-operators to a network of carriers for freight shipping, handling compliance and cash flow management.
Logistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Tobenna Arodiogbu(Founder)inJin Shieh(Founder)inGeorge Ezenna(Founder)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesATEL VenturesBetter Tomorrow VenturesCraft VenturesHalf Court VenturesHumba Ventures+5 more
CodeSignal provides an educational ebook guide for talent teams on implementing AI hiring tools, covering readiness assessment, solution selection, and compliant usage practices.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechHR TechSan Francisco, US
Aram Shatakhtsyan(Founder)inTigran Sloyan(Founder)inFelix Desroches(Founder)
Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesAlumni VenturesCM VenturesCorrelation VenturesFJ LabsFormula VC+4 more
Earli develops a biotechnology platform that uses genetic constructs to detect cancer and produce therapeutic proteins by reprogramming cancer cells.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechHealthtechMedical DevicesSouth San Francisco, US
Dr. Sam Gambhir(Founder)Cyriac Roeding(Founder)inDr. David Suhy(Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer)
BoardJustin Kao(Director)inJorge Conde(Director)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesAndreessen HorowitzBlue Ivy VenturesBreyer CapitalGaingelsHan River Partners+6 more
Endgame provided an endpoint protection platform for detecting and preventing advanced threats, with roots in serving U.S. government and defense customers.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareArlington, US
Mark Snell(Executive Officer)Nathaniel C. Fick(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardDavid Cowan(Director)inChris Darby(Director)Kenneth A. Minihan(Director)Thomas E. Noonan(Director)
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersBessemer Venture PartnersColumbia CapitalGray VenturesKleiner PerkinsMultiplier Capital+13 more
Jamstack builds audio hardware for musicians, including an attachable smartphone amplifier, with a focus on making playing, creating, and consuming music more accessible and social.
ConsumerCreator EconomyHardwareMedia & Entertainment
Chris Prendergast(Founder and CEO)
Co-investorsGeorgian Angel NetworkAndreessen HorowitzBessemer Venture PartnersBond Capital ManagementEQT VenturesInsight Partners+3 more
Dyad is an AI agent and declarative language for physics-based modeling and simulation, letting engineers describe systems in natural language so the agent researches formulations, derives equations, assembles components, runs simulations, and validates physics.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareBoston, US
Keno Fischer(Co-founder)inDr. Viral Shah(Co-Founder & CEO)Deepak Vinchhi(Co-founder)inStefan Karpinski(Co-founder)inDr. Jeff Bezanson(Co-Founder & CTO)Prof. Alan Edelman(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)
Co-investorsGeneral CatalystIn-Q-TelFounder CollectiveHighsage Ventures
BrazeAI Decisioning Studio is an AI platform that helps marketers make personalized 1:1 customer decisions by optimizing channel, offer, creative, and timing across hundreds of customer attributes.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechBoston, US
George Khachatryan(Founder)Victor Kostyuk(Founder)
BoardMike Ghaffary(Director)in
Co-investors515 VenturesAfterWork VenturesAlumni VenturesBlack Nova VCCanvas VenturesCarbide Ventures+4 more
A GraphQL API platform that unifies access to multiple third-party services including social networks, development tools, and payment processors through a single interface.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Sean Grove(Founder)inDaniel Woelfel(Founder)in
Co-investorsDig Ventures Management LimitedY CombinatorAndreessen HorowitzBessemer Venture PartnersBond Capital ManagementEQT Ventures+4 more
Photomath is a mobile app that provides step-by-step math tutoring and explanations to help students understand math concepts.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerEdTech
Damir Sabol(Founder)
Co-investorsCherubic VenturesGSV VenturesNimble PartnersGoodwater CapitalLearn CapitalMenlo
Scale provides high-quality training data, model evaluations, and full-stack AI systems for enterprises and governments to build and deploy AI applications.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Alexandr Wang(CEO)inLucy Guo(Founder)inFrancis deSouza(CEO)inTim Dingman(Strategic Product Manager)inCharles Lambert(Web Developer)Jesse Tinsley
Co-investors1435 CapitalAccelAdit Ventures Management, LlcAIspace VenturesAlpana VenturesAlpha Square Group+105 more
Sesame builds personal voice AI agents capable of natural conversation, along with hardware devices designed to make them more effective.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerDeep TechHardwareSan Francisco, US
Brendan Iribe(Founder)inAnkit Kumar(Founder)inRyan Brown(Founder)inNate MitchellinAngela Gaylesin
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzMatrixSequoia Capital7percent VenturesA*Abstract Ventures+23 more
Sesame was an education product serving teachers and students, described as telling the stories that report cards cannot.
EdTech
Co-investorsImagine K12ATW PartnersSequoia CapitalSpark Capital
Sidecar Health offers ACA-compliant major medical insurance plans for large employers, providing price transparency and direct access to care through fully insured and self-funded administrative services options.
HealthtechInsurTech
Patrick Quigley(Founder)inVeronica Osetinsky(Founder)inVeronica Gonzalez(Founder)
Co-investorsAlpha EdisonBond Capital ManagementCathay InnovationComcast VenturesDrive CapitalEnsemble VC+7 more
Strata provides identity orchestration software that secures human and agent identities across multiple cloud environments and identity providers without vendor lock-in or application refactoring.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareNiwot, US
Eric Olden(Founder)inCarl Eric Leach(Founder)Christopher Marie(Founder)Eric Leach(Founder)Topher Marie(Founder)
BoardRohit Gupta(Director)
Co-investorsTitanium VenturesA'Z AngelsForgePoint CapitalInnovating CapitalNew York Life VenturesPrana Tech Ventures+2 more
FireHydrant provides an incident management and reliability platform for enterprises to manage software incidents through collaboration, automation, and transparency.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York, US
Daniel Condomitti(Founder)inRobert Ross(Founder)inDylan Nielsen(Founder)
BoardMatthew Murphy(Director)inJonathan Lehr(Director)inMark Lotke(Director)in
Co-investorsHarmony PartnersThird Point VenturesWork-BenchCerca PartnersHighland EuropeJ12 Ventures+3 more
Yellowbrick Data provides a secure data analytics platform deployed within customer cloud accounts and on-premises, designed for enterprises that require data security, availability, and granular access control.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMountain View, US
Neil Carson(Founder)inMark Brinicombe(Founder)Jim Dawson(Founder)
Co-investorsThird Point VenturesBMW i VenturesGV (Google Ventures)In-Q-TelIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)Next47+5 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
DiffuseImmersiveSuperplumTeamflow
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.














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