John Jarve
Partner Emeritus @ Menlo Ventures
Menlo Park, United States
John Jarve is a Series B investor at Menlo Ventures in Menlo Park focused on Software and Enterprise Software. John Jarve has a wealth of knowledge on building better businesses.Over the past 27 years, John has led Menlo Ventures' investments in more than 40 portfolio companies, primarily in the communications, storage, semiconductor, Internet and financial technology sectors.John has been the lead investor in multiple venture capital fundedcompanies that have had successful IPOs and achieved billion dollar valuations, including UUNET Technologies, the world's largest Internet access provider (UUNT; now part of Verizon), Digital Insight, the pioneering leader in Internet banking (DGIN; now part of Intuit), and Cavium Networks, the leading provider of security communication chips (NASDAQ: CAVM).John attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering) and then went on to the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.).John is a former trustee of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the former chairman of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Management Board. He is currently the president-elect of the MIT Alumni Association and will begin his term as president summer 2013.
- Total investments:
- 62
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 23%
Last updated:
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Industries John Jarve invests in
Stages John Jarve invests in
Countries John Jarve invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Series A
- $6.3M–$12M
- Series B
- $7.5M–$20M
- Series C
- $12M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 10 (16%)
- Enterprise Software 6 (10%)
- Analytics 5 (8%)
- Financial Services 4 (6%)
- FinTech 3 (5%)
Stage
- Series B 14 (23%)
- Series C 10 (16%)
- Series A 6 (10%)
- Series D 6 (10%)
- Funding Round 5 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Betterment
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Betterment is a smart automated investing service that provides optimized investment returns for individual, IRA, ROTH IRA, and rollover 401(k) accounts. Its technology enables users to manage their investments in a customized, diversified portfolio. Charging a management fee of 0.25%, the company enables users to access, view, share, and reviewtheir portfolio’s activities as well as deposit and withdraw money from anywhere, anytime. Betterments products also include Tax Loss Harvesting, a program that works to offset taxes on both gains and income; and RetireGuide, a series of online surveys to enable users to determine the success of their long-term financial goals. | $60M / Series F / Sep 29, 2021 | |
Carputty
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Carputty is a consumer automotive startup that provides car loan services to its clients. The company's transparent and easy-to-use line of credit puts the customer in the driver’s seat, while its proprietary, predictive valuation tool knows the perfect time to buy and sell and teaches owners to see their vehicle as an asset.Carputty wasfounded by Patrick Bayliss and Joshua Tatum in 2020. | $7.2M / Seed / Aug 06, 2021 | |
Credit Sesame
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Credit Sesame is a credit and loan company that makes consumer credit and loan management simple and automated. The company marries its deep understanding of how personal credit works with the latest in digital banking to offer the only free online and mobile digital banking service that helps consumers manage and grow their credit and cash in oneplace as they spend and save. Credit Sesame also provides personalized recommendations regarding personal loans, home loans, student loans, credit cards, and refinancing opportunities that can help members improve their credit and spending power. It gives its members free access to credit score monitoring, credit reports, and identity protection tools.Credit Sesame was founded on April 1, 2010, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States. | $51M / Series G / Jun 08, 2021 | |
The Routing Company
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The Routing Company makes an end-to-end platform enabling operators of shuttles and buses to offer on-demand, dynamically routed transportation service. Targeting the projected $30b high-capacity mobility-as-a-service market and capitalizing on the decline of car ownership and the widespread adoption of e-hailing, Routable enables a new low-cost,highly efficient and ultra-convenient transportation option to commuters, fleet operators, and corporations.Borne from 5 years of PhD research at MIT, Routable AI employs patent-pending routing algorithms and AI that offer a 10x advantage over current routing methodologies. Routable’s platform has been shown to reduce fleet sizes by as much as 80% simply due to more efficient routing and optimization. | $5M / Seed / Dec 15, 2020 | |
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Credit Sesame
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Credit Sesame is a credit and loan company that makes consumer credit and loan management simple and automated. The company marries its deep understanding of how personal credit works with the latest in digital banking to offer the only free online and mobile digital banking service that helps consumers manage and grow their credit and cash in oneplace as they spend and save. Credit Sesame also provides personalized recommendations regarding personal loans, home loans, student loans, credit cards, and refinancing opportunities that can help members improve their credit and spending power. It gives its members free access to credit score monitoring, credit reports, and identity protection tools.Credit Sesame was founded on April 1, 2010, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States. | $43M / Series F / Aug 30, 2019 | |
Rafay Systems
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Rafay enables developers to automate the distribution, operations, cross-region scaling and lifecycle management of containerized microservices across public and private clouds, and service provider networks.Rafay’s platform is built around foundational elements that together deliver an optimal abstraction layer across disparate infrastructure,making it easy for developers to scale and operate applications across any number of locations or regions.Consumed as a service, Rafay’s platform eliminates the need to build an in-house platform or developing any specialized compute distribution capabilities. The platform significantly simplifies the deployment of containerized apps anywhere. Organizations can now achieve their desired levels of reliability, availability and performance with any combination of public cloud environments through a developer-friendly SaaS offering.From deploying a simple web crawler across multiple regions, to running a cloud gaming platform across multiple public clouds, to operating a ride-share platform, the level of specialization needed to build and maintain a unified distribution platform is very high. This is why we created Rafay Systems; to remove the burden and cost of do-it-yourself approaches and provide a proven platform for running containerized apps anywhere? | Seed / Apr 04, 2018 | |
Reniac
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Reniac is a group of passionate entrepreneurs with data, software and systems experience from companies such as LinkedIn, IBM, Xilinx, Samsung, Riverbed and Napatech. | Dec 15, 2017 | |
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Credit Sesame
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Credit Sesame is a credit and loan company that makes consumer credit and loan management simple and automated. The company marries its deep understanding of how personal credit works with the latest in digital banking to offer the only free online and mobile digital banking service that helps consumers manage and grow their credit and cash in oneplace as they spend and save. Credit Sesame also provides personalized recommendations regarding personal loans, home loans, student loans, credit cards, and refinancing opportunities that can help members improve their credit and spending power. It gives its members free access to credit score monitoring, credit reports, and identity protection tools.Credit Sesame was founded on April 1, 2010, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States. | $26.6M / Series E / Oct 25, 2017 | |
RealtyShares
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RealtyShares is a real estate investment platform that gives investors direct access to quality commercial real estate investment opportunities. It connects its network of individual and institutional investors with experienced real estate operators looking to raise capital to improve properties for higher, better use. Venture-backed by premierinvestors such as 500 Startups, Union Square Ventures, General Catalyst, Cross Creek Advisors, and Menlo Ventures, RealtyShares has deployed more than $840 million over 1,100 investment opportunities in 41 states. | $28M / Series C / Sep 14, 2017 | |
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Betterment
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Betterment is a smart automated investing service that provides optimized investment returns for individual, IRA, ROTH IRA, and rollover 401(k) accounts. Its technology enables users to manage their investments in a customized, diversified portfolio. Charging a management fee of 0.25%, the company enables users to access, view, share, and reviewtheir portfolio’s activities as well as deposit and withdraw money from anywhere, anytime. Betterments products also include Tax Loss Harvesting, a program that works to offset taxes on both gains and income; and RetireGuide, a series of online surveys to enable users to determine the success of their long-term financial goals. | $70M / Series E / Jul 21, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
About Menlo Ventures
Menlo Ventures provides capital for multi-stage consumer, enterprise, and life sciences technology companies. Since 1976, the firm’s market-driven analysis has led to the identification of opportunities and successful investments in innovative markets. Notable areas of investment include Marketplaces (Uber, Rover.com, Poshmark); Consumer Services(Tumblr, Betterment, Roku, Siri); Dev/Ops (Harness, Edge Delta, Fire hydrant); SaaS (Carta, ScoutRFP, Qualia, Benchling, Everlaw); Fintech (Betterment, Bluevine, Chime); Cybersecurity (Cavium, IronPort, BitSight, Abnormal, StackRox); and Life Sciences Technology (Synthego, Cofactor Genomics, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, 3T Biosciences). Menlo’s portfolio includes more than 70 public companies, and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions, with $5 billion under management. The firm is currently investing in Menlo Ventures XV, a $500 million early-stage fund, as well as its $500 million Inflection Fund, which targets early-growth investments.
Menlo Ventures Contacts
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Henry Montgomery
Founder and Partner Emeritus
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Jean-Paul Sanday
Partner
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John Jarve
Partner Emeritus
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Johnny Hu
Principal
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Steve Sloane
Partner
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FAQ
What does John Jarve invest in?
John Jarve invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Analytics startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 62 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is John Jarve's check size?
John Jarve typically joins rounds of $6.3M–$12M at Series A, $7.5M–$20M at Series B and $12M–$50M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds John Jarve participates in.
When did John Jarve last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for John Jarve closed in Sep 2021. Shizune tracks 62 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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