# Menlo Ventures

> Menlo Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 728 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 728
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 35%
- Fund size: $100M
- Last fund: Jul 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/menlo-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/menloventures
- Website: http://www.menlovc.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/menloventures

Menlo Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $6.3M–$60M |
| Series B | $10M–$100M |
| Series C | $12M–$120M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 126 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 51 | 7% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 50 | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 43 | 6% |
| SaaS | 33 | 5% |

288 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 152 | 21% |
| Series A | 123 | 17% |
| Series C | 98 | 13% |
| Seed | 75 | 10% |
| Series D | 59 | 8% |

15 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 338 | 46% |
| Canada | 2 | 0% |
| Sweden | 2 | 0% |
| Brazil | 1 | 0% |
| France | 1 | 0% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Henry Montgomery | Founder and Partner Emeritus | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dubose-montgomery |
| Jean-Paul Sanday | Partner | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-paul-sanday |
| John Jarve | Partner Emeritus | 62 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-jarve |
| Johnny Hu | Principal | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/johnny-hu |
| Steve Sloane | Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-sloane |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sapiom | The agentic economy is here, but it cannot progress until AI agents can autonomously access and operate across real-world systems and services.Sapiom gives AI agents trusted access to the API economy.We provide the essential infrastructure (KYA, wallets, spending and usage controls, and multi-rail payments) to unlock secure, programmaticcommerce for the AI era.Built for the next era of commerce where agents buy, sell, and negotiate on our behalf.We're backed by world-class investors and are hiring exceptional engineers in SF to define the financial infrastructure for the agentic era.Learn more & join us: https://www.sapiom.ai | $35M | Series A | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| Obsidian Security | Led by former founding team members of Cylance and Carbon Black, Obsidian Security is a Southern California technology company living at the intersection of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and hybrid-cloud environments. Backed by Greylock Partners, Obsidian Security is based in Newport Beach, CA. | $85M | Series D | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Pangram Labs | Pangram Labs is building technology to identify AI-generated content. | $9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 29, 2026 |  |
| Zafran Security | Zafran Security is a cybersecurity startup specializing in vulnerability prioritization and threat exposure management, aiming to identify, remediate, and mitigate risks within organizations. The AI-native exposure management platform developed by the company aims to proactively avert the exploitation of vulnerabilities by incorporating autonomousagents throughout all stages of the vulnerability management lifecycle. With threat actors rapidly exploiting newly revealed security vulnerabilities through AI automation, Zafran's platform enables organizations to take action before these vulnerabilities result in incidents. The company’s solutions work alongside current security tools, utilizing AI agents to pinpoint weaknesses, provide contextual information, and address these issues by linking them to controls and evaluating the potential for exploitation. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| Cheiron | PhnyX Lab is working under the concept of redefining biopharma workflow through AI-powered solutions. The industry celebrates breakthroughs in medicine—but behind the scenes, progress isn't slowed by science. It's hindered by fragmented data, bloated documentation, and disconnected workflows. With Cheiron, they are revolutionizing howpharma operates, turning chaos into clarity by unifying internal and external data within a single discovery platform. They are going beyond unified search to intelligent action and automation, powered by GenAI. | $8M | Seed | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| Fireworks AI | Fireworks.ai offers generative AI platform as a service. We optimize for rapid product iteration building on top of gen AI as well as minimizing cost to serve. | $1.5B | Series D | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Fireworks AI | Fireworks.ai offers generative AI platform as a service. We optimize for rapid product iteration building on top of gen AI as well as minimizing cost to serve. | $1.5B | Series D | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Fireworks AI | Fireworks.ai offers generative AI platform as a service. We optimize for rapid product iteration building on top of gen AI as well as minimizing cost to serve. | $1.5B | Series D | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Fireworks AI | Fireworks.ai offers generative AI platform as a service. We optimize for rapid product iteration building on top of gen AI as well as minimizing cost to serve. | $1.5B | Series D | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Walden Robotics | Walden Robotics is an industrial robotics company that builds and deploys general-purpose, semi-humanoid robots for manufacturing and logistics. | $300M | Seed | Jul 15, 2026 |  |

10 of 728 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Menlo Ventures invest in?

Menlo Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 728 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 Menlo Ventures's check size?

Menlo Ventures typically joins rounds of $6.3M–$60M at Series A, $10M–$100M at Series B and $12M–$120M 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 Menlo Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Menlo Ventures?

Public channels for Menlo Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Menlo Ventures?

The team at Menlo Ventures includes Henry Montgomery (Founder and Partner Emeritus), Jean-Paul Sanday (Partner) and John Jarve (Partner Emeritus), among 22 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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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