Menlo Ventures news and trends

Investors Chase Visible Impact With AI and Web3 Infrastructure Investments
Investments // February 23, 2024

When it comes to the venture capital landscape, every year — and strategy — is different. Nearly no other investor segment deals with more reckonings and recalibrations than tech investors — or reaps such sky-high benefits when their big bets pay off. Against the backdrop...

Report: Anthropic Plans $750 Million Fundraise With Menlo Ventures
Investments // December 21, 2023

Anthropic is reportedly in talks to raise $750 million with the help of Menlo Ventures. The artificial intelligence startup’s valuation before this round is $18.4 billion, Reuters reported Wednesday (Dec. 20), citing an unnamed source. Anthropic, whose co-founder siblings Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei are...

Menlo Ventures Raises $1.35 Billion for Fledgling AI Firms
Investments // November 16, 2023

Menlo Ventures has raised $1.35 billion to invest in artificial intelligence (AI) ventures. The new capital will be split between early-stage fund Menlo XVI and early growth fund Menlo Inflection III, partner Matt Murphy told Bloomberg News Thursday (Nov. 16).  The focus will be on fledgling AI companies...

Menlo Ventures’ Aunkur Arya: FinTech ‘Growth at All Costs’ Pales Next to Capital Efficiency
Investments // June 13, 2022

For FinTechs, and for the venture capital firms that fund them, the mantra “growth at all costs” is so 2021. Aunkur Arya, venture partner at Menlo Ventures, told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster in an interview that only six months into 2022, entrepreneurs are learning that the...

Interviews & Exclusives
Menlo Ventures’ Aunkur Arya: FinTech ‘Growth at All Costs’ Pales Next to Capital Efficiency

June 13, 2022
For FinTechs, and for the venture capital firms that fund them, the mantra “growth at all costs” is so 2021. Aunkur Arya, venture partner at Menlo Ventures, told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster in an interview that only six months into 2022, entrepreneurs are learning that the mindset has changed a bit — and, increasingly, there’s more […]

Why Data-Backed Innovation Is The Medicine Healthcare Needs

May 04, 2020
Among the more unnerving surprises of the coronavirus pandemic for most people was learning just how vulnerable and thinly stretched some areas of our healthcare system really are. Between the...

Quick Reads
Anthropic and Menlo Ventures Launch $100 Million AI Startup Fund

July 17, 2024
Anthropic and Menlo Ventures have launched a $100 million fund for artificial intelligence (AI) startups. “We created this fund to fuel the next generation of AI startups through the powerful combination of Menlo’s extensive company-building experience and Anthropic’s pioneering AI technology and deep research expertise,” Menlo said in a news release Wednesday (July 17).  “Through […]

Report: Anthropic Plans $750 Million Fundraise With Menlo Ventures

December 21, 2023
Anthropic is reportedly in talks to raise $750 million with the help of Menlo Ventures. The artificial intelligence startup’s valuation before this round is $18.4 billion, Reuters reported Wednesday (Dec....

Menlo Ventures Raises $1.35 Billion for Fledgling AI Firms

November 16, 2023
Menlo Ventures has raised $1.35 billion to invest in artificial intelligence (AI) ventures. The new capital will be split between early-stage fund Menlo XVI and early growth fund Menlo Inflection III,...

Who Decided To Hold – And Fold – Uber Shares To SoftBank

January 08, 2018
Now that Uber has completed its secondary transaction with SoftBank, there is a clearer picture of just how much money the company’s investors are walking away with after the deal....