Menlo Ventures

Signals

• Jean-Paul Sanday Partner
• Deborah Carrillo General Counsel
• Mark Siegel Partner Emeritus
• Matt Kraning Partner
• Matt Murphy Partner
• Venky Ganesan Partner
• Tim Tully Partner
• Croom Beatty Partner
• Naomi Pilosof Ionita Board Partner
• Shawn Carolan Partner
• Kirsten Mello Chief Financial Officer
• Houman Haghighi Partner

+ 28 more tracked

Portfolio

Anthropic OpenRouter Lovable Pangram Atlassian Wispr Fireworks Pangram Labs Cheiron Nectar Social Splunk Assort Health Nourish Wispr AI Inc.

Latest developments

2026: The State of Consumer AI Menlo Ventures · 1 day ago · 41

Procurement automation startup Aron launches with $8M in funding SiliconANGLE · 3 days ago · 18

AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks TechCrunch · 1 week ago · 48

Stripe to Acquire OpenRouter: Why Everyone Is Obsessed With Model Routing Menlo Ventures · 4 weeks ago · 36

Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation from Menlo Ventures to build voice layer beneath every app Tech Funding News · 1 month ago · 24

Wispr raises $280M to power up natural speech-to-text using AI SiliconANGLE · 1 month ago · 50 Wispr talks its way to a $2 billion valuation. The company says dictation’s only the beginning Fortune · 24

The Keyboard Is Dying on Schedule. The Text Box Is Next. Menlo Ventures · 1 month ago · 21

September 2026

◆ Aron Inc. invests in Menlo Ventures Funding

◆ Listen Labs invests in Menlo Ventures Funding

• 16 Sep 2026: The State of Consumer AI
• 15 Sep Procurement automation startup Aron launches with $8M in funding
• 10 Sep AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks

August 2026

◆ Stripe agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an LLM model-routing gateway, while Ramp launched an AI model router service called Router Acquisition

◆ Menlo Ventures invests in Wispr Funding

◆ Wispr raised a $280 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation to expand its voice AI platform, including rollout of its Canto speech model and new meeting notetaking features Funding

◆ Wispr raises $280 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation and previews a new speech-understanding model to improve dictation accuracy Funding

◆ Lovable raises a $400 million Series C at a $13.3 billion valuation Funding

• 19 Aug Stripe to Acquire OpenRouter: Why Everyone Is Obsessed With Model Routing
• 18 Aug Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation from Menlo Ventures to build voice layer beneath every app
• 17 Aug Wispr raises $280M to power up natural speech-to-text using AI
• 17 Aug Wispr talks its way to a $2 billion valuation. The company says dictation’s only the beginning
• 17 Aug The Keyboard Is Dying on Schedule. The Text Box Is Next.
• 12 Aug Lovable confirms new $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M
• 12 Aug Lovable raises $400m backed by EU’s Scaleup Fund
• 12 Aug Lovable’s valuation doubles to $13.3BN as raises new funds
• 12 Aug Lovable raises $400M at $13.3B valuation as Menlo, EQT back Europe’s coding unicorn
• 12 Aug Lovable Doubles Its Valuation to $13.3 Billion Within Eight Months

July 2026

◆ Menlo Ventures invests in Pangram Labs Funding

◆ Pangram raises $9 million Series A funding for AI-generated content detection technology Funding

◆ Anthropic acquires Mendral, an AI startup focused on software engineering automation Acquisition

◆ AI-native cybersecurity architectures emerge as enterprises shift from human-led defense to machine-speed automated response systems Feature update

• 29 Jul Pangram Labs raises $9M to launch more accurate AI detection for text and images
• 29 Jul Investing in Pangram to Stop AI Slop on the Internet
• 22 Jul A Unified OS for Drug Development: Our Investment in Cheiron
• 22 Jul Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains what AI startups founders must do differently
• 16 Jul How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product
• 16 Jul Menlo’s Investment in Fireworks: The Runtime for Specialized Intelligence
• 14 Jul Defense at Machine Speed: The Emerging Architecture Powering AI-Native Cybersecurity

June 2026

• 24 Jun Keeping The Front Door of Healthcare Open: Our Investment in Assort Health
• 23 Jun Menlo Turns 50 and Announces $3B in Fresh Capital to Go ALL IN on AI
• 3 Jun Doubling Down on Suno, the Platform for Creative Entertainment

May 2026

• 26 May OpenRouter Now Processes More Than a Quadrillion Tokens a Year
• 19 May Building the Backbone of Metabolic Health: Our Investment in Nourish
• 14 May Nectar Social: Rewriting the Modern Marketing Playbook

Relationships

Investment & ownership

• Invests in Wispr · 4 sources
• Invests in Lovable · 4 sources
• Invests in Pangram · 2 sources
• Lovable invests in this investor · 2 sources
• Invests in Anthropic · 1 source
• Invests in Cheiron · 1 source
• Invests in Nourish · 1 source
• Invests in Pangram Labs · 1 source
• Invests in OpenRouter · 1 source
• Invests in Fireworks · 1 source
• Invests in Nectar Social · 1 source
• Invests in Splunk · 1 source