Founded in 1995, the firm has offices in Woodside and San Francisco, California. They focus on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, and infrastructure and enterprise software. Menlo Ventures's most notable exits include Uber, Roku, and Pliant Therapeutics.īenchmark invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. For later stage opportunities, we have the capacity to invest more than $40 million, focusing on capital-efficient models with the potential to disrupt huge markets. We typically invest up to $20 million in our main fund, and continue to support subsequent rounds. Our team believes in playing an active role at any stage of a company’s development. 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’s portfolio includes more than 70 public companies, and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions, with $5 billion under management. Notable areas of investment include Marketplaces (Uber,, Poshmark) Consumer Services(Tumblr, Betterment, Roku, Siri) Dev/Ops (Harness, Edge Delta, Firehydrant) 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). Since 1976, the firm’s market-driven analysis has led to the identification of opportunities and successful investments in innovative markets. Menlo Ventures provides capital for multi-stage consumer, enterprise and life sciences technology companies. Their investment team and mentor network has operational experience at companies such as PayPal, Google, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Apple.ĥ00 Startups's most notable exits include Animoca Brands, Reddit, and Credit Karma. In addition to investments, they are passionate about helping build viable startup ecosystems around the world and run educational programs, events and conferences, and partnerships globally. The team of 150 people based in 20 countries manage venture investments across 74 countries and speak over 25 languages. It contributes to the development of innovation ecosystems by supporting startups and investors through educational programs, events, conferences, and partnerships with corporations and governments around the world. They have invested in 2,200+ technology startups globally since its inception in 2010 including Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), Credit Karma, SendGrid, Grab, GitLab, Bukalapak, Canva, Udemy, TalkDesk, Intercom, Ipsy, MakerBot (acquired by SSYS), Wildfire (acquired by GOOG), and Viki (acquired by Rakuten).ĥ00 Startups support startups via their Seed Accelerator Programs which emphasize digital marketing, customer acquisition, lean startup practices, and fundraising for pre-Seed companies. 500 Startups is a global venture capital firm with a network of startup programs headquartered in Silicon Valley with over $454M in committed capital across 4 main funds and 15 thematic funds.
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