Menlo Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

803

Average round size

31M

Portfolio companies

402

Rounds per year

16.73

Lead investments

184

Follow on index

0.50

Exits

157

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareSecurity

Summary

Menlo Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1976. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The company was established in North America in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Machine Zone, 3PAR. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Advertising, Analytics. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

This organization was formed by Henry DuBose Montgomery. The overall number of key employees were 11.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Menlo Ventures works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2013. The fund is generally included in 25-48 deals every year. The typical startup value when the investment from Menlo Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 14 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Menlo Ventures, startups are often financed by e.ventures, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Sherpa Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are e.ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Inventus Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Translink Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Redpoint.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseHealthcareConsumer/RetailAI/Big DataBiotech/Life Sciences Show 5 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
100K — 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 1350000000
Fund raised date
2023-11-16

Analytics

Total investments
803
Lead investments
184
Exits
157
Rounds per year
16.73
Follow on index
0.50
Investments by industry
  • Software (301)
  • Information Technology (130)
  • Enterprise Software (129)
  • SaaS (79)
  • Internet (77)
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Investments by region
  • United States (772)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • France (3)
  • Canada (4)
  • Switzerland (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
23
Number of Decacorns
25
Number of Minotaurs
6

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
468M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
2.81
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Kinetic Automation 20 Jun 2024 Early Stage Venture 21M United States, California, Orange
Unstructured Technologies 14 Mar 2024 Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Open Source, Natural Language Processing Early Stage Venture 40M United States, California, Sacramento

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