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Menlo Ventures

Founders Henry DuBose Montgomery

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Total investments 794
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$29M
Portfolio companies 396
Rounds per year 16.54
Lead investments 180
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.50
Exits 157
Key employees 12
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Enterprise Software
  • SaaS
  • Internet
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Higgsfield

$8M03 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Unstructured Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Open Source
$40M14 Mar 2024 Sacramento, California, United States

Brain Jar Games

$6M07 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Barnyard Games

Casual Games
Gaming
PC Games
Video Games
$3M14 Dec 2023 Encinitas, California, United States

True Anomaly

Aerospace
Machinery Manufacturing
Space Travel
$100M12 Dec 2023 Denver, Colorado, United States

Squint

Augmented Reality
Manufacturing
Mobile Apps
Software
$13M29 Nov 2023 -

OfferFit

Marketing
Software
$25M14 Nov 2023 -

Arch

Hedge Funds
Real Estate Investment
Software
Venture Capital
Wealth Management
$20M09 Nov 2023 New York, New York, United States

Eleos Health

Health Care
$40M08 Nov 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
News
Sonrai Security Announces $50M in Series C Funding Led by ISTARI to Scale Multicloud Security for Global Enterprises

– Sonrai Security announced a $50M Series C funding round.
– The round was led by ISTARI, a global cybersecurity platform dedicated to helping clients build cyber resilience, with participation from existing investors Polaris Partners, Menlo Ventures, TenEleven Ventures and New Brunswick Innovation Fund.
– The Series C round brings the total capital raised by Sonrai to $88 million.
– Sonrai plans to use new funding to accelerate research and development and expand sales and marketing globally for the company’s industry-leading cloud security platform.
– Public cloud complexity for global enterprises is exploding as microservices, workloads and associated ‘non-people’ identities proliferate rapidly.
– Sonrai has identified 17,000 unique permissions settings across AWS, Azure and GCP cloud platforms with approximately 20 new permissions added daily.

CodeSignal Raises $50M in Series C Funding

– CodeSignal is a San Francisco, CA-based technical assessment platform to make data-driven hiring decisions in tech recruiting.
– The company raised $50M in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from Menlo Ventures, Headline, and A Capital.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate product and go-to-market functions and launch its new Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that enables relevant assessment experiences.

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Total investments 794
Average round size 29M
Rounds per year 16.54
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 180
Follow on index 0.50
Exits 157
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Higgsfield

$8M03 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Unstructured Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Open Source
$40M14 Mar 2024 Sacramento, California, United States

Brain Jar Games

$6M07 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Barnyard Games

Casual Games
Gaming
PC Games
Video Games
$3M14 Dec 2023 Encinitas, California, United States

True Anomaly

Aerospace
Machinery Manufacturing
Space Travel
$100M12 Dec 2023 Denver, Colorado, United States

Squint

Augmented Reality
Manufacturing
Mobile Apps
Software
$13M29 Nov 2023 -

OfferFit

Marketing
Software
$25M14 Nov 2023 -

Arch

Hedge Funds
Real Estate Investment
Software
Venture Capital
Wealth Management
$20M09 Nov 2023 New York, New York, United States

Eleos Health

Health Care
$40M08 Nov 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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