Optimizes AI inference to reduce compute costs and response time
Menlo Ventures
Activity from announced rounds
Menlo Ventures backs early-stage technology companies, with a major focus on AI infrastructure and applications across enterprise, healthcare and consumer markets.
Its stated investment areas also include cybersecurity, fintech, robotics, hardware and supply-chain automation. Across these areas, Menlo examines how AI changes both the underlying infrastructure and the products businesses or consumers use.
The Menlo Anthology Fund is a $100 million initiative developed with Anthropic to finance AI startups. Menlo also publishes research on enterprise, consumer and healthcare AI adoption, offering founders evidence about buyer demand and spending in their markets.
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- Rounds participated in
- 38
- Confirmed lead rounds
- 1 32 roles undisclosed
- New companies
- 33 First participation on record · 5 follow-on
- Funding in participating rounds
- $7.6B 37 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share
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38 in all activityOpen-source AI models and the Hermes agent, which retains project memory and reusable skills across tasks.
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Provides a cloud inference platform and compiler that distribute AI workloads across different processor types.
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AI video and image creation platform for professional creators and brands
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Platform for specialized intelligence enabling companies to train and serve custom models
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Building a safer world by deploying low-cost air defense systems at scale
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Provides AI-powered patient journey platform for healthcare organizations
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Builds autonomous precision munitions platforms for air, land, and sea forces
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Provides a cloud inference platform and compiler that distribute AI workloads across different processor types.
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