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@MenloVentures invest in AI 1st Infra & SaaS @cartainc @benchling @harnessio @anthropicai @typefaceai @clarifai @cleanlabai @semgrep @Envoy @Vivun_inc Mimic
Bay Area, California
Joined March 2008
Couldn't be more excited for @MenloVentures to be launching the $100M "Anthology Fund" in partnership with @AnthropicAI ! The fund will bring together the most innovative entrepreneurs, the best AI team and technology in Anthropic, and one of the top VC firms in AI, collectively
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Amazing company, team, execution, and market. Truly extraordinary what @AnthropicAI has already accomplished with so much more to come…
Cheers to @AnthropicAI on $13B Series F! We first invested in 2023: pre-product, pre-revenue, <$5B Now: Valued at $183B, $4.5B ARR, 300K+ customers, enterprise AI leader + our largest single investment in history! 🚀
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OpenRouter’s real-world usage is becoming the most important ranking for intelligence
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The Anthology Fund has >30 companies in just over 1 year and 3 of the early seeds have graduated to full Series A's. Pace and opportunity set only increasing as more and more devs innovate with @claudeai. appreciate the partnership with @AnthropicAI. Reach out to the
Excited to share an update on the AI startups we’ve invested in from Menlo's Anthology Fund with Anthropic: —OpenRouter —Goodfire —Wispr Flow —Wisdom AI —Graphite —Chai Discovery —Mercor —Prime Intellect —All Hands We’re always on the lookout for more. If you want to partner
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💰💰💰One-third of global VC funding in Q2 -$91B -went into AI In @bayareawriter’s @crunchbasenews piece VCs including Menlo’s @mmurph weigh in on: - where AI is delivering - where markets are overcrowded, and - which sectors could define the next wave https://t.co/IDaoYGH6mP
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Will startup funding maintain its momentum in H2 2025? To get a sense of what investors are seeing for the rest of the year, we spoke with VCs from Menlo Ventures, Founders Fund, Bain Capital...
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If you normalize 74.9% to 500, that’s 71.4% and if you take the 74% in the system card, it’s 70.6%. Both of which are lower than Sonnet 4!
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🚀 Welcome to the portfolio, @chaidiscovery! Their Chai-2 model achieved a 100x improvement in antibody design. This is how you transform drug discovery. Thrilled to back this world-class team: @joshim5 @_jackdent @Mattmcpartlon1 @j_boitreaud For more on why we invested👉
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🚨Anthropic is at $4.5B annualized revenue and is the fastest growing software company in history! They just overtook OpenAI to become the market leader in LLM API cost. We just dropped this and more in our mid year Enteprise AI report: 1/7
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Impressed everyday with the talent, execution and innovation. We’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with the team since the Series C when they were pre launch and pre revenue. Amazing accomplishments in such a relatively short period of time (just over 2 years post launch and
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Anecdotally across our portfolio, companies we meet, and larger companies we interact with, its been obvious that @AnthropicAI has really separated itself from the LLM pack on the enterprise front over the last 6-8 months. Our enterprise AI market share report quantifies that
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We @MenloVentures are out with our 2025 Mid-Year LLM Market Update: Foundation Model Landscape, and the results are clear on a huge market share shift and its no surprise who has taken the #1 spot! hint @AnthropicAI!... http://https://t.co/5ELPZ32vhg
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As foundation models’ capabilities and economics evolve, so will the systems, applications, and industries built on top of them.
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Security is key to accelerating AI rollouts. Big opportunity for entrepreneurs!👇👇
A new cybersecurity market is forming—purpose-built for agentic systems. Traditional tools can’t secure autonomous agents that reason, act, and access systems without human oversight. Our market map outlines the key categories shaping security for agents. For more on todays
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A new cybersecurity market is forming—purpose-built for agentic systems. Traditional tools can’t secure autonomous agents that reason, act, and access systems without human oversight. Our market map outlines the key categories shaping security for agents. For more on todays
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Been a lot of announcements about AI robotics. This is the one to watch. more tomorrow...
Fortunate to be working with an amazing team @SkildAI. Check out the teaser of decade-long contributions from our team before Skild AI. Stay tuned for the release tomorrow!
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.@OpenRouterAI providing new levels of model transparency/choice and some notable entrepreneurs are paying attention….
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.@OpenRouterAI + @AnthropicAI = 🪄❤️
For those of you implementing fallbacks for Anthropic today: there’s a better way
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Not only astounding in terms of penetration rate this early but some amazing usage data on how people are using AI on various jobs to be done. Many nuggets and insights in here that will surprise…
BREAKING: Our consumer AI report just dropped 📊 61% of US adults use AI—even nearly half of Baby Boomers, with 11% using it daily. This isn't experimentation anymore. It's habit formation at unprecedented scale. Get the complete $12B market insights: 👉 https://t.co/u54YQHvvhz
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Pretty big idea !👇👇
Excited to announce a $40M raise for @OpenRouterAI (seed + A), led by a16z & Menlo! LLM inference will be the biggest software market in the world. We've become the #1 control plane. Here's what's next:
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