Shawn Carolan
@shawnvc
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Investing in consumer tech to make life better/faster/cheaper @Menloventures. Founder, engineer, product fanboy, dad, aspiring empath, and in ❤️ w @jencarolan
Silicon Valley
Joined March 2009
Suno is partnering with the Warner Music Group https://t.co/Bu88Ty8YgP
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Suno partners with Warner Music Group to build the future of interactive music
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Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always dreamt of one day building fully secure and compliant agentic workflows for the enterprise. Today, my heart is brimming with unspeakable joy: announcing Lindy Enterprise. Every enterprise wants to adopt AI: leaders exhort their team to use
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Vibe music is here! Really impressive to see the level of quality the @suno team has achieved as well as the community being built around a new type of artistry.
We @MenloVentures are thrilled to lead @Suno’s $250M Series C and partner with @MikeyShulman @GeorgKucsko @fut_ure @jackdbrody, and investors @mignano @lightspeedvp and @antrod @matrixvc on this next phase of the journey 🎹 Music is one of humanity’s oldest and most powerful
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This Stanford professor just raised a $50M Seed and have built a 10x faster and 10x cheaper AI coding model with the performance of Gemini Flash / Haiku. Inception Labs’ Mercury model can implement games like Connect 4 from scratch in ~2s. The speed feels magical, like going
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Woohoo! Can't wait for mine.
We’re excited to announce Tone- our new air management brand built on Whisper Aero’s UltraQuiet™ innovations. High-performing, low-noise outdoor blowers designed for peace, performance, and precision. Power you feel. Sound you barely notice. @toneoutdoors
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An aerospace revolution might be on us. We went to Tennessee to check out @WhisperAero's ultra quiet engines and put them to the test. Full, glorious epsiode down below
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Go Derek!! The pen is mightier than the sword.
We're thrilled to announce @derekgxiao's promotion to Principal! 🎉 Since 2022, he's helped drive marquee investments in Anthropic, Neon (acquired by Databricks), and Unstructured while co-authoring our State of GenAI reports. Derek brings deep technical insights to founders at
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Wet eyes! Go @AnthropicAI
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Congratulations @deedydas, lucky to call you partner!! Cheers to a future of silently speaking to an interpretable model to get a synthesis of the latest AI research. 😉
We’re thrilled to announce @deedydas promotion to Partner! 🎉 Beyond co-launching our $100M Anthology Fund with Anthropic, Deedy has become a defining voice in AI—from our 2025 LLM Market Update to his 300K+ social following. He’s passionate about partnering with technical
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What has most impressed me about @AnthropicAI is the underlying value the are creating to drive these metrics, and with a strong moral compass. The founders feel it, their team feels it, every "vibe coder" out there is feeling it (myself included), and countless others who are
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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Our first broad-based consumer AI survey in the US. Leading the pack, unsurprisingly, are students with 85% AI usage (monthly), but in 2nd place are parents of kids under 18 with a whopping 79% penetration! We break down: * What penetration has AI achieved slices by demographics
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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Several good questions from @MorganLBrennan on @CNBCOvertime. Thanks for having me on and covering such a great, newly public company in @Chime. Team @MenloVentures is so happy for and proud of this team!
.@Chime board member and @MenloVentures partner @shawnvc joined the show to talk about Chime's stellar IPO debut and the resurgence of IPOs.
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We raised $6.5 million to build the world's most powerful creative tool.
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Keep the faith consumer investors, there's more work to do and the time is ripe!
Consumer investors are a dying breed. VC funding in consumer companies plunged from ~30% of global venture dollars in 2014 to just ~6% in 2024. Yet fundamental human needs haven’t changed. Massive opportunities exist, and AI has reignited excitement to build
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Claude Sonnet 4 set the state of the art in agentic coding! It beats OpenAI o3 and even the larger Opus 4 with the first ever 80% on SWE-Bench verified.
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🎉 Huge congrats to @nikitabase and the entire @neondatabase on joining forces with @databricks! A powerful combo—bringing serverless Postgres and AI-native infrastructure together to shape the future of intelligent apps. For more on why Menlo's @timt backed Neon early:
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If you don’t have confidence, build evidence. If you don’t have evidence, build skill. If you don’t have skill, build discipline. If you don’t have discipline, build accountability. If you don’t have accountability, remove friends + change environment + add stakes.
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Distribute Logistics. Save Fuel. Sustain Airpower. Today, we’re announcing Collaborative Logistics Aircraft (or CLA for short), a family of rightsized systems for contested air logistics.
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From chips to style tips: Convincing the NVIDIA boss that orange complements his leather jacket collection right before our fireside chat. Mission accomplished! #MenloOrange @MenloVentures color
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Love Monarch and happy to be both a customer and investor!! I'm 8/10 until they nail automatic categorization, AI is too smart to spend my time on that.
Has anyone used Monarch Money? If so, from 0-10 (no 7 allowed), how strongly would you recommend and why? Thanks! 🙏
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