Investor profile for Menlo Ventures: stage-based planning range, investment stages, sector focus, portfolio companies, sources, and verification status. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker directory.

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Menlo Ventures stages, portfolio and investment profile

Multi-stage Menlo Park firm investing in consumer, enterprise, fintech, and healthcare — and manager of the $100M Anthology Fund with Anthropic for AI-native startups.

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Stage-based planning range

$1M–$10M

This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.

Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.

No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.

Source link not recorded Confidence: 25% Verified: Not recorded View methodology

Investment stages

Leads: Series A, Series B+

Participates: Seed, Series A, Series B+

Sector focus

Enterprise SaaS · AI & Machine Learning · Consumer

Geography

Menlo Park, CA

Founded 1976

Fund size / AUM

Not recorded

A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.

Portfolio in our directory

26

Linked startup profiles

Latest fund vehicle

Not recorded

Vehicle name, size, and vintage are not yet structured.

Recent tracked investment

Heaviside Industries

Series B · $60M · August 2026

Rounds they lead

Series A Series B+

Rounds they invest

Seed Series A Series B+

Last verified: Not recorded. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.

Portfolio companies we track

Startups in our directory that list Menlo Ventures as an investor (26 total).

+2 more in the directory graph (browse related articles below or the startups index).

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FAQs about Menlo Ventures

Stage fit, check size, thesis, and how founders typically approach this firm — based on public sources and our directory.

Menlo leads Series A and Series B+ in our directory and participates at seed. It also runs the Anthology Fund, a dedicated vehicle for pre-seed, seed, and Series A AI-native companies in partnership with Anthropic.
Menlo's main fund does not publish fixed checks. The Anthology Fund states investments starting at $100,000, with most Anthology initial checks in the sub-$1.5M range and ability to follow into larger rounds as companies prove traction.
Menlo Ventures is based in Menlo Park, California, and invests nationally and internationally across consumer, enterprise, and healthcare — recent activity includes NYC AI infrastructure (e.g., Modal Labs Series C participation in our coverage).
Menlo covers enterprise SaaS, AI/ML (especially via Anthology), consumer, fintech, and healthcare. The Anthology Fund targets AI applications, infrastructure, developer tools, and vertical AI aligned with Anthropic's ecosystem.
Menlo leads Series A and growth rounds in its core practice. Anthology can lead or participate at pre-seed/seed and aims to lead the next round when an initial smaller check graduates — Menlo reported 30+ Anthology companies within its first year.
August 2026 coverage includes Wispr (/startup/wispr), Higgsfield (/startup/higgsfield), and Lovable (/startup/lovable). Other linked startups include Pinecone (/startup/pinecone), Netlify (/startup/netlify), OpenRouter (/startup/openrouter), Recursion (/startup/recursion), Signifyd (/startup/signifyd), Clerk (/startup/clerk), and Function Health (/startup/function-health).
For AI-native companies, apply via menlovc.com/menlo-anthology-fund. For the main fund, warm introductions through portfolio founders or co-investors are standard. Menlo uses an online application flow for Anthology with a lightweight diligence process.
August 2026: Menlo led Wispr’s $280M Series B (/2026-wispr-280m-series-b-menlo-voice) and Lovable’s $400M Series C (/2026-lovable-400m-series-c-menlo-13-3b), is an existing Higgsfield backer (/2026-higgsfield-400m-series-b-5-4b), and is on OpenRouter’s cap table in the announced Stripe deal (/2026-stripe-openrouter-7b-reported). Earlier: Modal Labs Series C (/2026-modal-labs-355m-series-c-ai-infrastructure-nyc).

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