Overview
Menlo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1976[1] that invests across multiple sectors including AI, healthcare, consumer, cybersecurity, fintech, infrastructure, robotics and SaaS[1]. The firm has allocated $3 billion in new capital earmarked for AI startups[1].
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OpenRouter
Company founded in 2023 by Alex Atallah and Louis Vichy, operating a routing platform that connects AI applications to language models and cloud inference providers.
Modal
New York company providing serverless GPU compute for AI and data workloads.
Nourish
Telehealth platform connecting chronic-condition patients with insurance-covered registered dietitians
NYC company founded in 2021 by Erik Bernhardsson and Akshat Bubna, providing serverless infrastructure that runs machine learning and AI code in the cloud.
Pangram Labs
An AI research lab that develops highly accurate detection systems for AI-generated content
FLORA
NYC applied AI human-computer-interaction company founded in 2024 by Weber Wong and Alex Li, building an infinite-canvas creative tool for AI-generated images and video.
Zafran Security
NYC company founded in 2022 by Sanaz Yashar, Ben Seri and Snir Havdala, running a threat exposure management platform that identifies exploitable vulnerabilities and automatically mitigates them.
Slingshot AI
New York company building Ash, a foundation-model-based AI product for mental health support.
Graphite
NYC company founded by Merrill Lutsky, Greg Foster and Tomas Reimers, offering an open-source CLI and AI code review dashboard for engineering teams.
Clarifai
New York computer vision and AI platform for building, deploying and operating models.
Knoetic
New York people analytics platform combining workforce data and AI for chief people officers.
Particle Health
New York company providing an API that retrieves and structures patient medical records for health applications.
Yuzu Health
New York company building software infrastructure for launching and administering health plans.
In the news
- AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talksListen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
TechCrunch Venture · Sep 9, 2026
- The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 9/8/26The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 9/5/26 featuring funding details for Lyte AI, Crusoe, SciFin, and twenty-one other deals representing $4.6B in new funding that you need to know about.
AlleyWatch · Sep 8, 2026
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