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Menlo Ventures

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Menlo Ventures provides capital for seed through growth technology companies in the consumer and enterprise sectors. For decades, the firm’s market-driven research analysis has led to the identification of and successful exits in innovative technology markets. Notable research-areas of investment include Mobile (Siri, MobiTV, TeleNav), Enterprise storage (3Par), Communications (Acme Packet, Cavium Networks), and Consumer (Carbonite, Roku). Founded in 1976, Menlo’s portfolio includes 70 public companies and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions. Throughout our history, Menlo’s deep network of portfolio entrepreneurs, angels and advisors are a key resource made available to all of our family of investments. Menlo Ventures has $4 billion under management and is currently investing Menlo Ventures XI, a $400M fund with $20m allocated to our Menlo Talent Fund for fast seed funding. For more information, visit www.menlovc.com.

Recent Milestones

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  Menlo Ventures invested in OwnerListens . (5/13/13)
  Posted 5/13/13 at 11:14pm via techcrunch.com
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  Menlo Ventures invested in Pluribus Networks. (3/25/13)
  Posted 12/20/12 at 7:05pm via freshnews.com
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  Menlo Ventures invested in Nexenta Systems. (2/27/13)
  Posted 2/27/13 at 6:41pm via techcrunch.com
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  Menlo Ventures invested in GroupTalent. (2/14/13)
  Posted 2/13/13 at 7:09pm via techcrunch.com
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  Menlo Ventures invested in DataXu. (2/7/13)
  Posted 2/7/13 at 6:41pm via techcrunch.com
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  Menlo Ventures invested in Emu Chat. (1/28/13)
  Posted 4/15/13 at 3:16pm
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  Menlo Ventures invested in Circa. (1/19/13)
  Posted 1/19/13 at 8:02pm via techcrunch.com
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  Menlo Ventures invested in Nexxo Financial. (1/7/13)
  Posted 1/27/13 at 9:24pm via sec.gov
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  Menlo Ventures invested in Poshmark. (12/4/12)
  Posted 12/4/12 at 9:01pm via venturebeat.com
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  Menlo Ventures invested in Cinemagram. (11/30/12)
  Posted 11/30/12 at 6:25pm via techcrunch.com
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  Menlo Ventures invested in Munchery. (11/9/12)
  Posted 11/8/12 at 11:42pm via techcrunch.com
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  Menlo Ventures invested in Flurry. (11/1/12)
  Posted 11/2/12 at 7:42am via allthingsd.com
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  Menlo Ventures invested in UrbanSitter. (10/15/12)
  Posted 10/15/12 at 5:31am via dowjones.com
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  Menlo Ventures invested in Kidaptive. (10/13/12)
  Posted 10/12/12 at 9:11pm via techcrunch.com
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  Menlo Ventures invested in Betterment. (10/3/12)
  Posted 10/3/12 at 6:12am via techcrunch.com
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  Menlo Ventures invested in Entelo. (10/3/12)
  Posted 10/3/12 at 12:56am

Investments

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1. Menlo Ventures Closes Much Smaller Fund Eleven At $400M (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
2. Menlo Ventures starts $20M early-stage investment fund (venturebeat.com) [edit]
3. OwnerListens Raises $1.1M To Keep Angry Customers From Running To Yelp (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Pluribus Networks Receives Strategic Investment from China Broadband Capital (freshnews.com) [edit]
5. Data Storage Software Company Nexenta Systems Raises $24M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. GroupTalent Grabs $1M From Founders Co-Op, Menlo & Others To Help Businesses Connect With Top Technical Talent (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. DataXu Raises $27M For Real-Time, Data-Driven Ad Buying (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Citation Needed [add]
9. Circa Raises $750K From Group Including Lerer Ventures To Revolutionize Mobile News Delivery (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. Edgar Report (sec.gov) [edit]
11. Fashion app Poshmark pulls in $12M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
12. Cinemagram Raises $8.5M Series A Led By Menlo Ventures To Make Mobile Photo Sharing More Animated (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Meals Marketplace Munchery Raises $4 Million For Expansion, Now Delivering High-Quality Meals To All Of Bay Area, L.A. In 2013 (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Investors Plug Another $25 Million Into IPO-Bound Flurry (allthingsd.com) [edit]
15. UrbanSitter Secures $6M at $20M Valuation (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
16. Kidaptive Raises Large Seed Round From Menlo, CrunchFund & Others To Bring Children’s Educational Apps To iPad (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. Investment Platform For Your Savings, Betterment Raises $10M From Menlo Ventures, Bessemer (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. Citation Needed [add]
19. eXelate Raises $12 Million in Series C Funding (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
20. CouchSurfing Raises $15 Million Series B From General Catalyst Partners, Menlo Ventures, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. Lumosity Raises $31.5M From Discovery Communications For Brain Fitness Games (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. OrderAhead Nabs $2.3M From Adam D’Angelo, Matrix, Eric Schmidt For Ordering On The Go (techcrunch.com) [edit]
23. Getaround Raises $13.9M Series A Led By Menlo Ventures, Launches Getaway For Managed Car Rentals (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. Roku Becomes Pay TV’s Streaming Box Of Choice, Raises $45 Million From News Corp, BSkyB, And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
25. Tintri Raises $25 Million For Storage Designed To Improve Virtual Machine Environments (techcrunch.com) [edit]
26. Fab Seals The Deal On $105 Million In New Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
27. Avere Raises $20M to Help Corporations Store and Manage Data (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
28. DROPCAM CLOSES $12M IN SERIES B FUNDING LED BY MENLO VENTURES (freshnews.com) [edit]
29. With $20 Billion In Consumer Debt Under Management, Credit Sesame Closes $12 Million Series B (techcrunch.com) [edit]
30. Juniper Networks Invests In Video Conferencing Startup Vidyo, Bringing Total Funding To $97M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
31. Zimbio Raises $8.9 Million in Series B Funding (zimbioinc.com) [edit]
32. Messaging Startup SendHub Raises $2M From Kapor, Menlo Ventures, 500 Startups, Angels & Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. NComputing raises $21.8M round as desktop virtualization drives computing costs lower (venturebeat.com) [edit]
34. Freemium Game Dev Addmired Rebrands As Machine Zone, Lands $8M From Menlo Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
35. New York Times (dealbook.nytimes.com) [edit]
36. Scan Gets $1.7M From Google Ventures And Shervin Pishevar To Make QR Codes Actually Useful (techcrunch.com) [edit]
37. Lady Gaga-Backed Backplane Raises Over $4M From Sequoia & More; Acquires Sharing Platform Cortex (techcrunch.com) [edit]
38. Talari Networks Secures $4.5M in Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
39. Data Storage Company Nexenta Scores $21 Million In Series C Funding (tctechcrunch2011.wordpress.com) [edit]
40. Sarah Lacy’s PandoDaily launches with $2.5 million in funding (gigaom.com) [edit]
41. Travis Kalanick: Uber Raised $37M In Its Latest Round, Not $32M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
42. Design-Focused Flash Sales Site Fab.com Raises $40M From Andreessen Horowitz, Ashton Kutcher (techcrunch.com) [edit]
43. Citation Needed [add]
44. Benchmark, Marissa Mayer Put $5.5M In Stationery Design And Retail Site Minted (techcrunch.com) [edit]
45. Comprehend Systems Closes $1.2M in Seed Funding (comprehend.com) [edit]
46. Coraid Raises $50 Million For Next-Gen Elastic Data Storage (techcrunch.com) [edit]
47. Citation Needed [add]
48. Enflick Raises $1M From Freestyle Capital, Menlo Talent Fund, Lady Gaga And Bieber's Managers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
49. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
50. Vidyo Raises $22.5M in Series D funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
51. Stylish Eyewear Maker Warby Parker Tries On $12M In Funding (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
52. F Surgical Systems Closes $12M Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
53. nLIGHT Raises $17.5 Million Investment to Accelerate Growth (nlight.net) [edit]
54. Eric Schmidt, Tomorrow Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Founders Fund / Angel Fund, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Vast Ventures, Metamorphic Ventures, WGI Group, Harbor Pacific Capital Partners (techcrunch.com) [edit]
55. Roku grabs $8M, weeks after releasing Roku 2 (venturebeat.com) [edit]
56. Ashton Kutcher-Backed Fab.com Closes $7.7 Million (businessinsider.com) [edit]
57. YC-Funded Parse: A Heroku For Mobile Apps (techcrunch.com) [edit]
58. techcrunch.com [edit]
59. techcrunch.com [edit]
60. ParAccel Receives Additional Investment from Amazon.com (finsmes.com) [edit]
61. Glympse Raises $7.5 Million To Help You Share Your Location, A Few Hours At A Time (techcrunch.com) [edit]
62. Lumos Labs raises $32.5m: Largest Cognitive/ Brain Fitness Investment so far (sharpbrains.com) [edit]
63. PowerReviews Raises $10 Million To Power Customer Reviews For Retailers And Brands (techcrunch.com) [edit]
64. Social Photo Aggregator Pixable Raises $3.6 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
65. Credit Sesame Raises $6.15 Million, Helps Users Manage Credits And Loans (techcrunch.com) [edit]
66. 3VR Secures $17 Million in Funding to Bring Intelligent Video Search to Broader Market Global Leader in Intelligent Video Search and Analytics Concludes Record Year With Funding and New Addition to the Management Team (pr-inside.com) [edit]
67. Media6Degrees Closes $17 Million Series B Round Led by Menlo Ventures (media6degrees.com) [edit]
68. Mobile app analytics firm Flurry closes $15 million Series C round (fiercemobilecontent.com) [edit]
69. Coraid Closes $25M Series B Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
70. AeroScout Raises $16 Million For Real-Time Location Technology (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
71. techcrunch.com [edit]
72. Payment Platform PlaySpan Raises $18 Million From Vodafone, Softbank (paidcontent.org) [edit]
73. Talari Networks gets $10M to make company networks 99.99% reliable (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
74. Avere Systems raises $17M to beef up enterprise storage (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
75. As Regulatory Scrutiny Intensfies, Ad Targeter eXelate Adds To Second Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
76. Wellcore secures $2M for fall detection system (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
77. OnRequest Images takes $2M more for global custom photography (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
78. Crowdcast Raises $6 Million For ‘Social Business Intelligence’ Solutions (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
79. Google Leads $23 Million Round In TV Ad Startup Invidi (techcrunch.com) [edit]
80. EdgeCast Secures $10 Million From Menlo Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
81. Vidyo Scores Monster $25M Funding Round (newteevee.com) [edit]
82. Socialcast Raises $8 Million Series B To Spread Its Realtime Enterprise Streams (techcrunch.com) [edit]
83. ReadyForce Raises $12.2 Million For On-Demand Labor Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
84. PatientSafe Solutions, Inc.: Series B $30M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
85. TC50 Finalist DataXu Scores $11 Million More For Online Ad Bidding Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
86. Citation Needed [add]
87. Mog closes $9.5m funding led by Balderton Capital and Menlo Ventures, SEC (gigaom.com) [edit]
88. Video Ad Start-Up YuMe Raises $25 Million (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
89. EDGAR [edit]
90. LensVector (lensvector.com) [edit]
91. Pliant catches $27.3M for enterprise flash drives (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
92. Citation Needed [add]
93. Branders.com Scores Another $5 Million In Venture Capital (techcrunch.com) [edit]
94. Siri raises $15.5M more for virtual personal assistant (venturebeat.com) [edit]
95. Intransa raises $1.5M for Ethernet storage (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
96. San Jose Business Journal (sanjose.bizjournals.com) [edit]
97. Firetide raises $8.6M to provide wireless mesh networks (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
98. MOG Raises Another $5 Million As Traffic Nearly Doubles Since January (techcrunch.com) [edit]
99. 3VR finds $12M for searchable surveillance (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
100. Driver safety company DriveCam steers in $19m in Series D funding (altassets.net) [edit]
101. Roku Adds $8.4 Million In Funding From Menlo Ventures (paidcontent.org) [edit]
102. Santur Lands $13M (lightreading.com) [edit]
103. SCHOONER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RAISES $20 MILLION IN SECOND-ROUND FUNDING TO FUEL WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION OF GROUNDBREAKING DATA ACCESS APPLIANCES (freshnews.com) [edit]
104. ParAccel brings in $22M for analytical databases (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
105. Kazeon captures $10M for advanced search and discovery (venturebeat.com) [edit]
106. Sepaton Wins $15.5M Series F Round (xconomy.com) [edit]
107. Pliant Tech Raises $15 Million (sanjose.bizjournals.com) [edit]
108. Vidyo Nabs $15 Million Third Round; Adds New CFO (paidcontent.org) [edit]
109. Rivulet Communications Raises $11.5 M in Series C Funding (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
110. RNA Networks nails $7 million (techflash.com) [edit]
111. Talari Networks raises $6.2 million for networking gear (venturebeat.com) [edit]
112. nLIGHT Adds $10.7 Million in Growth Capital (nlight.net) [edit]
113. IMVU Closes $10 Million Financing Led by Best Buy Capital (tradingmarkets.com) [edit]
114. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
115. EDGAR [edit]
116. VBrick Lands $11.9M for Enterprise Video (contentinople.com) [edit]
117. Roku, Inc. Receives Funding From Menlo Ventures (biz.yahoo.com) [edit]
118. Intransa gets $15M for video surveillance storage (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
119. Siri, the stealth mode startup raises $8.5 million in Series A (startupmeme.com) [edit]
120. Mass High Tech (masshightech.com) [edit]
121. Aprius Raises $20M to Advance I/O Virtualization Systems (aprius.com) [edit]
122. SpeedDate Scores $6 Million For Matchmaking In A Hurry (techcrunch.com) [edit]
123. Like.com Closes $32 Million Third Round; Got In Before The Bust (paidcontent.org) [edit]
124. Broadband TV Company Entone Raises $14.5 Million Second Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
125. PlaySpan Plays With $5 Million Venture Capital (venturedeal.com) [edit]
126. Parascale Secures $11.37 Million in Series a Funding (biz.yahoo.com) [edit]
127. EDGAR [edit]
128. DiVitas Networks Gets $15 Million in Venture Capital (ipcommunications.tmcnet.com) [edit]
129. EPAC Technologies Inc. Obtains $20,000,000 New Financing (xconomy.com) [edit]
130. Stretch Inc. Raises $15M in Funding (stretchinc.com) [edit]
131. BizJournals (bizjournals.com) [edit]
132. Mobile coupon company Cellfire raises $12m (venturebeat.com) [edit]
133. thealarmclock.com [edit]
134. Jobfox expanding, raises $20M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
135. EDGAR [edit]
136. NComputing Raises $28 Million to Fund Global Expansion (ncomputing.com) [edit]
137. INVIDI Technologies Corporation Completes $25 Million Third Round of Financing (invidi.com) [edit]
138. Mobius Microsystems raises $10.22M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
139. Voltage raises $12M more for encryption technology. (venturebeat.com) [edit]
140. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
141. Authoria Secures $22.5 Million in Funding; Grows Bookings by 40 Percent (authoria.com) [edit]
142. Quellan Raises $20M in New Financing Round (quellan.com) [edit]
143. Atlanta IC Developer VT Silicon Receives $3.3 Million Series A Funding to Develop WiMax Chips (vtsilicon.com) [edit]
144. muniwireless.com [edit]
145. techcrunch.com [edit]
146. techcrunch.com [edit]
147. Zimbio raises $6.8M for online magazines (venturebeat.com) [edit]
148. newScale raises $11M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
149. muniwireless.com [edit]
150. EDGAR [edit]
151. WiQuest Raises $28M in Series C Funding (texastechpulse.com) [edit]
152. Stretch Inc. Announces Series B Funding Round (stretchinc.com) [edit]
153. EDGAR [edit]
154. GTRONIX RAISES $10 MILLION IN THIRD ROUND OF VENTURE FUNDING (gtronix.com) [edit]
155. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
156. Carbonite, online backup company, raises $15M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
157. Solidcore Closes $10 Million Series D Financing with More than Four-Times Year over Year Revenue Growth (solidcore.com) [edit]
158. IMVU Inc. announced that it has received $9 million in funding from Allegis Capital amd Menlo Ventures. (investing.businessweek.com) [edit]
159. SEPATON Closes $22 Million in New Funding (sepaton.com) [edit]
160. EDGAR [edit]
161. DriveCam Inc. Secures $28 Million Series C Financing (drivecam.com) [edit]
162. Aquest, semiconductor manufacturing automation co., receives $20M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
163. EDGAR [edit]
164. Benchmark backs LiveOps $28M round (benchmark.com) [edit]
165. Citation Needed [add]
166. EDGAR [edit]
167. Venture Beat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
168. venturebeat.com [edit]
169. Tablus raises $16M for yet another content compliance software effort (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
170. Citation Needed [add]
171. Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal (sanjose.bizjournals.com) [edit]
172. PE Week Wire: 8.16.06 (buyoutsnews.com) [edit]
173. Kazeon Gets $21M Venture Boost (networkcomputing.com) [edit]
174. DiVitas Networks Raises $15 Million in Series B Funding (divitas.com) [edit]
175. EDGAR [edit]
176. Cellfire Raises $10M Series B (techcrunch.com) [edit]
177. moconews.net [edit]
178. EPAC Secures $40M Round of Funding (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
179. Stretch Inc. (stretchinc.com) [edit]
180. interbiznet.com [edit]
181. WiQuest secures $18 million in second-round funds (powermanagementdesignline.com) [edit]
182. tradevibes.com [edit]
183. paidcontent.org [edit]
184. paidcontent.org [edit]
185. EDGAR [edit]
186. EDGAR [edit]
187. Solidcore Systems raises $10M third round funding (sanjose.bizjournals.com) [edit]
188. Asempra Technologies gets $20M funding (sanjose.bizjournals.com) [edit]
189. EDGAR [edit]
190. Movaz Bags $20M More (lightreading.com) [edit]
191. Enuclia Semiconductor Secures $13 Million in Series B Financing Led by Menlo Ventures (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
192. EDGAR [edit]
193. ENCIRQ Raises $14 Million in Series B Funding for Rapid Global Expansion (newsblaze.com) [edit]
194. TeleNav Secures $30 Million in Private Funding (telenav.com) [edit]
195. EDGAR [edit]
196. Article: Sequence Closes $5.3 Million Funding Round; Expands Into Fast-Growing International Markets, Boosts R&D To Maintain Low-Power Tech Lead. (highbeam.com) [edit]
197. Citation Needed [add]
198. NetContinuum Secures $15M in Financing and Appoints Former Extreme Networks Executive as CEO (www2.prnewswire.com) [edit]
199. Quellan Announces US$12 Million in Private Financing Round. (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
200. EDGAR [edit]
201. DriveCam, Inc. Completes $18 Million Series B Financing; Menlo Ventures and JMI Equity Provide Funds for Rapid Market Expansion (theautochannel.com) [edit]
202. Voltage Securityâ„¢ Raises $15M in Series C Funding (voltage.com) [edit]
203. Ingrian Nets $15.4 Million in Fourth Round Fundin (ingrian.com) [edit]
204. newScale Secures $15 Million in Series C Funding (newscale.com) [edit]
205. Vhayu Closes $10.25M Series C Round of Funding; Silicon Valley Bank and Menlo Ventures Fund Drive for Global Distribution of Real-Time Market Data Analysis Platform (findarticles.com) [edit]
206. EDGAR [edit]
207. SolidCore raises $20M in funding (siliconindia.com) [edit]
208. Vocent Appoints CRM Industry Veteran Jeff Scheel as CEO (crm2day.com) [edit]
209. Bluesocket Raises $10 Million in Funding Round. (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
210. MobiTV, Inc. Raises $15 million in Series B Financing to Drive International Expansion of MobiTV (mobitv.com) [edit]
211. Citation Needed [add]
212. Firetide raises $13.6M in second round of funding (sanjose.bizjournals.com) [edit]
213. AlarmClock (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
214. Landmark Networks Closes Series A at $3.2M (landmarknetworks.com) [edit]
215. Broadband TV Company Entone Raises $14.5 Million Second Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
216. IronPort press release (ironport.com) [edit]
217. Broncus Technologies lines up venture debt financing for emphysema treatment (venturebeat.com) [edit]