Congratulations, Sana, for being recognized in Fast Company's "The 11 next big moves in AI and data innovations for 2024"! The Sana team transforms how enterprises manage and access their collective knowledge. By connecting siloed information across tools and making it instantly accessible; they're helping teams work smarter and faster. Read: https://lnkd.in/d3YzkE5i

⏰ With 60 days to TechCon SoCal ⏰ Introducing Houman Haghighi, Partner at Menlo Ventures! 🚀✨ With a passion for driving growth, Houman plays a pivotal role in accelerating the success of Menlo Ventures’ portfolio companies. Drawing on his deep network and expertise, he crafts strategic partnerships, facilitates customer connections, and supports additional funding rounds to scale businesses. A true innovator, Houman has a rich legacy at Qualcomm, where he led groundbreaking initiatives like Whispernet, the technology behind Amazon Kindle's seamless book delivery. 📚💡 His experience spans engineering, project management, and product development, along with mentoring AI and robotics startups through the Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator. Fun fact: Houman holds two U.S. patents and has a background in computational cognitive science from UC San Diego. Whether it’s scaling startups or exploring the brain-computer connection, his thirst for innovation never stops! 🌐🤖 Don’t miss Houman’s insights at TechCon SoCal 2025! 📅 January 17-18, San Diego Register now 👉 www.techconsocal.com Watch our teaser video to see what’s in store at TechCon SoCal 2025! https://lnkd.in/diacNCYS Tariq Ahmed Serhat Pala Neal Bloom Sufyan Subzwari Jonah Peake 🐺 NuFund Venture Group Interlock Capital OPEN Silicon Valley Orange County OC Startup Council #TechConSoCal2025 #TechConSoCal #IndustryExperts #TechConference #InnovationSummit #TechTalks #Innovation #Technology #Networking #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHealth #Robotics #startups #vc #SandDiegoStartup #Founders #ConsumerTech

⏰ With 60 days to TechCon SoCal ⏰ Introducing Houman Haghighi, Partner at Menlo Ventures! 🚀✨ With a passion for driving growth, Houman plays a pivotal role in accelerating the success of Menlo Ventures’ portfolio companies. Drawing on his deep network and expertise, he crafts strategic partnerships, facilitates customer connections, and supports additional funding rounds to scale businesses. A true innovator, Houman has a rich legacy at Qualcomm, where he led groundbreaking initiatives like Whispernet, the technology behind Amazon Kindle's seamless book delivery. 📚💡 His experience spans engineering, project management, and product development, along with mentoring AI and robotics startups through the Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator. Fun fact: Houman holds two U.S. patents and has a background in computational cognitive science from UC San Diego. Whether it’s scaling startups or exploring the brain-computer connection, his thirst for innovation never stops! 🌐🤖 Don’t miss Houman’s insights at TechCon SoCal 2025! 📅 January 17-18, San Diego Register now 👉 www.techconsocal.com Watch our teaser video to see what’s in store at TechCon SoCal 2025! https://lnkd.in/diacNCYS Tariq Ahmed Serhat Pala Neal Bloom Sufyan Subzwari Jonah Peake 🐺 NuFund Venture Group Interlock Capital OPEN Silicon Valley Orange County OC Startup Council #TechConSoCal2025 #TechConSoCal #IndustryExperts #TechConference #InnovationSummit #TechTalks #Innovation #Technology #Networking #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHealth #Robotics #startups #vc #SandDiegoStartup #Founders #ConsumerTech

🚨 Big news! 🚨 Last year, we pivoted Endgame to solve the most important question in sales: What do buyers really care about? (Hint: It’s not another AI-generated email.) Today, we're thrilled to launch Endgame 2.0, an AI-native product that helps sellers build trust with buyers. We're not creating AI SDRs or investing in spammy sales tactics. Instead, we use AI to help sellers truly understand their buyers. Every buyer wants a seller who understands their needs and can be a trusted advisor helping them make the right decisions for their business. That’s how the best sellers operate. They go deep: They research, prepare, map out the buyer’s world, and keep up with every change. But even for top sellers, this process is manual, repetitive, and takes incredible effort, so they’re limited to focusing on just a few accounts. Endgame 2.0 changes that. Discover how in the video below, and check out our blog post for details 👇

Had a blast hosting an intimate dinner bringing together fellow #MIT alums who are building #AI companies here in the Bay Area! What makes MIT special isn't just the brilliant minds, but how everyone channels their passion for science and engineering into creating real-world impact. We're planning more gatherings, so DM me if you're an MIT alum working in AI!

What does Menlo Ventures look for in a cybersecurity investment? 💰We are unveiling our new checklist! 📋We are looking for: ✅Cloud-native and AI-native product architectures 🛠️ ✅Teams that combine security DNA and AI talent 🧠 ✅AI agents that make Service-as-Software a reality in cyber 🤖 ✅Founders solving data and identity security problems 🔒 ✅Dead simple UI/ UX ✨ Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gs-d8GcR Venky Ganesan Feyza Haskaraman Samantha Borja Menlo Ventures #cyber #security #AI

The AI era calls for a new cybersecurity investment framework. In 2021 Venky Ganesan published a list of investment criteria that guided Menlo’s investments in cyber breakouts like Abnormal Security, Obsidian Security, Mimic, and Bitsight. Today, we’re releasing v2.0 –updated for an AI-first world. https://lnkd.in/gApTQj4a Written by Rama Sekhar, Feyza Haskaraman, and Samantha Borja, our new Cybersecurity Checklist was revised to reflect the new dynamics of an AI-first world

Menlo's partner Greg Yap shared with Endpoints News: The future of AI in healthcare isn't about who builds it first, but who builds solutions that stay valuable as the technology becomes accessible to all. Full article here: https://lnkd.in/gsXjYG-j

🤖 🚀 Anthropic Builder’s Day: Where AI Builders Came to Innovate 🚀 This past weekend, Anthropic, in partnership with Menlo Ventures, hosted its first-ever Builder’s Day in San Francisco, bringing together 200+ of the most talented developers to explore what’s possible with Claude. The event was packed with engaging talks, a mini-hackathon, and groundbreaking project demos. Here's a quick recap of what went down and the innovative projects that took the spotlight: We kicked off with an inspiring fireside chat with Dario Amodei, setting the tone for a day filled with exploration and ambition. Technical talks followed, including insights from Alex Albert on Anthropic's recent launches and interpretability advances, and a presentation from @mlpowered on the latest in interpretability. The Mini-Hackathon—the heart of Builder’s Day—challenged participants to bring their ideas to life in hours, thanks to Claude’s powerful tools. This format proved just how fast innovation can happen, with projects emerging that previously would have taken days. Here’s a look at the top winners and projects: 1. Robot Use 🥇 - 1st Place    - A Claude-powered robotic arm that performed real-world tasks by simply uploading an instruction manual. This project demonstrated how Claude can bring robotics and AI together seamlessly—imagine controlling robots with just a document! 2. China Town Mafia 🥈 - 2nd Place    - An innovative anti-captcha system designed to detect AI agents attempting to solve verification puzzles. This project brought a fresh, AI-driven approach to cybersecurity. 3. Plan Prism 🥉 - 3rd Place    - A system that uses AI agents to enhance and debate Product Requirement Documents (PRDs), illustrating a future where AI can assist or even replace product managers. 4. Yap to App    - An app that lets you control a computer purely by voice, merging Apple scripting with speech-to-text models for an impressive hands-free experience. 5. RAGs to Riches    - An AI-powered text agent for CalFresh (California food stamps) inquiries, showing how AI can assist with welfare and social services. After a whirlwind day, attendees wrapped up with final project demos and prize announcements, where judges were faced with the difficult task of selecting winners from over 100 high-quality submissions. Special thanks to hosts and judges Alex Albert, Soheil K, Deedy Das, CC Gong, and Dario Amodei for their roles in making this event a success! Couldn’t join this time? Don’t worry—another hackathon with Anthropic and @AgentOpsAI is coming up soon. Stay tuned and keep building the future with Claude! 🤖 Check out these Thread Reader App summaries of the event: From Alex Albert (Anthropic): 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gV2Z87Ae From Alex Reibman: 🔗https://lnkd.in/gk7N7P9d For transparency, sharing the chat used to generate this summary post: https://lnkd.in/gd7h6Fet