Venture firm in listed AI tools

Menlo Ventures

Menlo Ventures has backed 18 companies behind 21 listings on Anchor Terminal.

Venture firm

Menlo Ventures has backed 18 companies behind 21 listings on Anchor Terminal.

Companies on Anchor Terminal

Project Affinity, Inc. Series C, led a round
- Affinity B · CRM & customer platforms
Source affinity.co/press-release/…
Anthropic Series E, March 2025, Series G, February 2026
- Claude API BB · Model APIs & inference
- Claude Agent SDK BB · Agent frameworks & SDKs
- Claude Code C · Agent harnesses
Source anthropic.com/news/…
Anthropic, PBC Series E, March 2025, Series G, February 2026
- Claude Duet F · Personal assistants
Source anthropic.com/news/…
Elorian
- Glimpse D · Model APIs & inference
Source elorian.ai
Profound Platform Inc. (dba Finch) Series A, June 2022, Series B, February 2023, led a round
- Finch BB · Payroll infrastructure
Source tryfinch.com/blog/…
Source tryfinch.com/blog/…
Higgsfield Inc. Series A extension, January 2026
- Higgsfield API B · Video generation
Source techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/…
Modal Series C, May 2026, Series D, October 2026
- Modal B · GPU & serverless compute
- Modal Sandboxes B · Code execution sandboxes
Source modal.com/blog/…
All Hands AI Seed, September 2024, Series A, November 2025, led a round
- OpenHands BB · Agent harnesses
Source openhands.dev/blog/…
OpenRouter Series B, May 2026
- OpenRouter B · Model APIs & inference
Source openrouter.ai/blog/…
Orb, Inc. Series B, September 2024
- Orb B · Payment & monetisation platforms
Source withorb.com/blog/series-b
Particle Health, Inc. Series A, March 2020, Series B, July 2022, led a round
- Particle Health D · Health records & wellness data
Source particlehealth.com/blog/…
Pinecone Series A, March 2022, Series B, April 2023, led a round
- Pinecone API + MCP BB · Retrieval & vector search
Source pinecone.io/newsroom/…
Prime Intellect Seed, February 2025
- Prime Agent C · Agent harnesses
Source primeintellect.ai/blog/fundraise
ShipBob, Inc. Series C, September 2018, Series E, June 2021, led a round
- ShipBob C · Shipping & fulfilment
Source shipbob.com/blog/series-c-funding
Town.com, Inc. Series B, October 2026, led a round
- Town D · Personal assistants
Source town.com/press/series-b
Conway Research (maker of Underdog) First round, April 2026, through Anthology fund
- Underdog F · Local AI
Source underdog.ai/backers
Conway Research First round, April 2026, through Anthology fund
- Underdog Bark 3.0 D · Speech-to-text
Source underdog.ai/backers
Unstructured Series B, March 2024, led a round
- Unstructured API + MCP D · Document parsing & extraction
Source pillsburylaw.com/en/…

Where they invest

Model APIs & inference 3 Agent harnesses 3 Personal assistants 2 CRM & customer platforms 1 Agent frameworks & SDKs 1 Payroll infrastructure 1 Video generation 1 GPU & serverless compute 1 Code execution sandboxes 1 Payment & monetisation platforms 1 Health records & wellness data 1 Retrieval & vector search 1 Shipping & fulfilment 1 Local AI 1 Speech-to-text 1 Document parsing & extraction 1

Founders they backed

Dario Amodei Anthropic
Daniela Amodei Anthropic
Tom Brown Anthropic
Jack Clark Anthropic
Jared Kaplan Anthropic
Sam McCandlish Anthropic
Chris Olah Anthropic
Karan Ahuja Anthropic, PBC
Andrew Dai Elorian
Yinfei Yang Elorian
Seth Neel Elorian
Jeremy Zhang Profound Platform Inc. (dba Finch)
Ansel Parikh Profound Platform Inc. (dba Finch)
Robert Brennan All Hands AI
Xingyao Wang All Hands AI
Alex Atallah OpenRouter
Chris Clark OpenRouter
Louis Vichy OpenRouter
Alvaro Morales Orb, Inc.
Kshitij Grover Orb, Inc.
Troy Bannister Particle Health, Inc.
Dan Horbatt Particle Health, Inc.
Edo Liberty Pinecone
Divey Gulati ShipBob, Inc.
Dhruv Saxena ShipBob, Inc.
Jean-Denis Greze Town.com, Inc.
Tony Vincent Town.com, Inc.
Sigil Wen Conway Research (maker of Underdog), Conway Research
Brian S. Raymond Unstructured

Questions

Which AI tools has Menlo Ventures invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Project Affinity, Inc., Anthropic, Anthropic, PBC, Elorian, Profound Platform Inc. (dba Finch), Higgsfield Inc., Modal, All Hands AI, OpenRouter, Orb, Inc., Particle Health, Inc., Pinecone, Prime Intellect, ShipBob, Inc., Town.com, Inc., Conway Research (maker of Underdog), Conway Research and Unstructured backed by Menlo Ventures.

How are Menlo Ventures's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Affinity (B, 63.4), Claude API (BB, 77.3), Claude Agent SDK (BB, 70.1), Claude Code (C, 59.9), Claude Duet (F, 17.9), Glimpse (D, 49), Finch (BB, 71.7), Higgsfield API (B, 63.6), Modal (B, 63.7), Modal Sandboxes (B, 66), OpenHands (BB, 71), OpenRouter (B, 68.6), Orb (B, 66.6), Particle Health (D, 48.8), Pinecone API + MCP (BB, 77.2), Prime Agent (C, 60.5), ShipBob (C, 60.9), Town (D, 48.8), Underdog (F, 30.1), Underdog Bark 3.0 (D, 48.2) and Unstructured API + MCP (D, 47.2).

Investors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source and the date it was researched. An investor isn't a sign of quality, and nobody can pay to be listed or to change a grade. To correct something or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.