Menlo Ventures

Menlo Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 1976 that provides capital to consumer and technology companies across the United States. It funds seed through growth-stage ventures in sectors including computer hardware, software, big data, fintech, and healthcare, as well as related areas such as life sciences technology and smart cloud infrastructure. Based in San Francisco, the firm pursues a market-driven approach to identify opportunities and supports portfolio companies through multiple stages of development. Menlo Ventures emphasizes backing capital-efficient businesses with potential to disrupt large markets and maintains an active role in the companies it supports, alongside a track record of notable investments in diverse technology and consumer sectors. The firm seeks opportunities in early and growth-stage companies across the technology spectrum and strives to partner with teams delivering innovative products and services.

Michelle Aguinis

Investor

Aunkur Arya

Venture Partner

Croom Beatty

Partner

Sam Borja

Investor

Shawn Carolan

Partner

Past deals in Database

Neon

Venture Round in 2024
Neon is a cloud-native, fully managed Postgres as a service. By separating storage from computing, Neon offers autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage to give developers a simple, reliable, and powerful experience. Neon aims to provide a highly performant and cost-effective database infrastructure by leveraging cloud-native technologies and innovative architectural features.

Neon

Series B in 2023
Neon is a cloud-native, fully managed Postgres as a service. By separating storage from computing, Neon offers autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage to give developers a simple, reliable, and powerful experience. Neon aims to provide a highly performant and cost-effective database infrastructure by leveraging cloud-native technologies and innovative architectural features.

Pinecone

Series B in 2023
Pinecone is a technology company that specializes in developing a vector database designed to facilitate the integration of company data with generative AI models. Its platform provides a suite of tools, including vector search libraries and filtering capabilities, which enhance the efficiency and reliability of machine learning applications. By enabling real-time serving engines for deep learning retrieval, Pinecone allows developers to transform, search, and rank multidimensional vectors swiftly, supporting the deployment of complex machine learning models at scale.

RelationalAI

Series B in 2022
RelationalAI is a company that specializes in creating a relational knowledge graph system aimed at addressing complex business challenges. By focusing on the intricate interdependencies and structures present in organizations, RelationalAI enhances the capabilities of the modern data stack. This innovation accelerates the development of intelligent applications by enabling entrepreneurs to build data-centric solutions with integrated semantic layers. The company's approach seeks to simplify the process of codifying and leveraging knowledge, thereby lowering barriers for businesses to create and utilize intelligent applications effectively.

Pinecone

Series A in 2022
Pinecone is a technology company that specializes in developing a vector database designed to facilitate the integration of company data with generative AI models. Its platform provides a suite of tools, including vector search libraries and filtering capabilities, which enhance the efficiency and reliability of machine learning applications. By enabling real-time serving engines for deep learning retrieval, Pinecone allows developers to transform, search, and rank multidimensional vectors swiftly, supporting the deployment of complex machine learning models at scale.

Yellowbrick Data

Series C in 2021
Yellowbrick Data is a data warehouse company that designs and deploys analytics-focused data warehouse platforms for on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud environments, including cloud disaster recovery. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, it serves enterprises with a scalable system that supports thousands of concurrent users and petabytes of data while running complex workloads with fast, consistent results. The platform offers on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud deployment with simple, uniform management and strong economics, enabling analytics across any schema and ad-hoc SQL queries. Yellowbrick Data emphasizes high availability, performance, and easy deployment in hybrid environments to speed decision-making through unified data analytics. The company maintains additional offices in Salt Lake City, Hong Kong, and London.

Yellowbrick Data

Series C in 2019
Yellowbrick Data is a data warehouse company that designs and deploys analytics-focused data warehouse platforms for on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud environments, including cloud disaster recovery. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, it serves enterprises with a scalable system that supports thousands of concurrent users and petabytes of data while running complex workloads with fast, consistent results. The platform offers on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud deployment with simple, uniform management and strong economics, enabling analytics across any schema and ad-hoc SQL queries. Yellowbrick Data emphasizes high availability, performance, and easy deployment in hybrid environments to speed decision-making through unified data analytics. The company maintains additional offices in Salt Lake City, Hong Kong, and London.

Yellowbrick Data

Series B in 2018
Yellowbrick Data is a data warehouse company that designs and deploys analytics-focused data warehouse platforms for on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud environments, including cloud disaster recovery. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, it serves enterprises with a scalable system that supports thousands of concurrent users and petabytes of data while running complex workloads with fast, consistent results. The platform offers on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud deployment with simple, uniform management and strong economics, enabling analytics across any schema and ad-hoc SQL queries. Yellowbrick Data emphasizes high availability, performance, and easy deployment in hybrid environments to speed decision-making through unified data analytics. The company maintains additional offices in Salt Lake City, Hong Kong, and London.

Yellowbrick Data

Series A in 2018
Yellowbrick Data is a data warehouse company that designs and deploys analytics-focused data warehouse platforms for on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud environments, including cloud disaster recovery. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, it serves enterprises with a scalable system that supports thousands of concurrent users and petabytes of data while running complex workloads with fast, consistent results. The platform offers on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud deployment with simple, uniform management and strong economics, enabling analytics across any schema and ad-hoc SQL queries. Yellowbrick Data emphasizes high availability, performance, and easy deployment in hybrid environments to speed decision-making through unified data analytics. The company maintains additional offices in Salt Lake City, Hong Kong, and London.

Reniac

Venture Round in 2017
Reniac, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in designing and developing intelligent data-aware architectures for applications, servers, and data storage systems. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional locations in Hyderabad, India, and Richmond, Canada, Reniac focuses on creating a distributed data engine that enhances performance by addressing bottlenecks in data infrastructure workloads. Their cloud-based platform accelerates and optimizes open-source database implementations, offering solutions such as a Cassandra I/O accelerator, a distributed and persistent cache, and a storage engine for graph and SQL databases. This technology enables enterprises to achieve higher throughput and lower latency, allowing them to improve critical workloads across public cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments without necessitating changes to existing applications. Reniac's team comprises experienced professionals from notable companies, bringing a wealth of expertise in data, software, and systems.

Zillabyte

Seed Round in 2013
Zillabyte is a data analysis and processing solutions company founded in 2011 and headquartered in the United States. The company specializes in developing a cloud platform that facilitates data analysis through its natural language processing (NLP) tools. Zillabyte aims to provide a turnkey solution that allows businesses to build applications without the need to manage underlying infrastructure. As a competitor in the data processing market, Zillabyte faces challenges from established players like Google and Amazon, which have introduced their own data processing technologies.

ParAccel

Series E in 2011
ParAccel is a data analysis platform that specializes in accelerating analytics for businesses, enabling them to innovate and compete effectively. The ParAccel Analytic Platform integrates an analytic database with advanced extensibility and integration technology, allowing organizations to access and leverage big data analytics in real-time. The company serves Fortune 1000 clients, helping them explore and utilize extensive data analytics capabilities. Founded in 2005 by Barry Zane, a member of the founding team at Netezza, ParAccel is headquartered in Campbell, California, with additional offices in San Diego and London.

Schooner Information Technology

Series B in 2009
Schooner Information Technology develops and markets two software products: SchoonerSQL™, a high-availability high-performance SQL database, 100% compatible with standard MySQL and InnoDB, for demanding mission-critical applications; and Membrain™, a 100% memcached-compatible flash-optimized software cache and NoSQL key-value store. SchoonerSQL and Membrain provide industry-leading 99.999% availability with auto fail-over, guarantee no data loss and no stale data”, deliver industry-leading performance and scalability on commodity servers and storage, radically simplify administration, and minimize your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Schooner, based in Sunnyvale, CA, is funded by CMEA Capital (Jim Watson), Redpoint Ventures (John Walecka), and Menlo Ventures (Mark Siegel). Learn more at www.schoonerinfotech.com.

ParAccel

Series C in 2009
ParAccel is a data analysis platform that specializes in accelerating analytics for businesses, enabling them to innovate and compete effectively. The ParAccel Analytic Platform integrates an analytic database with advanced extensibility and integration technology, allowing organizations to access and leverage big data analytics in real-time. The company serves Fortune 1000 clients, helping them explore and utilize extensive data analytics capabilities. Founded in 2005 by Barry Zane, a member of the founding team at Netezza, ParAccel is headquartered in Campbell, California, with additional offices in San Diego and London.

Asempra Technologies

Series B in 2006
Asempra Technologies specializes in providing comprehensive recovery management solutions for Windows applications and data. The company offers products that ensure data integrity and enable instant data recovery. Their services include disaster recovery, data deduplication, data replication, and data protection. Key offerings include Business Continuity Server, which allows mid-market IT managers to restore Exchange, SQL, and Windows file servers, and Virtual On-Demand Recovery, a virtualized platform for recovery and data protection.
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