Menlo Ventures

Menlo Ventures provides capital for multi-stage consumer, enterprise, and life sciences technology companies. Since 1976, the firm’s market-driven analysis has led to the identification of opportunities and successful investments in innovative markets. Notable areas of investment include Marketplaces (Uber, Rover.com, Poshmark); Consumer Services (Tumblr, Betterment, Roku, Siri); Dev/Ops (Harness, Edge Delta, Fire hydrant); SaaS (Carta, ScoutRFP, Qualia, Benchling, Everlaw); Fintech (Betterment, Bluevine, Chime); Cybersecurity (Cavium, IronPort, BitSight, Abnormal, StackRox); and Life Sciences Technology (Synthego, Cofactor Genomics, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, 3T Biosciences). Menlo’s portfolio includes more than 70 public companies, and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions, with $5 billion under management. The firm is currently investing in Menlo Ventures XV, a $500 million early-stage fund, as well as its $500 million Inflection Fund, which targets early-growth investments.

Douglas C. Carlisle

Managing Director

Shawn Carolan

Partner

Sunil Chhaya

Principal

Debarghya Das

Principal

Venky Ganesan

Partner and Managing Director

Venkataraman Vishnampet Ganesan

Partner

Kirsten Mello

CFO

Murphy, Matt

Managing Director / Partner

Joff Redfern

Venture Partner

Greg Rudin

Partner and General Manager

JP Sanday

Partner

Jean-Paul (J.P.) Sanday

Partner

Tyler Sosin

Principal

Tim Tully

Partner

Andreas Vandris

Investor

Derek Xiao

Investor

Past deals in Spam Filtering

Abnormal Security

Series C in 2022
Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises from targeted email attacks. The platform takes a data science approach to provide everything needed for comprehensive email protection, detection, and response. Abnormal Behavior Technology models the identity of both employees and external senders, profiles relationships, and analyzes email content to stop attacks that lead to account takeover, financial damage, and organizational mistrust.

Abnormal Security

Series B in 2020
Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises from targeted email attacks. The platform takes a data science approach to provide everything needed for comprehensive email protection, detection, and response. Abnormal Behavior Technology models the identity of both employees and external senders, profiles relationships, and analyzes email content to stop attacks that lead to account takeover, financial damage, and organizational mistrust.

Mr. Number

Series A in 2011
Mr. Number develops apps for smartphones that give consumers more control over who can call them and when. First, Mr. Number aims to bring users more calls and texts from people they like by letting them share availability or status with their friends. Second, the app tells users who is calling when the number is not in their mobile contacts (Caller ID). Finally, Mr. Number block calls and texts from people and companies that users don't want to hear from again. The base application is free and the company charges for Caller ID service and reverse lookup. Customers pay between $1.99 and $9.99 per month depending on the platform and level of service. The data for both Caller ID and automatic blocking of problem callers is crowd-sourced. Users can report telemarketers and the like immediately after a call, and Mr. Number also tracks unusual patterns of calls and texts to users to identify spammers. Some users allow Mr. Number to look up unknown numbers in their mobile contacts on behalf of all other users, in exchange for free Caller ID. The company claims 2 million users across iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry smartphones.

MailFrontier

Series C in 2006
MailFrontier, Inc. provides email and compliance solutions for individuals and organizations to protect email from spam, virus, phishing fraud, and other dangerous and costly email threats. It offers MailFrontier Gateway Server Enterprise Edition, which blocks spam and stops viruses, and separates phishing fraud while keeping organizations ahead of emerging email threats; MailFrontier Gateway Appliance that combines email security with the ease of the appliance—and scales to stay in front of company's needs; MailFrontier Gateway Server Small Business Edition that makes email threats easy for companies to detect; and MailFrontier Desktop 4.0, which is a personal email security that keeps users free of spam and phishing, free of hassle, and free of worry about emerging threats. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. As of February 8, 2006, MailFrontier, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SonicWALL, Inc.

MailFrontier

Series B in 2003
MailFrontier, Inc. provides email and compliance solutions for individuals and organizations to protect email from spam, virus, phishing fraud, and other dangerous and costly email threats. It offers MailFrontier Gateway Server Enterprise Edition, which blocks spam and stops viruses, and separates phishing fraud while keeping organizations ahead of emerging email threats; MailFrontier Gateway Appliance that combines email security with the ease of the appliance—and scales to stay in front of company's needs; MailFrontier Gateway Server Small Business Edition that makes email threats easy for companies to detect; and MailFrontier Desktop 4.0, which is a personal email security that keeps users free of spam and phishing, free of hassle, and free of worry about emerging threats. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. As of February 8, 2006, MailFrontier, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SonicWALL, Inc.

IronPort Systems

Series B in 2002
Cisco acquired IronPort Systems in June, 2007. Now a part of the Cisco product family, IronPort email and web security appliances protect organizations of all sizes against spam, viruses, malware and other Internet threats — combining powerful performance with preventive and reactive security measures that are easy to deploy and manage. These award-winning products and solutions are available from your local account team and through authorized resellers.

Hotmail

Venture Round in 1997
Hotmail is a provider of web-based e-mail services. The company's electronic mail being accessible via the Internet enables Hotmail users to conduct e-mail correspondence from anywhere.
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