Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate hit $9B+ at the end of 2025, up from $4B in July 2025; Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Menlo are set to join its new funding round
Iconiq, Lightspeed and Menlo Ventures are set to join the startup's new funding round at a $350 billion valuation.
Stockholm-based vibe coding startup Lovable raised $330M led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures at a $6.6B valuation, up from $1.8B after raising $200M in July
The Swedish company is now valued at $6.6 billion, more than triple its $1.8 billion valuation set by investors in July.
AI academic research hub alphaXiv, which lets users comment on, annotate, and discuss arXiv papers, raised a $7M seed co-led by Menlo Ventures and Haystack
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
AI music platform Suno raised $250M led by Menlo Ventures at a $2.45B valuation, up from ~$500M in 2024, and says its annual revenue has reached $200M
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal :
Inception, which is building diffusion-based AI models for code and text, raised a $50M seed led by Menlo Ventures and releases a new Mercury coding model
With so much money flooding into AI startups, it's a good time to be an AI researcher with an idea to test out.
A look at Anthropic's success in corporate AI, which makes up ~80% of its revenue; a July report put its enterprise API market share at 32%, above OpenAI's 25%
and it's all thanks to this one problem OpenAI can't solve Maria Garcia / Implicator.ai : Anthropic's finance push lands while revenue closes in on OpenAI Samreen Ahmad / Tech in Asia : Will India's t...
Sources: Menlo Ventures targets ~$1.5B for new funds to invest in AI ventures, including $650M for early-stage startups, and $850M for later-stage companies
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal :
Health care navigation startup Solace, which matches patients with advocates, raised a $60M Series B led by Menlo Ventures, after a $14M Series A in August 2024
Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews :
Crogl, whose AI agent helps cybersecurity researchers analyze daily network alerts to find and fix security incidents, raised a $25M Series A and a $5M seed
I invested in the seed round last year (h/t to Akshay Bhushan at Tola Capital 🙏) because of: … Tim Tully : Excited to announce Menlo Ventures is backing monzy merza, Bradford Lovering, David Dorsey an...
Semgrep, which offers an autonomous code security platform for developers, raised a $100M Series D led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to $204M
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