Menlo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1976 and headquartered in Menlo Park and San Francisco, California, that invests in transformative technology companies across the full early lifecycle. Its strategy spans "the Three Stages of Early" — Inception (validating early ideas, including via the Inception Fund and the Anthology Fund AI accelerator built with Anthropic), Venture (Series A/B), and Inflection (early growth). Menlo invests across artificial intelligence, bio and healthcare, consumer, cybersecurity, defense, fintech, infrastructure, robotics and hardware, SaaS, and supply chain and automation, primarily in North America. Over roughly five decades the firm reports backing companies that produced 85+ public companies and 170+ mergers and acquisitions, with a portfolio that includes Anthropic, Uber, Roku, Chime, Carta, Benchling, Pinecone, Netlify, and Warby Parker. In 2026 Menlo announced $3 billion in fresh capital, the largest raise in the firm's history, and reports $7.6B+ in assets under management. Its ethos is "when we invest, we're invested" — active, hands-on support beyond capital.
Every Menlo Ventures company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — and why a fund that backed the author of the agentic protocol has barely shipped it in its own book.
Read the report$750.00 · every API-bearing company in the book, scored on the Kin Score
Portfolio Strengthacross 210 profiled portfolio companies on the network
Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.
Menlo Ventures has 215 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 215 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Anthropic, Benchling, Particle Health, H1, Graphite.
Portfolio on the Network
Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their
API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar2Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
The 210 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by
Menlo Ventures, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from
the catalog — nothing here is written.
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the
“Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own
coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
What this cohort publishes
Artifact
This cohort
Catalog
Difference
MCP server (any)
16%
16%
0
MCP server (first-party)
7%
7%
0
Agent Skills
0%
0%
0
OAuth scopes
8%
9%
-1
Security
93%
88%
+5
Arazzo workflows
1%
2%
-1
Governance rules
17%
13%
+4
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
This roster declares 215 members; 210
resolve to a provider in the catalog and 210 carry a score
(100%). The figures above describe the scored members only.Generated from the catalog build of
25 August 2026, across 26891
providers, using the same computation served by the
APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of
5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
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Menlo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1976 and
headquartered in Menlo Park and San Francisco, California, that invests in
transformative technology companies across the full early lifecycle. Its
strategy spans "the Three Stages of Early" — Inception (validating early ideas,
including via the Inception Fund and the Anthology Fund AI accelerator built
with Anthropic), Venture (Series A/B), and Inflection (early growth). Menlo
invests across artificial intelligence, bio and healthcare, consumer,
cybersecurity, defense, fintech, infrastructure, robotics and hardware, SaaS,
and supply chain and automation, primarily in North America. Over roughly five
decades the firm reports backing companies that produced 85+ public companies
and 170+ mergers and acquisitions, with a portfolio that includes Anthropic,
Uber, Roku, Chime, Carta, Benchling, Pinecone, Netlify, and Warby Parker. In
2026 Menlo announced $3 billion in fresh capital, the largest raise in the
firm's history, and reports $7.6B+ in assets under management. Its ethos is
"when we invest, we're invested" — active, hands-on support beyond capital.
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