Full-Time
Menlo Ventures
51-200 employees
Venture capital firm for early-stage startups
Compensation Overview
$130k - $180k/yr
Senior
San Francisco, CA, USA
- 5+ years of full-stack development with a strong grasp of product strategy.
- Proven work on LLM projects, ideally including agentic workflows, with ability to discuss specific use cases, architectures and technical challenges.
- Tech Stack: Next.js (TypeScript), Supabase (PostgreSQL), Node.js, Langsmith
- Experience building 0 –> 1 in a startup, earlier stage the better.
- Demonstrated proficiency in writing clean, reliable code with effective testing (unit / integration).
- Ability to walk us through a technical project you have led or significantly contributed to, in detail.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and evolving project requirements, with a track record of iterating quickly.
- Refine the product flow and user interface while developing the frontend.
- Identify key technical requirements to optimize workflows for indirect spend categorization with RAG+LLMs, unique part identification extraction, agentic AI-driven benchmarking strategies, and agentic AI negotiation automation.
- Implement LLM, RAG, and agentic AI pipelines to process and analyze large-scale procurement data, generate actionable insights, and power intelligent spend recommendations.
- Train LLMs and implement agentic AI tailored to procurement, creating intelligent agents that find online benchmarks, clean and triangulate dirty data to find critical part information, find contact information from suppliers online, communicate with suppliers, reduce costs, and drive measurable value for enterprises.
Menlo Ventures invests in early-stage startups across various sectors, including artificial intelligence, healthcare, financial technology, and software as a service (SaaS). The firm collaborates with founders to help them identify product-market fit, create effective go-to-market strategies, and grow their businesses. Menlo Ventures primarily focuses on technology and healthcare markets, seeking out startups with significant growth potential. Their business model involves providing funding and strategic guidance in exchange for equity in these companies. As the startups succeed and either get acquired or go public, Menlo Ventures profits from the increase in value of its equity stakes. The firm has a history of successful investments, contributing to the growth of many public companies and facilitating mergers and acquisitions.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
$24.8B
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California
Founded
1976
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Increased focus on AI-native security solutions is gaining traction in the market.
- The rise of peer-to-peer AI protocols indicates new investment opportunities in open-source AI.
- The healthcare sector is seeing a surge in digital health platforms, offering growth potential.
What critics are saying
- Increased competition in AI-native security solutions could overshadow other investments.
- Emergence of new AI-powered code review platforms may challenge existing investments.
- Rapid growth of AI recruiting startups may lead to inflated market expectations.
What makes Menlo Ventures unique
- Menlo Ventures focuses on early-stage investments in AI, healthcare, fintech, and SaaS.
- The firm partners with founders to develop go-to-market strategies and scale organizations.
- Menlo Ventures has a track record of successful investments and numerous public company exits.
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Company News
Good Job Games secured $23M seed round from Menlo Ventures and Tripledot co-founder Akin Babayigit’s Arcadia to build a legacy entertainment company.
Aurascape has emerged from stealth with $50 million in funding, led by Mayfield Fund and Menlo Ventures, and supported by investors like former CEOs of Palo Alto Networks and Symantec. The company launched its AI Activity Control platform, addressing the need for AI-native security solutions as AI adoption grows. CEO Moinul Khan emphasized the importance of re-imagining security for AI, given traditional offerings' limitations in handling AI applications.
REDWOOD CITY — Solace, a digital health platform that connects patients with expert health advocates, has closed a $60 million Series B funding round.
Graphite, an AI-powered code review platform backed by Anthropic, has raised cash in a new fundraising round.
Healthcare startup Solace is raising a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures, valuing the company at over $300 million. Solace aims to raise around $40 million. The startup, founded in 2022, connects patients with healthcare advocates and has a revenue run rate of $10 million as of early 2025. Prior to this, Solace raised $21 million, including $14 million in Series A funding. The Series B comes amid growing public dissatisfaction with the healthcare system.