Aunkur Arya
Board Partner at Menlo Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Board Partner
2024 - Current
Venture Partner
2022 - 2024
Menlo Ventures provides capital for consumer, enterprise, and life science technologies from seed to growth stages.
Investor and Board Director
2023
Regspot is an AI based marketing compliance platform for financial services companies.
Investor
2023
The Pricing Co-Pilot for Retail Operators.
Investor
2020
Modern Treasury offers a payment operations platform to simplify and modernize business payments.
Raised $183,000,000.00 from NewView Capital, SVB Capital, Artisanal Ventures, Four Cities Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Benchmark, TQ Ventures, Mischief, Altimeter Capital and Quiet Capital.
Investor
2020
Growing small businesses through embedded financial services enabled on the very platforms on which SMBs sell & transact
Raised $462,000,000.00 from Trinity Capital, Jefferies Financial Group, Trinity Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Atalaya Capital and Jefferies Financial Group.
Investor
2019
Middesk is an identity platform that automates business verification and underwrites decisions.
Raised $77,000,000.00 from Gaingels, Accel, Canapi Ventures, Insight Partners and Sequoia Capital.
Senior Advisor
2022 - 2022
TPG is a private investment firm that manages capital across a series of funds.
Raised $535,598,425.00 from Macquarie Group, Ares Management, Nomura Holdings, Pierfront Capital, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Partners Group and Barings.
Advisor
2022 - 2022
Collaborative Fund is an investment fund that provides funding to companies based on creativity and collaborative consumption.
Family (and investing) time
2018 - 2022
Took a break from Operating to spend time with my family and to advise and invest in early-stage Fintech companies. Some of my investments include: Modern Treasury MidDesk Parafin Canopy Servicing Resolve HomeLister ByteDance (secondary) Meemo ($COIN) Postmates ($UBER) URX ($PINS) Accel Scout/LP
SVP/GM Braintree and Venmo BD
2014 - 2018
Education
BA
1994 - 1998