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Matt Murphy

Partner at Menlo Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Matt Murphy is a Partner at Menlo Ventures in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a notable track record of investing in successful companies such as Cleanlab, Zylo, and Vivun. With an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and experience serving on multiple boards, he specializes in venture capital, start-ups, mergers, and strategic partnerships. Two highlights of Matt's career include his role as a Board Member for companies like Harness and Carta, as well as his investments in companies such as Envoy and Heap, demonstrating his expertise in identifying and supporting high-growth ventures.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2015 - Current

    Investing in the modern AI stack and AI-first applications

Menlo Ventures provides capital for consumer, enterprise, and life science technologies from seed to growth stages.

  • Board Observer

    2023

    Anthropic is a/the leading LLM from the founders of Chat GPT

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that focuses on increasing the safety of large-scale AI systems.

Raised $13,740,377,627.00 from Amazon.

  • Board Member

    2017

    Harness is the industry’s first Software Delivery Platform to use AI to simplify your DevOps processes - CI, CD & GitOps, Feature Flags, Cloud Costs, and more.

Harness is a Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production.

Raised $575,000,000.00 from Hercules Capital and Silicon Valley Bank.

  • Board Member

    2017

    SaaS ownership management applications

Carta is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.

Raised $1,157,600,000.00 from 8090 Partners, Unanimous Capital, Sand Hill Angels, Vetamer, GS Growth, Step Ahead Capital, Massive, Silver Lake, Moonshots Capital and Launchbay Capital.

  • Board Observer

    2019

    Transforming R&D with the industry's most widely adopted Life Sciences R&D Cloud

Benchling is an IT company that provides a cloud-based software platform for biology researchers and research and development organizations.

Raised $411,900,000.00 from Lone Pine Capital, Franklin Templeton and Altimeter Capital.

  • Board Member

    2023

    Data curation for LLM's and the modern AI stack

Cleanlab automates data error detection and correction to help companies improve the quality of their datasets.

Raised $30,000,000.00 from TQ Ventures, Databricks Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures and Menlo Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2011

    Egnyte provides Enterprise File Sharing built from the Cloud down. Access, Share and Control 100% of your data from anywhere using any smartphone, tablet or computer.

Egnyte is a cloud content security and governance platform that is trusted by 16,000+ businesses worldwide.

Raised $137,500,000.00 from GS Growth.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Observable is the fastest way to build custom data visualizations and apps you can embed anywhere on the web.

The end-to-end solution for building and hosting better data apps, dashboards, and reports.

Raised $46,100,000.00 from Menlo Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Acrew Capital.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Leading spend management platform consolidating all non payroll spend in one platform.

Airbase is a software company that offers spend management, bill payments, and invoice processing services.

Raised $251,500,000.00 from Goldman Sachs.

  • Board Member

    2020

    the AI-Powered Platform for PreSales

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