Detroit is coming to Silicon Valley.
The last few years have seen an explosion of carmakers, parts suppliers and car startups sinking roots in the fertile soil of California. They’re there because three forces are remaking the auto industry, and mobility more generally: self-driving cars, electrification, and shared transport controlled by your smartphone (think Lyft and Uber).
Silicon Valley thinks it can dominate all three. Detroit is scared they’re right.
As a result, there’s been a flurry of high-profile acquisitions and investments (such as GM’s nearly $1 billion purchase of Cruise Automation and $500 million investment in Lyft), conservative parts suppliers suddenly scrambling to find ways to build self-driving vehicles, and tech companies like Apple negotiating with BMW over its rumored Project Titan car effort.
Quartz asked real-estate services firm CBRE to put together a list of all the tech firms entering the car business and auto players who have set up shop in Silicon Valley. There’s 64 in all, and more arriving. Most are clustered in San Francisco, but San Jose, the heart of Silicon Valley’s hardware cluster, is close behind.
In a way, this is just a return to Silicon Valley’s pioneering days. Hardware was once the great success story, from Fairchild Semiconductor to Intel. By the late 1990s, software was ascendent. Today, building better machines is back in fashion. The car industry is the new frontier. Here’s a list of all the auto industry and tech players located, or setting up outposts, in Silicon Valley.
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Firm | Bay area city | CA driverless car permit |
---|---|---|
Apple | Cupertino | Yes |
Auro Robotics | Santa Clara | |
AutoX | Palo Alto | Yes |
Baudi USA | Sunnyvale | Yes |
BMW Group Technology Office | Mountain View | Yes |
Bosch Research and Technology Center North America | Palo Alto | Yes |
Caruma Technologies | San Francisco | |
Civil Maps | San Francisco | |
Cobalt Robotics Inc. | Palo Alto | |
Comma.ai | San Francisco | |
Continental Tires | San Jose | |
Cruise Automation | San Francisco | |
DeepScale | Mountain View | |
Delphi Labs | Mountain View | Yes |
Drive.ai | Mountain View | Yes |
DriverMiles | San Jose | |
Driving Management Systems | San Francisco | |
Drone Employee | San Francisco | |
Efficient Power Conversion | El Segundo | |
eMotorWerks | San Carlos | |
Ford Silcon Valley Lab | Palo Alto | Yes |
General Motors Advanced Technology | Palo Alto | Yes |
San Francisco | ||
Honda Research Institute | Mountain View | Yes |
Hyundai Ventures | Menlo Park | |
Intel | San Francisco | |
Liquid Robotics | Sunnyvale | |
Lyft | San Francisco | |
Mercedez-Benz R&D | Sunnyvale | Yes |
Microsoft | San Francisco | |
Motionloft | San Francisco | |
Nauto, Inc. | Palo Alto | |
NIO (formerly NextEV USA) | San Jose | Yes |
Nissan Research Center | Sunnyvale | Yes |
Nuro | Mountain View | Yes |
Nvidia | Oakland | Yes |
Otto | San Francisco | |
PlusAI, Inc. | Los Altos | Yes |
Porsche Digital | Santa Clara | |
Quanergy Systems | Sunnyvale | |
Renovo.auto | Campbell | Yes |
RideCell | San Francisco | |
RPM Ventures | Menlo Park | |
Starsky Robotics | San Francisco | |
Step AI | San Francisco | |
Strobe | San Francisco | |
Swift Navigation | San Francisco | |
Telenav | Santa Clara | Yes |
Tesla | San Francisco, Corte Madera, San Leandro | Yes |
Toyota InfoTechnology Center USA | Mountain View | |
Uber | Palo Alto | |
Uber (UATC LLC) | San Francisco, Oakland | Yes |
Udacity Inc. | Mountain View | Yes |
Valeo North America, Inc. | San Bruno | Yes |
Velodyne LiDAR | San Jose | |
Veniam | Mountain View | |
Vivify Truck | San Francisco | |
VoicePark | San Francisco | |
Volkswagen Electronics Research Lab | Belmont | Yes |
Volvo | Mountain View | |
Waymo | Mountain View | Yes |
Wheego | Sonoma | Yes |
Zendrive | San Francisco | |
Zoox | Menlo Park | Yes |
This is a list of current and former companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area, broken down by type of business.
Fortune 500 rankings are indicated in parentheses. As of 2018, 18 Fortune 500 companies had headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1]
San Francisco-based businesses are not listed here; the subset of San Francisco-based businesses by type is at the list of companies based in San Francisco. This list includes extant businesses formerly located in the Bay Area, which have moved, or been bought out by other companies and had their headquarters relocated. With the booming tech industry in San Francisco, businesses face a lot of pressor to keep up with the surge of new companies.
- 1Companies currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Companies currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area[edit]
Aerospace/defense[edit]
- BAE Systems – Arlington, San Jose
- Hexcel Corporation – Dublin
- L3 Technologies – Menlo Park, (Randtron) San Leandro (Applied Technologies), Santa Rosa (Sonoma EO)
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – Livermore
- Lockheed Martin Space Systems – Palo Alto, Sunnyvale
- Made In Space, Inc. – Mountain View
- NASA Ames Research Center – Moffett Field
- Sandia National Laboratories – Livermore
- Space Systems Loral – Palo Alto
Apparel[edit]
- Bebe – Brisbane
- Betabrand - San Francisco
- Dolls Kill – San Francisco
- Everlane – San Francisco
- Gap Inc. – San Francisco
- Gymboree Corporation – San Francisco
- JanSport – Alameda
- Levi Strauss & Co. – San Francisco
- Marmot – Santa Rosa
- ModCloth – San Francisco
- Mountain Hardwear – Richmond
- The North Face – Alameda
- O'Neill – Santa Cruz
- Ross Stores – Dublin
- Stitch Fix – San Francisco
- Zazzle – Redwood City
- Tea Collection - San Francisco
- Welcome Stranger - San Francisco
Automotive[edit]
- Motiv Power Systems[2] – Hayward
- Lucid Motors – Newark, CA
- NIO – San Jose, CA
- Tesla – Palo Alto, Fremont
- Waymo – Mountain View
- Zoox – San Carlos
- Uber – San Francisco
- Lyft – San Francisco
Biotechnology[edit]
- Ancestry – San Francisco
- 23andMe – Mountain View
- Anthera Pharmaceuticals – Hayward
- BioMarin Pharmaceutical – San Rafael
- Bio-Rad Laboratories – Hercules
- Buck Institute for Age Research – Novato
- Calico – South San Francisco
- Chiron – Emeryville
- Genentech (7) – South San Francisco
- Gilead Sciences – Foster City
- Intuitive Surgical – Sunnyvale
- Kosan Biosciences – Hayward
- Nektar Therapeutics – South San Francisco
- Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. – Hayward
- Roche Molecular Systems - Belmont
- Verily Life Sciences – Mountain View
Consumer goods[edit]
- Benefit Cosmetics – San Francisco
- Bianchi USA – Hayward
- Clorox (474) – Oakland
- GoPro – San Mateo
- Kleenspeed Technologies – Mountain View
- Method – San Francisco
- Sephora – San Francisco
- Specialized Bicycle Components – Morgan Hill
Creative/design[edit]
- Ammunition – San Francisco
- Guts & Glory – Oakland
- IDEO – San Francisco
- Landor Associates – San Francisco
- Whipsaw – San Jose
- Traction (agency) - San Francisco
- fuseproject – San Francisco
Education[edit]
- Khan Academy – Mountain View
- Chegg – Santa Clara
- Magoosh – Berkeley
Electronics[edit]
- Adaptec – Milpitas
- Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (406) – Sunnyvale
- Agilent Technologies (443) – Santa Clara
- Altera – San Jose
- AMAX Information Technologies – Fremont
- Antec – Fremont
- Apple Inc. (103) – Cupertino
- Applied Materials (270) – Santa Clara
- Asus – Fremont
- Barracuda Networks – Campbell
- Brocade Communications Systems – Santa Clara
- Cisco Systems (71) – San Jose
- Digidesign – Daly City
- Dust Networks – Hayward
- E-mu Systems – Scotts Valley
- Fairchild Semiconductor – San Jose
- Fitbit – San Francisco
- Fujitsu Computer Products of America – Sunnyvale
- Genesis Microchip – Santa Clara
- Hewlett Packard (14) – Palo Alto
- Hitachi Data Systems – Santa Clara
- Hitachi Global Storage Technologies – San Jose
- Integrated Device Technology – San Jose
- Intel (60) – Santa Clara
- Jawbone – San Francisco
- JDS Uniphase – Milpitas
- Juniper Networks – Sunnyvale
- KLA Tencor – Milpitas
- Lam Research – Fremont
- Logitech – Fremont
- LSI Corporation – Milpitas (acquired by Avago Technologies)
- Marvell – Santa Clara
- Maxtor – Milpitas (acquired by Seagate)
- Monster Cable Products – Brisbane
- National Semiconductor – Santa Clara
- Nest Labs – Palo Alto
- NetApp – Sunnyvale
- Nvidia – Santa Clara
- Philips Lumileds Lighting Company – San Jose
- Rackable Systems – Fremont (name changed to Silicon Graphics)
- Rambus – Los Altos
- SanDisk – Milpitas
- Sanmina-SCI (255) – San Jose
- Seagate Technology – Cupertino
- Silicon Graphics – Fremont (acquired by Rackable Systems)
- Silicon Image – Sunnyvale
- Solectron Corporation – Milpitas
- Sony Optiarc America Inc. – San Jose
- Super Talent – San Jose
- Supermicro – San Jose
- Terayon – Santa Clara
- THX – San Rafael
- Touchstone Semiconductor – Milpitas
- Xilinx – San Jose
Energy[edit]
- Bloom Energy – Sunnyvale
- Calpine Corporation (318) – San Jose, California/Houston, Texas
- Chevron (3) – San Ramon
- Cupertino Electric – San Jose
- Energy Recovery Inc. – San Leandro
- Mosaic Inc. – Oakland (solar power crowdfunding)
- PG&E (183) – San Francisco
- Primus Power – Hayward
- Rosendin Electric – San Jose
- SolarCity – San Mateo
- SunEdison – Belmont
- Sungevity – Oakland
- SunPower – San Jose
- Sunrun – San Francisco
Engineering and Construction[edit]
- URS Corporation - San Francisco
- Swinerton - San Francisco
Entertainment[edit]
- Capcom U.S.A. - San Francisco
- Dolby Laboratories – San Francisco
- Electronic Arts – Redwood City
- Industrial Light & Magic – San Francisco
- Kerner Optical – San Rafael
- Lucasfilm Animation – San Rafael (Lucas Valley)
- Netflix – Los Gatos
- Niantic – San Francisco
- Pandora Radio – Oakland
- Pixar – Emeryville
- Roblox – San Mateo
- Sega of America – San Francisco
- Skywalker Sound – San Rafael (Lucas Valley)
- Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation) – San Mateo
- Zynga – San Francisco
Financial[edit]
- Calypso Technology - San Francisco
- Charles Schwab Corporation – San Francisco
- Coinbase – San Francisco
- FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation) - San Jose and San Rafael
- Fireman's Fund Insurance Company – Novato (now Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty)
- Fisher Investments – Woodside
- Franklin Templeton Investments – San Mateo
- PayPal – San Jose
- Robert Half International – Menlo Park
- Silicon Valley Bank – Santa Clara
- Square, Inc. – San Francisco
- TPG Sixth Street Partners — San Francisco
- Visa, Inc. – Foster City
- Wells Fargo Bank – San Francisco
- Lending Club - San Francisco
Food and drink[edit]
Food and drink establishments with one location are not included in this list. Local and regional establishments with more than one location are included.
- Anchor Brewers & Distillers, LLC – San Francisco
- Annabelle Candy Company – Hayward
- Annie's Homegrown – Berkeley
- Black Angus Steakhouse – Los Altos
- C&H Pure Cane Sugar – Crockett
- Clif Bar – Berkeley
- Columbus Salame – Hayward
- Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream – Oakland
- Ghirardelli Chocolate Company – San Leandro
- Häagen-Dazs – Oakland
- Impossible Foods - Redwood City
- Il Fornaio – Corte Madera
- Jelly Belly – Fairfield
- Mountain Mike's Pizza – Hayward
- Odwalla – Half Moon Bay
- Otis Spunkmeyer – San Leandro
- Peet's Coffee & Tea – Emeryville
- Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company – Point Reyes Station
- PowerBar – Berkeley
- See's Candies – South San Francisco
- Shasta – Hayward
- Takaki Bakery (Andersen Institute of Bread and Life) – Hayward
- Togo's - San Jose
Healthcare[edit]
- Castlight Health – San Francisco
- Eargo – Mountain Valley
- Kaiser Permanente – Oakland
- McKesson – San Francisco
- Palo Alto Medical Foundation – Palo Alto
Internet[edit]
- Airbnb – San Francisco
- Alphabet Inc. – Mountain View
- Ask.com – Oakland
- Box – Redwood City
- Cisco – San Jose
- Craigslist – San Francisco
- Dropbox - San Francisco
- Ebates – San Francisco
- eBay (326) – San Jose
- Evernote - Redwood City
- Facebook – Menlo Park
- Google (150) – Mountain View
- Hearsay Social – San Francisco
- Instacart – San Francisco
- LinkedIn – Sunnyvale
- Lyft – San Francisco
- Pinterest – San Francisco
- Quora – Mountain View
- Salesforce.com – San Francisco
- Slack Technologies – San Francisco
- Poll Everywhere - San Francisco
- SurveyMonkey – San Mateo
- Tripping.com – San Francisco
- Twitter – San Francisco
- Uber – San Francisco
- Wikimedia Foundation – San Francisco
- Workday – Pleasanton
- Yahoo! (353) – Sunnyvale
- Yelp – San Francisco
- Yummly – Redwood City
- YouTube – San Bruno
- Zendesk - San Francisco
- Zoosk – San Francisco
Media[edit]
- Communication Arts – Menlo Park
- Daily Review – Hayward
- Dwell – San Francisco
- Future US – South San Francisco
- POPSUGAR Inc. – San Francisco
- San Francisco Chronicle – San Francisco
- San Jose Mercury News – San Jose
- University of California Press – Berkeley
- Complex (magazine) – San Francisco
Mobile media[edit]
- Bleacher Report – San Francisco
- MobiTV – Emeryville
- TubeMogul – Emeryville
Musical instruments and accessories[edit]
- Dunlop Manufacturing – Benicia
- E-mu Systems – Scotts Valley
- Saga Musical Instruments – South San Francisco
- Santa Cruz Guitar Company – Santa Cruz
Networking[edit]
- A10 Networks – San Jose
- Arista Networks – Santa Clara
- Aryaka Networks – Milpitas
- Barefoot Networks – Palo Alto
- Big Switch Networks – Santa Clara
- Brocade Communications – San Jose
- Cisco – San Jose
- Ericsson – Santa Clara
- F5 Networks – San Jose
- Fortinet – Sunnyvale
- Juniper Networks – Sunnyvale
- Minerva Networks – San Jose
- NETGEAR – San Jose
- Palo Alto Networks – Santa Clara
Real estate[edit]
- Digital Realty – San Francisco
- Jay Paul Company – San Francisco
- LiquidSpace – San Francisco
- Prologis – San Francisco
- Redfin – San Francisco
- Trulia – San Francisco
Retail[edit]
- Cost Plus Inc. – Alameda
- Cycle Gear – Benicia
- Gap.com – San Francisco
- Gymboree – San Francisco
- Levi's – San Francisco
- Macys.com – San Francisco
- Minted – San Francisco
- Orchard Supply Hardware – San Jose
- Pottery Barn – San Francisco
- Restoration Hardware – Corte Madera
- Ross Stores (412) – Pleasanton
- Safeway (55) – Pleasanton
- Shutterfly – Redwood City
- Walmart.com – San Bruno
- Williams-Sonoma – San Francisco
- Zazzle – Redwood City
Software[edit]
- Adobe Inc. – San Jose
- AppDynamics – San Francisco
- Autodesk – San Rafael
- Business Objects – San Jose
- Box - Redwood City
- DocuSign - San Francisco
- Dropbox - San Francisco
- Genesys – Daly City
- GitHub - San Francisco
- Intuit – Mountain View
- McAfee – Santa Clara
- Medallia – Palo Alto
- Mozilla – Mountain View
- NetSuite – San Mateo
- New Relic – San Francisco
- Nutanix – San Jose
- Objectivity, Inc. – San Jose
- Oracle (137) – Redwood City
- Palantir Technologies – Palo Alto
- People Power Company – Palo Alto
- Piggybackr – San Francisco
- Pivotal Software – San Francisco
- Pyze – Redwood City
- Sage Intacct – San Jose
- SAP – Palo Alto
- SuccessFactors – South San Francisco
- Sybase – Dublin
- Symantec (461) – Mountain View
- TeleNav – Santa Clara
- TIBCO Software – Palo Alto
- Qualys Inc. - Foster City
- VMware – Palo Alto
Sports[edit]
- 24 Hour Fitness – San Ramon
- All Pro Wrestling – Hayward
- Fox Racing Shox – Scotts Valley
- Giro – Santa Cruz
- Golden State Warriors – San Francisco
- GoPro – San Mateo
- JumpSport – San Jose
- Kestrel USA – Santa Cruz
- Lowepro – Sebastopol
- Oakland A's – Oakland
- Oakland Raiders – Oakland
- Pac-12 Conference – Walnut Creek
- San Francisco 49ers – San Francisco
- San Francisco Giants – San Francisco
- San Jose Earthquakes - San Jose
- San Jose Sharks – San Jose
- San Jose Barracuda – San Jose
- Santa Cruz Bicycles – Santa Cruz
- Santa Cruz Skateboards – Santa Cruz
- Santa Cruz Warriors – Santa Cruz
- Specialized Bicycle Components – Morgan Hill
- TRX System – San Francisco
Telecommunications[edit]
- Avaya – Santa Clara
- Pacific Telemanagement Services – San Leandro
Transportation and logistics[edit]
- Gillig Corporation – Livermore
Companies formerly based in the San Francisco Bay Area[edit]
This list contains both extant companies which have moved their headquarters out of the Bay Area (often during a corporate buyout), and defunct companies.
- Bare Escentuals – purchased by Shiseido, now headquarters in Rutherford, New Jersey
- Bank of America (9) – relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina
- Bechtel- relocated to Reston, Virginia
- Best Manufacturing Company – San Leandro (defunct)
- Caterpillar Inc. (50) – relocated to Peoria, Illinois
- Chaosium – formerly based in Oakland, then Hayward, now based in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- ComputerLand – Hayward (defunct)
- Esprit – relocated to Ratingen, Germany and Hong Kong, China
- Etec Systems, Inc. – Hayward (defunct)
- Excite@Home – purchased by Ask.com
- Flickr – acquired by Yahoo!
- FMC Corporation (Farm Machinery Corp, Farm Machinery and Chemical Corp) – moved headquarters from San Jose to Chicago; subsequently moved to Philadelphia
- Folgers Coffee – acquired by The J.M. Smucker Co.
- Friden, Inc. – San Leandro (defunct)
- Hambrecht & Quist, LLC – purchased by Chase Manhattan Bank, later folded into JP Morgan Securities following Chase's purchase of JPM
- Hearst Corporation – relocated to New York City
- Hills Brothers Coffee – purchased by Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA
- Hunt Brothers Cannery – moved from Hayward
- Jamba Juice - moved from Emeryville to Frisco, Texas
- Knight-Ridder – purchased by The McClatchy Company
- Leslie Salt – purchased by Cargill in 1978
- Mervyn's – Hayward (defunct)
- Montgomery Securities – purchased by NationsBank Corporation on June 30, 1997
- NUMMI – automobile manufacturer (defunct)
- Pacific Telesis – acquired by SBC Communications, which became AT&T when it purchased AT&T Corporation
- Pegasus Aviation Finance Company – acquired by AWAS
- Peterbilt Motors – relocated to Denton, Texas
- Qume – Hayward (defunct)
- Robertson Stephens – closed by its parent company FleetBoston in July 2002
- Rolling Stone – relocated to New York City, New York
- Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker – acquired by The Hershey Company
- Six Apart – moved to Tokyo
- Southern Pacific – acquired by Union Pacific Railroad
- Swensen's Ice Cream – acquired by International Franchise Corp (IFC) of Markham, Ontario, Canada
- Transamerica – purchased by Aegon
- United Commercial Bank – acquired by East West Bank
- Victoria's Secret - started in Palo Alto, now headquartered in Reynoldsburg, Ohio
- Virgin America – Burlingame - acquired by Alaska Airlines
See also[edit]
- List of companies based in Berkeley, California (subset, mostly included in this list)
- List of companies based in Hayward, California (subset, mostly included in this list)
- List of companies based in Oakland, California (subset, mostly included in this list)
References[edit]
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Menlo Ventures launched a new $500 million fund on Wednesday called The Inflection Fund, an investment vehicle intended to write checks of $20 million to $40 million into high-growth startups that are still too small or too risky for the massive checks du jour. Led by a distinct group within Menlo’s partnership, The Inflection Fund counters a trend by some firms to raise ever-larger vehicles that can run into the billions of dollars – but is also indicative of the creative marketing that VC firms will engage in presently to stand out in a market crowded with cash.
According to Menlo partner Matt Murphy, who joins Mark Siegel, Shawn Carolan, Tyler Sosin, Venky Ganesan and new partner Steve Sloane in the Inflection fund, a concentration of capital at the later-stage end of the market – due to a combination of larger fund sizes and companies staying private longer – has created a gap for startups looking to raise tens of millions of dollars, not $100 million or more.
“The peer group who used to own this category have moved up market,” Murphy says. Firms structured to benefit from successful $100 million-plus investments lack much incentive to prioritize smaller deals with their time, Murphy argues, as those deals will have a lower probability to return the fund in a later cash windfall. “We think there’s a little bit of an air pocket,” he says. “It’s not wide open, but we think it’s the category that is least competitive now.”
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For Menlo's track record at the “inflection stage,” the firm points to a range of current and former investments. More recent additions include equity manager Carta and dog-walking service Rover, both of which went on to raise larger funding rounds in recent months. And the firm's past and present unicorn investments once made at such a stage include Betterment, Pillpack, Poshmark, Uber and Roku.
Not all pan out, such as Munchery, the food delivery startup that shut down in January while reportedly leaving vendors unpaid. Menlo, one of its early investors, has said its representative had previously resigned from the startup's board in October.
In a startup investment cycle dominated at the later stages by SoftBank's Vision Fund and firms able to pony up checks of hundreds of millions – if not billions – of dollars, one Silicon Valley venture firm thinks it can stand out by backing companies just before they're big enough for the giants to notice.
Menlo Ventures launched a new $500 million fund on Wednesday called The Inflection Fund, an investment vehicle intended to write checks of $20 million to $40 million into high-growth startups that are still too small or too risky for the massive checks du jour. Led by a distinct group within Menlo’s partnership, The Inflection Fund counters a trend by some firms to raise ever-larger vehicles that can run into the billions of dollars – but is also indicative of the creative marketing that VC firms will engage in presently to stand out in a market crowded with cash.
Ron larson bruce h edwards calculo novena edicion pdf solucionario. According to Menlo partner Matt Murphy, who joins Mark Siegel, Shawn Carolan, Tyler Sosin, Venky Ganesan and new partner Steve Sloane in the Inflection fund, a concentration of capital at the later-stage end of the market – due to a combination of larger fund sizes and companies staying private longer – has created a gap for startups looking to raise tens of millions of dollars, not $100 million or more.
“The peer group who used to own this category have moved up market,” Murphy says. Firms structured to benefit from successful $100 million-plus investments lack much incentive to prioritize smaller deals with their time, Murphy argues, as those deals will have a lower probability to return the fund in a later cash windfall. “We think there’s a little bit of an air pocket,” he says. “It’s not wide open, but we think it’s the category that is least competitive now.”
For the rise of large-check sizes, the past few days' funding news alone provides examples. SoftBank recently invested $940 million into a driverless delivery service, Nuro. Self-driving startup Aurora, meanwhile, raised $530 million from a group including Sequoia Capital and Amazon.
For Menlo's track record at the “inflection stage,” the firm points to a range of current and former investments. More recent additions include equity manager Carta and dog-walking service Rover, both of which went on to raise larger funding rounds in recent months. And the firm's past and present unicorn investments once made at such a stage include Betterment, Pillpack, Poshmark, Uber and Roku.
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Not all pan out, such as Munchery, the food delivery startup that shut down in January while reportedly leaving vendors unpaid. Menlo, one of its early investors, has said its representative had previously resigned from the startup's board in October.
Menlo Ventures believes its investment timing in Carta and Rover gives it a model for future deals.
Menlo VenturesThe Inflection Fund isn’t Menlo’s first foray into marketing a fund as differentiated in its target investment size. In 2016, the firm announced an “Opportunity Fund” that similarly targeted an “inflection point” before companies would raise larger growth-stage checks. That fund was an experiment, says Murphy, that is now almost fully invested and to be replaced by the Inflection fund. Menlo's partners argue the Inflection fund isn’t simply a cleverly branded Opportunity, part two. Unlike Opportunity, the new fund has its own group of partners – some, but not all, are partners in the firm’s more traditional early-stage venture fund – and it’s expected to invest more in companies not previously backed by Menlo, whereas its predecessor was focused on supporting perceived winners within the portfolio.
And while Menlo’s venture fund added its only current female investment partner a year ago, the firm's overall lack of gender diversity is on display with the Inflection fund, which will function for now with an all-male partnership within the firm. Murphy says Menlo Ventures “would like to continue diversifying” and has made sourcing strong female candidates for its next hires, likely in mid-level roles at the new fund, “a very active part of the search.”
Whether the Inflection Fund will deliver on its promises will ultimately depend on who, if anyone, can find the next big exit from Menlo’s rebranded mid-stage perch. Returns ultimately drive the success of a firm, and if Inflection fails to give Menlo a competitive advantage, it could end up the next experiment tossed aside.
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“Calling it the inflection fund is a cute marketing way of capturing what we do, but the reality is, there is a gap in the market,” says Ganesan. “Getting there has been very good for Menlo.”