Finance entity

Menlo Ventures

Company

markets is the sole category represented across all 1 tracked stories. Menlo Ventures is most often covered alongside Andreessen Horowitz, which appears in 1 of these 1 story. We currently track 1 Finance story that mention Menlo Ventures, all published on August 17, 2026.

Last mentioned: 1h ago

Entity pulse

Recent coverage · Menlo Ventures

1 story
8 avg impact
100% positive
0% negative

Coverage balance Positive coverage leads. Positive coverage exceeds negative coverage by 100 percentage points.

  • 100% positive

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What the coverage shows about Menlo Ventures

markets is the sole category represented across all 1 tracked stories. Menlo Ventures is most often covered alongside Andreessen Horowitz, which appears in 1 of these 1 story. We currently track 1 Finance story that mention Menlo Ventures, all published on August 17, 2026. Each carries 2 original sources on average.

Stories tracked
1
Sources per story
2

Computed from the 1 stories linked to this entity, with beat comparisons drawn from all 11 Finance stories published in the same date window. Shares are omitted below five stories and comparisons below a twenty-story baseline.

Coverage cohort

Appears alongside

Other entities that clear the same relevance threshold in stories also covering Menlo Ventures. Shared-story counts are live from our verified record — not editorial picks.

Timeline

  1. Stripe finalizes agreement to acquire OpenRouter

    Stripe Inc. finalizes an agreement to acquire OpenRouter Inc. for more than $7 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

  2. OpenRouter reaches 8M developers

    OpenRouter says it serves 8 million developers who rely on it to access more than 400 different AI models.

  3. OpenRouter raises at $1.3B valuation

    OpenRouter raises funding at a reported $1.3 billion valuation, just months before the reported acquisition.

  4. OpenRouter founded

    OpenRouter Inc. is founded in New York to provide access to multiple AI models.

Stories mentioning Menlo Ventures 1

Markets Bullish

Stripe's $7B+ OpenRouter Deal Shakes Up AI M&A

Stripe's agreement to acquire AI routing startup OpenRouter for more than $7B, months after a reported $1.3B valuation, signals aggressive M&A appetite at the intersection of payments, AI infrastructure, and cost arbitrage. Investors will parse the 5x-plus valuation step-up, the $150M in prior funding, and the strategic logic of a payments giant buying a developer-facing AI middleware layer.

2 sources

Source: List.metadata.agency (in) · Hacker News

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