Amy Wu

Partner at Menlo Ventures

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 19 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Jun 2025
Venture capitalists are committed to funding America’s most innovative entrepreneurs, working closely with them to transform breakthrough ideas into emerging growth companies that drive U.S. job creation and economic growth. As the voice of the U.S. venture capital community, the National Venture Capital Association empowers its members and the entrepreneurs they fund by advocating for policies that encourage innovation and reward long-term investment. The NVCA also serves as the definitive resource for venture capital data and unites its members through a full range of professional services.
Investor
Nov 2023
Barnyard Games, co-founded by game industry veterans creating and leading renowned franchises like Borderlands and DC Universe Online, are at the forefront of innovation in the rapidly expanding user-generated content (UGC) market within gaming. Leveraging our extensive expertise, our team is dedicated to pioneering innovative gaming experiences on the cutting-edge Unreal Editor in Fortnite (UEFN) platform. This strategic focus positions Barnyard Games as a key player in a market poised to revolutionize the traditional landscape of game development and publishing
early stageComputer Games
Investor
Sep 2021
Alchemy powers the blockchain infrastructure to accelerate the worlds leading financial applications. We provide enterprise-grade infrastructure that enables financial institutions, fintechs, and global enterprises to build and scale onchain applications across 80+ blockchain networks. Our platform delivers 99.99% uptime and sub-50ms response times, processing billions of transactions annually. Leading financial companies including Robinhood, Visa, Stripe, and Circle rely on Alchemy for mission-critical onchain operations. Were trusted by millions of organizations, from the largest enterprises to ambitious startups building the open economy. Headquartered in San Francisco and New York, Alchemy is building the foundational infrastructure for the open economy.
Investor
Jul 2021
Pintu is a mobile first digital asset (blockchain based) platform that offers customers the opportunity to safely buy, sell, manage, and utilize their blockchain based assets. Our name is derived from the Indonesian word for door, just like doors, our app provides the opportunity to access a new open financial system and when closed allows for the safekeeping of assets stored on our platform. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards an open financial system. Invest. Trade. Web3. #AllinOneCryptoApp Pintu terdaftar sebagai anggota bursa crypto CFX dan berlisensi PFAK dari BAPPEBTI.
Investor
May 2021
Parallel finance is a new decentralized lending and staking protocol on Polkadot and Ethereum. We are invested by top-tier investors including Sequoia, Founders Fund, Lightspeed Ventures, Polychain Capital, Coinbase Capital, Pantera Capital, & many more! Parallel is supported by a team of 20 talented developers from Stanford, MIT and big tech companies. Were bringing financial freedom, inclusion, & efficiency to 1 Billion People through web3.  If you are interested in helping build the future of blockchain and finance, please join us to build the vision together.
Investor
Apr 2021
rhino.fi. Your lightning-fast secure bridge for seamless cross-chain transactions . Bridge. Trade. Swap. Invest. Earn. discord.gg/V93Bxn7hAY
Board Observer
Apr 2021
At Webull, we believe that everyone should have an equal opportunity to control their own financial future. In order to make this a reality, we work tirelessly to make sure all the key trading features (a comprehensive news cycle, real-time market data, and analytical tools) are completely free. We pride ourselves on our consistent platform innovation and granular datasets that will drive our customers to make smarter financial decisions. Full Disclosures: http://www.webull.com/disclosures
Investor
Mar 2021
Offchain Labs is a venture-backed, Princeton-founded company that has dedicated over 8 years to blockchain research and development. As the original developers of Arbitrum, Offchain has been instrumental in revolutionizing the industry through this leading network scaling solutions. The team continues to build upon this foundation by innovating and enhancing products such as Arbitrum Orbit, Stylus, and Arbitrum Nitro. In October 2022, Offchain Labs acquired Prysmatic Labs, the leading consensus client for Ethereum, further cementing Offchain Labs alignment with Ethereum.
Board Member
Feb 2021
Our mission is to create core PvP games that focus on power progression and social play
Board Observer
Feb 2021
Recently named "The fastest growing company in Europe" by the Financial Times, Tripledot is one of the largest mobile gaming companies in the world, entertaining over hundreds of millions of people around the world. Forged by seasoned industry veterans from King, Facebook and Product Madness, our goal is to create the highest quality games for everyone to enjoy. With the belief that amazing games are created by amazing teams, Tripledot brings the best-of-the-best together. Currently our team consists of 500 people in offices in London, Warsaw, Barcelona and Jakarta.
Investor
Jun 2020
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.
Board Member
Apr 2020
Yellow.ai powers the future of service with Agentic AI. We help enterprises move beyond traditional chatbots to deploy autonomous AI agents that understand, decide, and act...across voice, chat, and multimodal channels. Trained on 16B+ conversations annually and built on a multi-LLM architecture, our platform enables real-time orchestration of workflows, decisions, and enterprise actions. The result? Faster resolutions, scalable efficiency, and radically improved customer and employee experiences. 1300+ global brands across 85+ countries trust Yellow.ai to transform service at scale. Key logos include Sony, Hyundai, Dominos, ITC Ltd, Ferrellgas, Waste Connections, Lulu Group, and Randstad, Headquartered in San Mateo with offices across 6 countries, Yellow.ai is backed by $102M+ in funding from leading investors.
Investor
Mar 2020
Weee! (www.sayweee.com/en) is the leading Asian e-grocer in the U.S., delivering more than 10,000 locally sourced and hard-to-find goods from around the globe directly to customers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Weee! is on a mission to enable affordable access to groceries for every home in North America while setting a new standard for freshness and value. By leveraging social e-commerce and proprietary forecasting technology, the company continues to redefine online grocery shopping. Since its inception, Weee! has received $835M+ in funding from Arena Holdings, Blackstone, DST Global,Goodwater Capital, Greystone Capital, iFly.vc, Lightspeed Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Tiger Global, VMG, and XVC. Join the fun on our iOS and Android apps! Shipping nationwide 📣
Board Observer
Jan 2020
Aqua Security is the pioneer in securing containerized cloud native applications from development to production. Aquas full lifecycle solution prevents attacks by enforcing pre-deployment hygiene and mitigates attacks in real time in production, reducing mean time to repair and overall business risk. The Aqua Platform, a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), integrates security from Code to Cloud, combining the power of agent and agentless technology into a single solution. With enterprise scale that doesn’t slow development pipelines, Aqua secures your future in the cloud. Founded in 2015, Aqua is headquartered in Boston, MA and Ramat Gan, IL protecting over 500 of the world’s largest enterprises.
Investor
Dec 2019
Laiye is a leading Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) provider with a global presence across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Latin America, and Asia Pacific. Laiye’s integrated suite of AI-powered RPA, intelligent document processing (IDP) platform, and Chatbot solutions help organizations in the insurance, communications, electric power, finance, retail, and healthcare industries operate at new levels of productivity and efficiency to drive new levels of success. Learn more:  www.laiye.com/en
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2025
Board Member
Jun 2025
Venture capitalists are committed to funding America’s most innovative entrepreneurs, working closely with them to transform breakthrough ideas into emerging growth companies that drive U.S. job creation and economic growth. As the voice of the U.S. venture capital community, the National Venture Capital Association empowers its members and the entrepreneurs they fund by advocating for policies that encourage innovation and reward long-term investment. The NVCA also serves as the definitive resource for venture capital data and unites its members through a full range of professional services.
2023
Investor
Nov 2023
Barnyard Games, co-founded by game industry veterans creating and leading renowned franchises like Borderlands and DC Universe Online, are at the forefront of innovation in the rapidly expanding user-generated content (UGC) market within gaming. Leveraging our extensive expertise, our team is dedicated to pioneering innovative gaming experiences on the cutting-edge Unreal Editor in Fortnite (UEFN) platform. This strategic focus positions Barnyard Games as a key player in a market poised to revolutionize the traditional landscape of game development and publishing
early stageComputer Games
Partner
Jun 2023
Menlo Ventures is a venture capital firm that strives to have a positive impact on everything we do. That’s why we support businesses—including Abnormal Security, Benchling, Carta, Chime, Harness, Pinecone, Roku, Rover, Siri, and Uber—that are reimagining life and work for the better. Over 47 years, we’ve grown a portfolio that includes more than 80 public companies, over 165 mergers and acquisitions, and $5.8 billion under management. We invest at every stage and in every sector, with expertise in consumer, enterprise, and healthcare. From developing market strategies to creating communities, we provide real impact where entrepreneurs need it most. When we’re in, we’re ALL IN.
2022
Venture Partner
Jan 2022
Lightspeed is a global, multi-stage, venture capital firm managing over $40B in assets. Since its founding in 2000, Lightspeed has been the first investor and an early backer of some of the most innovative companies in the world including Abridge, Anthropic, Castelion, Glean, Mistral, Navan, Netskope, Rubrik, Snap, Wiz, and more. Learn more at lsvp.com. The content herein does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or investment advisory services. Certain information contained herein is based on information from various sources prepared by third parties. While such sources are believed by Lightspeed to be reliable, neither Lightspeed nor its affiliates assume any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of such information, and such information has not been independently verified by Lightspeed. Unless otherwise indicated, the inclusion of any third-party firm and/or company names, brands and/or logos are for representational purposes and does not imply any affiliation with these firms or companies and also does not imply their endorsement to the views expressed by the authors. For additional disclosures, please see https://lsvp.com/legal/
2021
Investor
Sep 2021
Alchemy powers the blockchain infrastructure to accelerate the worlds leading financial applications. We provide enterprise-grade infrastructure that enables financial institutions, fintechs, and global enterprises to build and scale onchain applications across 80+ blockchain networks. Our platform delivers 99.99% uptime and sub-50ms response times, processing billions of transactions annually. Leading financial companies including Robinhood, Visa, Stripe, and Circle rely on Alchemy for mission-critical onchain operations. Were trusted by millions of organizations, from the largest enterprises to ambitious startups building the open economy. Headquartered in San Francisco and New York, Alchemy is building the foundational infrastructure for the open economy.
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