About Matt Murphy
Matt Murphy is a partner at Menlo Ventures, which he joined in 2015, and has led its investments in Anthropic and Lovable, among others. Before Menlo, he spent 15 years as a general partner at Kleiner Perkins.
Experience
This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Matt Murphy in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.
MV
Menlo Ventures Current
Partner
2015 – Present
SF
Stanford University Engineering Venture Fund Current
Co-chair
Lovable Labs Inc
Director
2026 · Boston, MA
Lovable sells an AI agent that builds and hosts full-stack apps, websites and internal tools from a chat, for founders and company teams.
OpenRouter, Inc.
Director
2025 – 2026 · New York, NY
OpenRouter sells one API that gives developers and companies access to over 500 AI models, with routing, failover and spending controls built in.
KB
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
General Partner
NE
Netboost
SM
Sun Microsystems
Product line manager
Education
- BS, Electrical engineering, Tufts University
- MBA, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Key Colleagues at Startups
The people Matt Murphy works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.
Lovable Labs Inc · Form D, Aug 17, 2026
FH
Fabian Hedin
Co-founder & CTO, director
BF
Benjamin Fletcher
Director
AO
Anton Osika
Co-founder & CEO, director
AT
Andy Toung
Chief Financial Officer
OpenRouter, Inc. · Form D, Jul 6, 2026
CC
Christopher Clark
Executive officer and director
AA
Alexander Atallah
Co-founder & CEO, director
AM
Anjney Midha
Director
Matt Murphy in the News
- Our data continues to show Anthropic's gaining market share, not losing: Menlo Ventures' Matt Murphy
- Here's the secret to Anthropic success, according to an early investor
- After Factory’s public spat with Khosla, Menlo proudly invests
- ETtech Q&A: From Anthropic to OpenRouter, Menlo Ventures' Matt Murphy and Venky Ganesan on how the firm bets on AI
- ETtech Q&A: From Anthropic to OpenRouter, Menlo Ventures' Matt Murphy and Venky Ganesan on how the firm bets on AI
Sources
- SECLovable Labs Inc Form D, filed Aug 17, 2026
- SECOpenRouter, Inc. Form D, filed Jul 6, 2026
- Officialmenlovc.com, Lovable Series B post
- Officiallovable.dev, Series C post (Matt Murphy, Partner, Menlo Ventures)
- Officialmenlovc.com, Investing in OpenRouter, the One API for All AI (2025-06-25, byline Matt Murphy)
- OfficialOpenRouter press release on GlobeNewswire (2025-06-25): 'Matt Murphy, Partner at Menlo Ventures'