Deedy Das

Das grew up between Calcutta and the San Francisco Bay Area and attended La Martiniere for Boys in Calcutta. His personal website uses both Deedy Das and Debarghya Das.⁠[1][2]

He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science at Cornell, with interests in machine learning and information retrieval. He recalled initially considering physics before switching to computing and graduating in late 2014.⁠[1][3]

After graduation, he worked at Facebook and then Google. At Google he contributed to query understanding and sports search, working across New York, Tel Aviv and Bangalore.⁠[3][2]

In 2019, he joined the startup then called Scio, later renamed Glean. He helped build enterprise search, became an engineering manager and subsequently developed Glean Assistant.⁠[3][1]

Das joined Menlo Ventures in 2024, moving from engineering and product work into venture capital. Reflecting on the transition, he said he preferred building from scratch and saw investing as a way to work with early technical founders.⁠[4][3]

Menlo Ventures and Anthropic announced the $100 million Anthology Fund on July 17, 2024. Menlo supplied investment capital and Anthropic contributed technology and ecosystem support. Das helped launch the initiative.⁠[5][6]

On June 25, 2025, Das and Matt MurphyMatt MurphyMatt Murphy is a partner at Menlo Ventures focused on AI infrastructure and enterprise software. He worked at Sun Microsystems and Netboost and spent about fifteen years at Kleiner Perkins before joining Menlo in 2015. His disclosed investments include Anthropic, OpenRouter, Lovable, Harness, Carta and Legora.Open the full entry announced Menlo’s lead role in OpenRouterOpenRouterOpenRouter is an AI model marketplace and gateway launched in 2023. Its API and chat interface connect models and inference providers, with routing, observability, cost management and enterprise controls. Its co-founders include Alex Atallah, Louis Vichy and Chris Clark. Stripe announced an agreement to acquire OpenRouter in August 2026.Open the full entry’s $40 million Series A, following an Anthology Fund seed investment. A later account dated the seed investment to March and the Series A to May 2025, with Murphy joining the board and Das becoming a board observer.⁠[7][4]

Menlo announced his promotion to partner on September 15, 2025, about eighteen months after he joined. The announcement confirmed his GoodfireGoodfireGoodfire is an AI interpretability research company founded in 2024 and based in San Francisco. Organized as a public benefit corporation, it was co-founded by Eric Ho, Tom McGrath and Daniel Balsam. Its research and products, including Ember and Silico, focus on understanding, debugging and monitoring neural networks.Open the full entry board seat and OpenRouter observer role, and reported that Anthology had backed more than forty companies.⁠[6]

After OpenRouter announced an agreement to be acquired by Stripe, Das and Murphy reviewed Menlo’s path from an Anthology investment to leading the Series A and participating in the Series B. The announcement described a signed acquisition agreement.⁠[4]

20VC host Harry Stebbings shared Venky GanesanVenky GanesanVenky Ganesan is a partner at Menlo Ventures investing in AI software, cybersecurity and infrastructure. He co-founded Trigo Technologies, invested at Globespan Capital Partners and joined Menlo in 2013. He appeared on the Forbes Midas List from 2013 through 2015 and formerly chaired the National Venture Capital Association.Open the full entry’s view that seed portfolios provide options to identify outliers, with larger commitments following quantitative evidence. Das responded that investors criticizing this framework were themselves acquiring options unless their entire portfolio contained only one investment.⁠[8][9]

In a follow-up, he argued that a more diversified portfolio leaves less of an investor’s finite time for each company. He also acknowledged that the wording could suggest insufficient commitment. These were his views on venture investing.⁠[10]

His focus spans AI, infrastructure and enterprise software from seed through Series B. His disclosed portfolio also includes Wispr FlowWispr FlowWispr Flow is an AI voice-input product and brand developed by Wispr. It turns natural speech into text within applications and has expanded into meeting notes. Founded in 2021 by Tanay Kothari and Sahaj Garg and based in San Francisco, Wispr initially explored wearable voice interfaces before focusing on Flow software in 2024.Open the full entry, ModalModalModal is a cloud infrastructure company founded by Erik Bernhardsson and Akshat Bubna. Operated by New York-based Modal Labs, Inc., its platform lets developers configure cloud CPUs, GPUs and containers in code for model inference, training, batch processing and isolated execution of AI agent workloads.Open the full entry, PangramPangramPangram, also known as Pangram Labs, is an AI content detection company founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 2023 by Max Spero and Bradley Emi. Its products classify text as human-written, AI-assisted or AI-generated and include image detection, browser extensions and APIs for education, publishing and content platforms.Open the full entry, Inception and Prime Intellect. His website separately lists angel investments including Perplexity, Cartesia and Fulcrum.⁠[2][1]

Das writes about technology, startups, immigration and careers on his website and X, and has released projects such as Deedy Résumé. His Menlo research work includes co-authoring its mid-year 2025 large-language-model market report.⁠[2][6]

Firm profile: https://menlovc.com/team/deedy-das/ (opens in a new window). Personal website: https://debarghyadas.com/ (opens in a new window). X: https://x.com/deedydas (opens in a new window). LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debarghyadas (opens in a new window).⁠[1][2]