Maneesh Arora

Maneesh Arora is the Managing Partner at Arora Ventures in San Francisco, California, where he directs seed and Series A investments in enterprise software and artificial intelligence. Previously, he served as a Partner at Menlo Ventures from 2015 to 2022, following earlier investment roles at Battery Ventures and a technical position as a product manager at Cisco Systems. He currently manages over $150 million in assets across a portfolio of more than twenty companies, achieving three exits to major corporate buyers including Salesforce and Google. In late 2024, he led a $12 million seed round for Vectra AI before joining Scale AI as an advisor in January 2025. Holding an MBA from Stanford GSB, Arora leverages two decades of operational and financial expertise to scale early-stage startups across the cybersecurity, fintech, and machine learning sectors.