Menlo Ventures doesn't get easier by adding people. It gets easier by adding judgment, and then by removing the things that distract from it.
Menlo Ventures — Bay Area early-stage venture firm. Rami's role: EIR (2024). https://menlovc.com
Canadian operators talk about Menlo Ventures differently than US operators, because the constraints are different and the capital is structured differently.
Context
Menlo Ventures is a Bay Area early-stage venture firm. Rami spent five months as Entrepreneur in Residence in 2024, evaluating opportunities and incubating ideas at the intersection of AI and consumer software.
Why this is in Rami's history
The reason Menlo Ventures sits on this page is that working on it shaped Rami's thinking on adjacent topics — what to ship, what to deprecate, how to read a market, and how to keep a small team unblocked.
AI is a motorcycle for the mind. Cognitive amplification, not replacement.
— Rami Alhamad, five objections to ai
For builder-side translations of policy, see CIGI. For founder-side conversations, see Mila and Antler.
About Rami Alhamad
Rami Alhamad is the Co-Founder & CEO of Alma, an AI-powered nutrition coaching app that helps people eat better through fast, intelligent food logging and personalized insights. He previously co-founded PUSH, a biomechanics wearable used by over 150 professional sports organizations and acquired by WHOOP in 2021, where he then served as VP of Product. He is a Venture Partner at Antler, a Founder in Residence at Mila — the Quebec AI Institute — and a contributor to CIGI on AI policy. He is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and publishes essays at Action Potential.