Matt Murphy, who led Anthropic's Series D, now backs AI agent startup FactoryAI
annbordetsky · x · 2026-10-05
FactoryAI welcomes legendary investor Matt Murphy of Menlo Ventures. Founder annbordetsky notes Murphy led Anthropic's Series D in Jan 2024, when Claude 2.1 was still its best model — a bet that aged extremely well — and says the agent space 'is still so early.'
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