Aunkur Arya
Board Partner at Menlo Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2020 - Current
Modern Treasury offers a payment operations platform to simplify and modernize business payments.
Raised $183,000,000.00 from NewView Capital, SVB Capital, Artisanal Ventures, Four Cities Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Benchmark, TQ Ventures, Mischief, Altimeter Capital and Quiet Capital.
Investor
2020
Growing small businesses through embedded financial services enabled on the very platforms on which SMBs sell & transact
Raised $462,000,000.00 from Trinity Capital, Jefferies Financial Group, Trinity Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Atalaya Capital and Jefferies Financial Group.
Investor
2019
Middesk is an identity platform that automates business verification and underwrites decisions.
Raised $77,000,000.00 from Gaingels, Accel, Canapi Ventures, Insight Partners and Sequoia Capital.
Board Partner
2024 - 2025
Venture Partner
2022 - 2024
Menlo Ventures provides capital for consumer, enterprise, and life science technologies from seed to growth stages.
Senior Advisor
2022 - 2022
TPG is a private investment firm that manages capital across a series of funds.
Raised $535,598,425.00 from Macquarie Group, Ares Management, Nomura Holdings, Pierfront Capital, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Partners Group and Barings.
Advisor
2022 - 2022
Collaborative Fund is an investment fund that provides funding to companies based on creativity and collaborative consumption.
Family (and investing) time
2018 - 2022
Took a break from Operating to spend time with my family and to advise and invest in early-stage Fintech companies. Some of my investments include: Modern Treasury MidDesk Parafin Canopy Servicing Resolve HomeLister ByteDance (secondary) Meemo ($COIN) Postmates ($UBER) URX ($PINS) Accel Scout/LP
SVP/GM Braintree and Venmo BD
2014 - 2018
Sr. Vice President/GM (Mobile, BD, Venmo)
2012 - 2018
Early executive at Accel-backed Braintree. Led Mobile business unit, Global Business Development for Braintree and Venmo, and opened San Francisco HQ. Post acquisition (2014 - 2018), I led partnerships and go-to-market for PayPal’s large, strategic deals including Apple, Google, Facebook, Pinterest, Snapchat, Paypal One Touch, and Pay-with-Venmo.
Braintree's payment platform provides all the tools online and mobile businesses need to accept payments.
Raised $69,000,000.00 from Accel, Greycroft, New Enterprise Associates and RRE Ventures.
Head of VAS Partnerships - Google Wallet
2011 - 2012
Part of the early team at Google Wallet.
Business Development, AdMob
2010 - 2011
Helped integrate AdMob publisher business post acquisition.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Education
BA
1994 - 1998