Brad Menezes

Co-Founder & CEO Superblocks

Last Reviewed: September 29, 2026

Executive Summary

Brad Menezes is co-founder and CEO of Superblocks, which sells a platform for building and governing internal enterprise applications. Its AI agent, Clark, lets IT, data and business teams generate production-grade internal apps from natural language while the company’s controls enforce security and access policies. He founded the company with Ran Ma, a high school friend, and it has raised $60 million from Kleiner Perkins, Spark Capital, Greenoaks and Meritech Capital, with angel backing from Box CEO Aaron Levie and Workday founder Aneel Bhusri. Before Superblocks he led Datadog’s Application Performance Monitoring product. In his own words, it grew from zero to $100 million in annual recurring revenue in four years.

Career Highlights

• Co-founder and CEO of Superblocks, an enterprise platform for AI-generated internal software.
• Announced a $23 million Series A extension in May 2025, bringing Superblocks’ total funding to $60 million, alongside the launch of Clark, its AI agent for building internal apps.
• Led Datadog’s second product, Application Performance Monitoring, which he says reached $100 million in ARR within four years.
• Worked on Yelp’s product team shortly after its IPO, a job he says he got by cold-emailing the company.
• Before Datadog, co-founded an earlier startup with Ran Ma that went through Y Combinator and did not succeed.

Professional Journey

Menezes has described his early career as a series of deliberate bets. He cold-emailed his way into a job on Yelp’s product team just after the company went public. He then left to start a company with Ran Ma, a friend from high school. Y Combinator accepted it, but it ultimately failed, which he puts down to the founders’ lack of industry expertise.

He then joined Datadog and led its second product, Application Performance Monitoring. By his account it grew from nothing to $100 million in annual recurring revenue in four years. The job also gave him the idea for Superblocks. He saw how many Fortune 100 companies used Datadog to monitor internal tools such as onboarding systems, finance dashboards and support operations. Those tools were mission-critical but received little attention and were bottlenecked on engineering time.

He and Ran Ma founded Superblocks to address that. The company began as a platform for developers to build internal software faster, and it has moved toward AI generation with governance. In May 2025 it launched Clark, an AI agent that builds internal enterprise apps. At the same time it announced a $23 million Series A extension, bringing its total raised to $60 million. Menezes’s pitch is that enterprise “vibe coding” needs guardrails that consumer-grade AI app builders lack. Clark generates applications inside a platform where IT sets the security, data-access and compliance rules. In June 2025 his post offering a collection of system prompts from popular AI coding tools went viral, and he told TechCrunch that a system prompt is only about 20 percent of what makes an AI product work. The rest is the infrastructure that enriches the prompt.

Education

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