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Merus Capital

Founders Peter Hsing Salman Ullah Sean Dempsey

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Total investments 87
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 55
Rounds per year 5.44
Lead investments 17
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 14
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Machine Learning
  • Big Data
  • Analytics
  • SaaS
Summary

Merus Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2008. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Merus Capital, startups are often financed by AngelPad, Y Combinator, TSVC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Data Collective DCVC, AngelPad, Khosla Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by XG Ventures, Khosla Ventures, AngelPad.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Symphony Communication Services Holdings, Womply, Iterable. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund was created by Peter Hsing, Salman Ullah, Sean Dempsey. The overall number of key employees were 4.

The typical startup value when the investment from Merus Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Merus Capital works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Parabola

Big Data
Data Integration
SaaS
Software
$24M28 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Korbit Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Corporate Training
Education
Information Technology
Machine Learning
MOOC
Natural Language Processing
Tutoring
$11M30 May 2023 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

DynamoFL

$4M20 Sep 2022 -

Uplinq

Accounting
Business Intelligence
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$5M15 Aug 2022 Tempe, Arizona, United States

Sage Care Ltd.

Health Care
$9M29 Jul 2022 United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Sage

Apps
Social
Software
$9M28 Jul 2022 New York, New York, United States

Medsien

Health Care
$4M21 Jun 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

ALICE Technologies

Construction
Innovation Management
Machine Learning
Real Estate
Software
$30M13 Jun 2022 California, United States

Viable

Big Data
Information Services
Market Research
Productivity Tools
$5M12 May 2022 Oakland, California, United States
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Goodcall Raises $4M in Seed Funding

– Goodcall is a conversational AI platform for local restaurants, shops, and merchants across the U.S.
– The company raised $4m in seed funding.
– The round was led by strategic investors Neo and Foothill Ventures (early investor in Zoom), Merus Capital, Xoogler Ventures, Verissimo Ventures, VSC Ventures, Harry Hurst, founder/co-CEO of Pipe.com, Spencer Rascoff, co-founder of Zillow and other angels.
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s business reach.

Moesif Raises $12M to Help Product Leaders Build Better API Experiences

– Moesif, which provides product insights into how customers use their APIs and tooling to build better developer experiences, has announced a $12m Series A led by David Sacks and Arra Malekzadeh of Craft Ventures, the latter of whom will join Moesif’s board.
– Previous investor, Merus Capital, also participated in the round, bringing the San Francisco-based startup’s total raise to $15.5m.
– Moesif’s “bottom-up” virality within organizations has led to Moesif’s revenue growing over 20% MoM throughout 2021 as customers rely on Moesif for critical insights into user behavior.
– With the new funding, Moesif plans to hire across engineering, sales, developer relations, and customer success.

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Total investments 87
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 5.44
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 17
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Parabola

Big Data
Data Integration
SaaS
Software
$24M28 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Korbit Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Corporate Training
Education
Information Technology
Machine Learning
MOOC
Natural Language Processing
Tutoring
$11M30 May 2023 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

DynamoFL

$4M20 Sep 2022 -

Uplinq

Accounting
Business Intelligence
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$5M15 Aug 2022 Tempe, Arizona, United States

Sage Care Ltd.

Health Care
$9M29 Jul 2022 United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Sage

Apps
Social
Software
$9M28 Jul 2022 New York, New York, United States

Medsien

Health Care
$4M21 Jun 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

ALICE Technologies

Construction
Innovation Management
Machine Learning
Real Estate
Software
$30M13 Jun 2022 California, United States

Viable

Big Data
Information Services
Market Research
Productivity Tools
$5M12 May 2022 Oakland, California, United States
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