Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Type

Bank

Status

Active

Location

Charlotte, United States

Total investments

30

Average round size

278M

Portfolio companies

27

Rounds per year

1.00

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.07

Exits

20

Stages of investment
Debt
Areas of investment
LogisticsReal EstateSoftwareRetailInformation TechnologyHealth CareData CenterDigital EntertainmentEnergyRenewable Energy

Summary

Bank of America Merrill Lynch appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1992. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Dublin. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Ireland.

Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Energy, Data Center. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 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 SolarCity, Vivint Solar, SurveyMonkey. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This Bank of America Merrill Lynch works on 42 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 22 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The typical startup value when the investment from Bank of America Merrill Lynch is 100-500 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Bank of America Merrill Lynch, startups are often financed by Madrona Venture Group, Vulcan Capital, Novak Biddle Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Goldman Sachs, Silicon Valley Bank, SunTrust Bank. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tiger Global Management, Social Capital, RBC Capital Markets.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
30
Lead investments
8
Exits
20
Rounds per year
1.00
Follow on index
0.07
Investments by industry
  • Software (4)
  • Energy (3)
  • Information Technology (3)
  • Renewable Energy (2)
  • Real Estate (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (19)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Ireland (1)
  • India (1)
  • Canada (1)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
27
Avg. valuation at time of investment
182M
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
22
Avg. multiplicator
0.12
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Versive 25 Sep 2014 Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cyber Security, Predictive Analytics Early Stage Venture 13M United States, Washington, Seattle
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