Mercado Libre Fund

Summary

Mercado Libre Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Buenos Aires. The fund was located in South America if to be more exact in Argentina. Mercado Libre Fund appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Mercado Libre Fund, startups are often financed by Wayra, Start-Up Chile, NXTP Labs. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NXTP Labs, monashees, Wayra. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wayra, Start-Up Chile, Jaguar Ventures.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Argentina. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight TROCAFONE, 123Seguro, Increase. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Information Services.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The real fund results show that this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Mercado Libre Fund works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from Mercado Libre Fund is 1-5 millions dollars.