Mercato Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Salt Lake City, United States

Total investments

49

Average round size

33M

Portfolio companies

38

Rounds per year

2.88

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.22

Exits

14

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareBankingConsumer ElectronicsBlockchain

Summary

Mercato Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2006. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Salt Lake City.

Opposing the other organizations, this Mercato Partners works on 0 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Mercato Partners is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 44 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

This organization was formed by Alan Hall, Greg Warnock. We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Mercato Partners, startups are often financed by vSpring Capital, Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, SV Angel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Rick Alden, Pelion Venture Partners, EPIC Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sherpa Capital, Shasta Ventures, Menlo Ventures.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Fusion-io, Altitude Digital, SteelHouse The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 7 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
United States
Check size
10M — 50M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 400000000
Fund raised date
2023-02-08

Analytics

Total investments
49
Lead investments
11
Exits
14
Rounds per year
2.88
Follow on index
0.22
Investments by industry
  • Software (20)
  • Information Technology (10)
  • Health Care (10)
  • Financial Services (7)
  • SaaS (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (47)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Brazil (1)
Peak activity year
2013
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
190M
Group Appearance index
0.82
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
7.18
Strategy success index
0.90

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