Merck Capital Ventures
16
12M
10
0.67
1
0.38
5
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Merck Capital Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Woodcliff Lake. The venture was found in North America in United States.
Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The important activity for fund was in 2008. Comparing to the other companies, this Merck Capital Ventures performs on 13 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.
This organization was formed by Per Lofberg.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Merck Capital Ventures, startups are often financed by Solstice Capital, Valley Ventures, Piper Jaffray. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Valley Ventures, Solstice Capital, SR One. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SR One, Valley Ventures, Solstice Capital.
The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Artios Pharma, ImpactRx, VisEn Medical 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 most successful fund investment fields, there are Genetics, Health Care.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 16
- Lead investments
- 1
- Exits
- 5
- Rounds per year
- 0.67
- Follow on index
- 0.38
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (8)
- Medical (6)
- Health Care (5)
- Clinical Trials (5)
- Pharmaceutical (4) Show 14 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (14)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Canada (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2008
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 18
- Group Appearance index
- 0.81
- Avg. company exit year
- 14
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| She's Well | 25 Oct 2019 | Information Technology, Health Care, Personal Finance, Personal Health | Seed | 2M | United States, California, San Francisco |
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