MergeLane

Total investments

59

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

45

Rounds per year

5.90

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareRetailInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSLifestyleFashionIndustrial

Summary

MergeLane appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Boulder. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the MergeLane, startups are often financed by Grotech Ventures, Upslope Ventures, Techstars Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Service Provider Capital, Grotech Ventures, Drummond Road Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Drummond Road Capital, Service Provider Capital, M25.

The typical startup value when the investment from MergeLane is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this MergeLane performs on 23 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The fund was created by Sue Heilbronner. The overall number of key employees were 2.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Havenly, Mapistry, Hidrate. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Technology, Parenting. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
59
Lead investments
1
Exits
4
Rounds per year
5.90
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • SaaS (13)
  • E-Commerce (10)
  • Mobile (10)
  • Software (8)
  • Information Technology (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (52)
  • Canada (4)
Peak activity year
2016

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
580K
Group Appearance index
0.46
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
0.13

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Intelligems 07 Feb 2023 E-Commerce Seed 4M
LittleLane 17 Jun 2016 E-Commerce, Internet, Communities, Education, Parenting, Subscription Service Seed United States, California, San Rafael

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