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MergeLane

Founders Sue Heilbronner

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Total investments 59
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 45
Rounds per year 5.90
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.24
Exits 4
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • SaaS
  • E-Commerce
  • Mobile
  • Software
  • Information Technology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Intelligems

E-Commerce
$4M07 Feb 2023 -

Frate

$1M16 Aug 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mapistry

Industrial
Pollution Control
SaaS
Water
$1M09 Nov 2020 Berkeley, California, United States

Bazooka Tango

Gaming
Online Games
$2M16 Mar 2020 California, United States

Twofold Spaces

Architecture
Commercial Real Estate
Construction
Furniture
Home Decor
$995K18 Jul 2019 Portland, Oregon, United States

Hostfully, Inc.

B2B
Hospitality
SaaS
Tourism
$3M09 May 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Pana

Apps
Mobile
Software
Tourism
Travel
$10M29 Apr 2019 Denver, Colorado, United States

Paladin

Information Technology
Internet
Legal
Professional Services
$1M06 Jul 2018 New York, New York, United States

Mapistry

Industrial
Pollution Control
SaaS
Water
$2M13 May 2018 Berkeley, California, United States

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Total investments 59
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 5.90
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.24
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.46

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Intelligems

E-Commerce
$4M07 Feb 2023 -

Frate

$1M16 Aug 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mapistry

Industrial
Pollution Control
SaaS
Water
$1M09 Nov 2020 Berkeley, California, United States

Bazooka Tango

Gaming
Online Games
$2M16 Mar 2020 California, United States

Twofold Spaces

Architecture
Commercial Real Estate
Construction
Furniture
Home Decor
$995K18 Jul 2019 Portland, Oregon, United States

Hostfully, Inc.

B2B
Hospitality
SaaS
Tourism
$3M09 May 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Pana

Apps
Mobile
Software
Tourism
Travel
$10M29 Apr 2019 Denver, Colorado, United States

Paladin

Information Technology
Internet
Legal
Professional Services
$1M06 Jul 2018 New York, New York, United States

Mapistry

Industrial
Pollution Control
SaaS
Water
$2M13 May 2018 Berkeley, California, United States
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