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Merian Global Investors

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$113M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 1.75
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 2
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Travel Accommodations
  • Leisure
Summary

In 2018 was created Merian Global Investors, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the London. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Merian Global Investors performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 60 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Merian Global Investors is more than 1 billion dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Merian Global Investors, startups are often financed by Index Ventures, Accomplice, Virgin Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are World Innovation Lab (WiL), Virgin Group, Sofina. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by JP Morgan, Santander Bank, NatWest Bank.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Peer to Peer, Finance. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight The Hut Group, TransferWise, Albert Technologies Ltd. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Starling Bank

Banking
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile
$102M13 Feb 2019 England

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Total investments 7
Average round size 113M
Rounds per year 1.75
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.57

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Starling Bank

Banking
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile
$102M13 Feb 2019 England
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