Merian Ventures

Total investments

16

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

9

Rounds per year

2.29

Follow on index

0.44

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologySaaSSoftware EngineeringBig DataDeveloper ToolsComputerDatabaseData Visualization

Summary

Merian Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, Real Time. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ImpactVision, Populus, Honeycomb.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Merian Ventures, startups are often financed by Wayra, Storm Ventures, Data Collective DCVC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are e.ventures, Storm Ventures, Plug and Play. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Precursor Ventures, Plug and Play, e.ventures.

The fund was created by Alexsis de Raadt-St. James. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
16
Lead investments
0
Exits
1
Rounds per year
2.29
Follow on index
0.44
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Information Technology (8)
  • Big Data (6)
  • Analytics (6)
  • Developer Tools (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (13)
  • United Kingdom (3)
Peak activity year
2018

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
6

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Graspie, Inc. 01 Jan 2018 Software, B2B, Mobile, Human Resources, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Corporate Training Seed 81K United States, New York, Buffalo
Honeycomb 26 Sep 2019 Software, Analytics, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Big Data, Developer Tools, Computer, Database, Data Visualization Early Stage Venture 11M United States, California, San Francisco
Honeycomb 01 Feb 2018 Software, Analytics, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Big Data, Developer Tools, Computer, Database, Data Visualization Early Stage Venture 11M United States, California, San Francisco

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