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Meridian Capital

Founders Chuck Wilke

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Total investments 96
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 3.31
Lead investments 27
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.09
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Food and Beverage
  • Information Technology
  • Media and Entertainment
  • Retail
  • E-Commerce
Summary

Meridian Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight 51 Credit Card Manager, Kaishiba, Ent. Evolution.

Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The average startup value when the investment from Meridian Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Meridian Capital, startups are often financed by Ameba Capital, Wedo Capital, We Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Shunwei Capital, DT Capital Partners, Tsing Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by GGV Capital, SIG China (SIG Asia Investments), JD.com.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Yellow Swan Edible Fresh Eggs

Farming
Food and Beverage
Livestock
$92M26 Jan 2022 Chengdu, Sichuan, China

E-Commerce
Retail
$15M16 Oct 2019 China, Beijing

FOF Weekly

Information Services
Information Technology
Media and Entertainment
$4M13 Jun 2019 China, Beijing

Maia Active

Consumer Goods
Fashion
Sports
$6M26 Jul 2018 Xuhui, Shanghai, China

iYunbao

Financial Services
FinTech
$3M09 Jul 2018 Shanghai, China

Digital Entertainment
Media and Entertainment
$57M19 Jun 2018 China, Xinjiang

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Total investments 96
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 3.31
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 27
Follow on index 0.09
Group Appearance index 0.46

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Yellow Swan Edible Fresh Eggs

Farming
Food and Beverage
Livestock
$92M26 Jan 2022 Chengdu, Sichuan, China

E-Commerce
Retail
$15M16 Oct 2019 China, Beijing

FOF Weekly

Information Services
Information Technology
Media and Entertainment
$4M13 Jun 2019 China, Beijing

Maia Active

Consumer Goods
Fashion
Sports
$6M26 Jul 2018 Xuhui, Shanghai, China

iYunbao

Financial Services
FinTech
$3M09 Jul 2018 Shanghai, China

Digital Entertainment
Media and Entertainment
$57M19 Jun 2018 China, Xinjiang
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