Merieux Developpement

Summary

Merieux Developpement is the famous VC, which was founded in 2009. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Lyon. The company was established in Europe in France.

The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Merieux Developpement works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Merieux Developpement, startups are often financed by Paladin Capital Group, Foresite Capital, NanoDimension. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NanoDimension, Shire, Paladin Capital Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Shire, Venrock, Paladin Capital Group.

The current fund was established by Francois Valencony. The overall number of key employees were 9.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Origene Technologies, Amphivena Therapeutics, Inscripta, Inc.