Meritech Capital Partners

Summary

Meritech Capital Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund was created by Mike Gordon, Paul Madera, Rob Ward. The overall number of key employees were 7.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Meritech Capital Partners, startups are often financed by Mayfield Fund, DFJ, Versant Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Salesforce Ventures, Greylock Partners, Goldman Sachs. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Kleiner Perkins, IVP (Institutional Venture Partners).

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Facebook, Snap, Tableau. 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 fund investment industries, there are Telecommunications, Information Technology.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Meritech Capital Partners works on 13 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 26 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Meritech Capital Partners is more than 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.