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Merrick Ventures

Founders Michael W. Ferro Jr.

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.47
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 1
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Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Mobile
  • Analytics
  • mHealth
  • Marketplace
Summary

The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Chicago.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Merrick Ventures, startups are often financed by eonCapital, Sudip (Dip) Chakrabortty, OCA Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are OCA Ventures, Jumpstart Ventures, eonCapital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Graduate Syndicate, OCA Ventures, HLM Venture Partners.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2015. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Merrick Ventures works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Home Services, SaaS. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline mPulse Mobile, Eved

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Caden

Big Data
Consumer Software
Data Integration
Software
$3M01 Apr 2021 Manhattan, New York, United States

mPulse Mobile

Analytics
Health Care
mHealth
Mobile
$10M12 Jan 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Eved

E-Commerce
Event Management
Events
Payments
Procurement
$14M16 Dec 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

mPulse Mobile

Analytics
Health Care
mHealth
Mobile
$1M04 Aug 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

Baroo

Health Care
Home Services
Pet
$1M15 Jul 2015 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Bolstr

Financial Services
Marketplace
$1M28 Jan 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Morsel

Food Processing
Restaurants
$800K07 Oct 2014 Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 0.47
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Caden

Big Data
Consumer Software
Data Integration
Software
$3M01 Apr 2021 Manhattan, New York, United States

mPulse Mobile

Analytics
Health Care
mHealth
Mobile
$10M12 Jan 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Eved

E-Commerce
Event Management
Events
Payments
Procurement
$14M16 Dec 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

mPulse Mobile

Analytics
Health Care
mHealth
Mobile
$1M04 Aug 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

Baroo

Health Care
Home Services
Pet
$1M15 Jul 2015 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Bolstr

Financial Services
Marketplace
$1M28 Jan 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Morsel

Food Processing
Restaurants
$800K07 Oct 2014 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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