Merrill Lynch

Summary

Merrill Lynch appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1914. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the New York.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 partakers. Despite the Merrill Lynch, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Earlybird Venture Capital, Convergence Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Voyager Capital, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse First Boston. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Oak Investment Partners, Voyager Capital.

Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Merrill Lynch works on 20 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Merrill Lynch is 100-500 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013.

We also calculated 12 valuable employees in our database.

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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Semiconductor, Hardware. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Archipelago, Despegar.com, Blackboard For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.