Merrill Lynch Ventures
20
39M
14
0.74
2
0.30
10
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Merrill Lynch Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1997. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the New York.
Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Wireless. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Onix Microsystems, OutlookSoft, IP Video Systems.
The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2012. Comparing to the other companies, this Merrill Lynch Ventures performs on 24 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2001. The average startup value when the investment from Merrill Lynch Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 participants. Despite the Merrill Lynch Ventures, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, Frazier Healthcare Partners, Earlybird Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Enterprise Associates, Earlybird Venture Capital, Lovett Miller & Co.. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Frazier Healthcare Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Earlybird Venture Capital.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 20
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 10
- Rounds per year
- 0.74
- Follow on index
- 0.30
- Investments by industry
- Health Care (8)
- Manufacturing (8)
- Electronics (4)
- Developer Platform (4)
- Medical (3) Show 22 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (20)
- Peak activity year
- 2001
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 24
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 34M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.95
- Avg. company exit year
- 10
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.45
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IP Video Systems | 29 Mar 2001 | Software, Hardware, Video Streaming, Data Visualization | Late Stage Venture | 32M | United States, California, Sunnyvale |
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