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Total investments 97
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$83M
Portfolio companies 90
Rounds per year 0.89
Lead investments 16
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.07
Exits 48
Key employees 12
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • Financial Services
  • Finance
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pharmacierge

Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$3M20 Apr 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Beyond Boundary

Content
Content Creators
Marketing
$652K29 Nov 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Everest Ventures

Banking
Consulting
Finance
Financial Services
Information Technology
$68K06 Nov 2017 Gauteng

StokFella

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$68K09 Jun 2017 Gauteng

iLumintel

3D Technology
Image Recognition
Public Safety
$4M23 Jan 2017 Sichuan

Symphony Communication Services

Information Services
Information Technology
Messaging
Software
Unified Communications
$66M01 Oct 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States

Eddingpharm (Cayman)

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$21M01 Sep 2009 Hong Kong

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$25M01 Nov 2007 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

easy2comply (Dynasec)

Cyber Security
Software
$1M02 Oct 2007 New York, United States

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Total investments 97
Average round size 83M
Rounds per year 0.89
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 16
Follow on index 0.07
Exits 48
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pharmacierge

Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$3M20 Apr 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Beyond Boundary

Content
Content Creators
Marketing
$652K29 Nov 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Everest Ventures

Banking
Consulting
Finance
Financial Services
Information Technology
$68K06 Nov 2017 Gauteng

StokFella

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$68K09 Jun 2017 Gauteng

iLumintel

3D Technology
Image Recognition
Public Safety
$4M23 Jan 2017 Sichuan

Symphony Communication Services

Information Services
Information Technology
Messaging
Software
Unified Communications
$66M01 Oct 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States

Eddingpharm (Cayman)

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$21M01 Sep 2009 Hong Kong

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$25M01 Nov 2007 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

easy2comply (Dynasec)

Cyber Security
Software
$1M02 Oct 2007 New York, United States
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