Merus Capital
Venture Capital
Active
Menlo Park, United States
89
8M
56
5.56
17
0.36
14
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Merus Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2008. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Merus Capital, startups are often financed by AngelPad, Y Combinator, TSVC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Data Collective DCVC, AngelPad, Khosla Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by XG Ventures, Khosla Ventures, AngelPad.
The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Symphony Communication Services Holdings, Womply, Iterable. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.
The fund was created by Peter Hsing, Salman Ullah, Sean Dempsey. The overall number of key employees were 4.
The typical startup value when the investment from Merus Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Merus Capital works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- Check size
- Up to 3M
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- USD 85000000
Analytics
- Total investments
- 89
- Lead investments
- 17
- Exits
- 14
- Rounds per year
- 5.56
- Follow on index
- 0.36
- Investments by industry
- Software (44)
- Machine Learning (20)
- Big Data (17)
- SaaS (15)
- Analytics (14) Show 113 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (78)
- United Kingdom (3)
- Canada (1)
- Argentina (1)
- Germany (1) Show 1 more
- Peak activity year
- 2022
- Number of Unicorns
- 4
- Number of Decacorns
- 4
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 164M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.90
- Avg. company exit year
- 5
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.48
- Strategy success index
- 0.70
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DynamoFL | 20 Sep 2022 | Seed | 4M | ||
| Talage | 08 Mar 2022 | SaaS, Small and Medium Businesses, Insurance, InsurTech | Early Stage Venture | 9M | United States, Nevada, Reno |
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