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What does Merus Capital invest in?
Merus Capital invests most often at Seed and Series A (65% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as AI & Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML) and Big Data & Analytics.
Merus Capital highlights
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40 rounds on record
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Mostly Seed and Series A: 65% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 6 rounds, median $1.5M
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7 exits from the portfolio
What they do
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Up to $20M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- AI & Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML)Big Data & Analytics
- Based in
- Menlo Park, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first40 appearances
- 2019
2 rounds
- Oct
- Jun
- 2018
3 rounds
- Jun
- May
- Feb
- 2017
1 round
- Jun
- 2016
4 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Nov
- Jul
- 2015
3 rounds
- Oct
- Aug
- Feb
- 2014
9 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Aug
- Jul
- Jul
- May
- Apr
- Jan
- Jan
- 2013
4 rounds
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Mar
- 2012
6 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
- Nov
- Nov
- Jul
- Jan
- 2011
1 round
- Apr
- 2010
2 rounds
- Dec
- Aug
- 2009
2 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- 2008
2 rounds
- Sept
- Apr
- 2007
1 round
- Oct
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration3 named
PYPeter Yi-Zen HsingPromoteriFiling they signed
SUSalman UllahPromoteriFiling they signed
SCSean Christian DempseyPromoteriFiling they signed
We also hold 8 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$277Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Merus Capital Management Company, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 163037
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 2 we have independently watched raise
AgenticFundpanel
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed7 in all
Corona LabsBought by Perk.com$2.3MNov 2015
Corona LabsBought by Fuse Powered Inc.UndisclosedNov 2014
ModeWalkBought by Moda OperandiUndisclosedOct 2014
PerzoBought by SymphonyUndisclosedAug 2014
IO TurbineBought by Fusion-io$95MAug 2011
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.