MergeLane
VC Fund
Boulder, United States
MergeLane is a VC fund in Boulder focused on Software and SaaS. MergeLane invests in high-potential startups and venture capital funds with at least one female leader. Since its 2015 founding, MergeLane has invested in 44 companies and recruited a network of 300 mentors and 600 investors. MergeLane leverages this network, its focus on Conscious Leadership, and the MergeLane Funderator to prove that diverseleadership teams drive superior investor returns. MergeLane is an on-ramp for the extraordinary.
- Total investments:
- 58
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
- Fund size:
- $20M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries MergeLane invests in
Stages MergeLane invests in
Countries MergeLane invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (16%)
- SaaS 8 (14%)
- E-Commerce 8 (14%)
- Mobile 6 (10%)
- Information Technology 6 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 36 (62%)
- Series A 5 (9%)
- Funding Round 3 (5%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (3%)
- Series B 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 39 (67%)
- Canada 4 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Elizabeth Kraus
Chief Investment Officer
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Chief Investment Officer | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Colleen Kazemi
Mentor and Investor
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Mentor and Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Dan DeGolier
Mentor & Angel Investor
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Mentor & Angel Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jack Donenfeld
Mentor
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Mentor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Morris Wheeler
Mentor
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Mentor | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| IntelliGems is Online stores are leaving money on the table by pricing inefficiently. We run A/B tests to find the optimal price to maximize sales and margin. | $4.2M / Seed / Feb 06, 2023 | ||
| Frate pioneers peer-to-peer returns to save retailer profits and our planet. It enables retailers to drop ship returns from customer-to-customer. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Aug 16, 2022 | ||
| Mapistry is a business intelligence platform for driving smarter environmental and safety decisions. The world’s leading industrial companies use our cloud-based software and mobile app to prevent risk by empowering teams to connect, collaborate, and take action around compliance through a single, easy-to-use dashboard. Visitwww.mapistry.com/info to see a demo. | $1M / Seed / Nov 09, 2020 | ||
| Bazooka Tango is a mobile gaming company that creates blockchain multiplayer online tactical card games. Combining deep publishing expertise with the creative muscle behind the mobile esport Vainglory, the company has decades of experience building and scaling hit games across PC, mobile, and console. With multiple titles set for release across keycore gaming genres, its network of games will shape the future of competitive play. | $2.5M / Seed / Mar 16, 2020 | ||
| Originally invented to solve the problems arising from working in increasingly crowded places, our mission is more important than ever. Existing furniture does not provide the flexibility, safety and functionality that offices and home spaces need in a post-Covid world. Covid has accelerated a shifting trend of how and where we work overnight.Companies need flexible furniture that allows companies to scale and provide workspaces as and where needed. Twofold’s solutions are on-demand, mobile and flexible, responding to companies’ and users’ needs. Made in Portland, Oregon. | $995K / Seed / Jul 18, 2019 | ||
| Hostfully helps vacation rentals companies earn more revenue and deliver a 5-star guest experience. The property management software platform distributes listings to Airbnb, HomeAway, Booking.com, and TripAdvisor, and also automates operations including payments (Stripe) and accounting (Quickbooks). Hostfully's market-leading digitalguidebook platform gives travelers local recommendations and essential property information. These help managers of 10,000 properties in 80 countries around the world make vacation rental travel smoother and more delightful. | $3M / Seed / May 09, 2019 | ||
| Pana is a computer software company that specializes in mobile, online travel, and mobile commerce. The company is driven by its mission is to make travel simple, personal, and delightful. From an app, they make booking travel as easy as texting a friend, provide white-glove care for the highs and lows of travel, and offer travel perks, rewards,and experiences.Pana was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado. | $10M / Series A / Apr 29, 2019 | ||
| Paladin creates an easy way for lawyers to find cases they’re passionate about and to capture impact data for the benefit of all. It helps legal teams sign up for pro bono opportunities, enables coordinators to track the lawyers’ work, and which captures some of the stories and impact that the lawyers are making through their efforts.Paladin wasfounded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, USA. | $1.1M / Seed / Jul 06, 2018 | ||
| Mapistry is a business intelligence platform for driving smarter environmental and safety decisions. The world’s leading industrial companies use our cloud-based software and mobile app to prevent risk by empowering teams to connect, collaborate, and take action around compliance through a single, easy-to-use dashboard. Visitwww.mapistry.com/info to see a demo. | $2.5M / Seed / May 13, 2018 | ||
| Locumunity creates a centralized search tool that efficiently matches temporary doctors (aka locums) to physicians, clinics or hospital facilities. They eliminate the need for a recruitment agency. They are unique in that their Locums/employers connect via a two-way search using their matching algorithm, instead of a passive job posting board.Another way to think about us is that they’re the tinder/match.com of medicine versus being craigslist. | $372K / Seed / Apr 01, 2018 | ||
| See all 58 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does MergeLane invest in?
MergeLane invests primarily in Software, SaaS and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 58 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at MergeLane?
The team at MergeLane includes Elizabeth Kraus (Chief Investment Officer), Colleen Kazemi (Mentor and Investor) and Dan DeGolier (Mentor & Angel Investor), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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