# Merian Ventures

> Merian Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Software and Analytics. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jul 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/merian-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/merianventures
- Website: https://www.merianventures.com

Merian Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Analytics. Merian Ventures supports founding teams developing transformative emerging technologies in STEM-related companies, such as artificial intelligence and digital networks. We have a demonstrated track record helping innovative companies scale their businesses with a unique combination of network access, expertise and strategic capital investments.Merian Ventures has participated in Seed+ to Series B rounds for start-up companies based in the US and UK.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 23% |
| Analytics | 3 | 23% |
| SaaS | 2 | 15% |
| Human Resources | 2 | 15% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 15% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 46% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 15% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 54% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 15% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alexsis de Raadt-St. James | Founder and Managing Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexsis-de-raadt-st-james |
| Liv James | Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liv-james |
| Marta Bulaich | Marketing and PR Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marta-bulaich |
| Priya Guha | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/priya-guha |
| Stacey O'Rourke | Office Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stacey-o-rourke |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aiwyn | Aiwyn provides tools for accounting firms to manage billing processes and cash flow. The company automates accounts receivable tasks, including invoice preparation, collections, and payments. This automation allows partners and knowledge workers to focus on client service. | $14M | Seed | Jul 22, 2021 |  |
| Aiwyn | Aiwyn provides tools for accounting firms to manage billing processes and cash flow. The company automates accounts receivable tasks, including invoice preparation, collections, and payments. This automation allows partners and knowledge workers to focus on client service. | $14M | Seed | Jun 29, 2021 |  |
| Honeycomb | Honeycomb provides full-stack observability for modern engineering teams to understand, debug, and improve production systems. Honeycomb's customers rely on the product for fast incident response, system optimization, and delivering pain-free releases across the software engineering cycle that translates to happy devs and happy customers.Founded on the experience of debugging problems at the scale of millions of apps serving tens of millions of users, it helps every engineer to the instrument and queries the behavior of their system.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $20M | Series B | Feb 02, 2021 |  |
| Honeycomb | Honeycomb provides full-stack observability for modern engineering teams to understand, debug, and improve production systems. Honeycomb's customers rely on the product for fast incident response, system optimization, and delivering pain-free releases across the software engineering cycle that translates to happy devs and happy customers.Founded on the experience of debugging problems at the scale of millions of apps serving tens of millions of users, it helps every engineer to the instrument and queries the behavior of their system.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $11.4M | Series A | Sep 26, 2019 |  |
| Populus | Populus is a platform for cities to manage and price commercial fleets to deliver safer more sustainable streets. Over 100 cities around the world rely on Populus to receive GPS data from commercial vehicles, and are now leveraging their platform to create, manage, and enforce payment for access to curbs to prioritize transitions to lower carbontransportation. | $3.1M | Seed | Mar 11, 2019 |  |
| Provenance | The trusted data layer for agentic commerce. Provenance powers enriched product attributes for 300+ brands and retailers, including L’Oreal, Holland & Barrett, THG, Nestle, Unilever, LVMH, Diageo and Ocado, positioning it as a trusted infrastructure layer for AI discovery and values-driven commerce.With AI-driven commerce projected to reach$3–5 trillion by 2030, brands and retailers face a structural challenge: product claims are largely unstructured, unverifiable and lacking trust signals for AI systems. Provenance converts complex product data - certifications, sustainability, health and efficacy claims - into verified, machine-readable claims that AI systems can reliably interpret and cite, building on over a decade of domain expertise in the integrity, validation and compliance of CPG product claims. |  |  | Jul 18, 2018 |  |
| Populus | Populus is a platform for cities to manage and price commercial fleets to deliver safer more sustainable streets. Over 100 cities around the world rely on Populus to receive GPS data from commercial vehicles, and are now leveraging their platform to create, manage, and enforce payment for access to curbs to prioritize transitions to lower carbontransportation. | $750K | Angel | May 06, 2018 |  |
| Compaas | Compaas helps growing companies make smarter decisions around compensation, communicate better with their employees, and avoid mistakes.It offers a Compensation Intelligence Platform that helps companies manage their operating expense: employee compensation. The platform provides compensation analytics and strategy tools for startups andenterprise companies.In 2017, Lisa Dusseault and Bethanye Blount founded the company in San Francisco, California. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 02, 2018 |  |
| ImpactVision | ImpactVision is an information technology company that specializes in machine learning, food technology, and sensors. It features a software platform that provides insights about the quality foods such as freshness and ripeness of foods. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $1.4M | Seed | Oct 31, 2017 |  |
| Provenance | The trusted data layer for agentic commerce. Provenance powers enriched product attributes for 300+ brands and retailers, including L’Oreal, Holland & Barrett, THG, Nestle, Unilever, LVMH, Diageo and Ocado, positioning it as a trusted infrastructure layer for AI discovery and values-driven commerce.With AI-driven commerce projected to reach$3–5 trillion by 2030, brands and retailers face a structural challenge: product claims are largely unstructured, unverifiable and lacking trust signals for AI systems. Provenance converts complex product data - certifications, sustainability, health and efficacy claims - into verified, machine-readable claims that AI systems can reliably interpret and cite, building on over a decade of domain expertise in the integrity, validation and compliance of CPG product claims. | $800K | Seed | Jul 11, 2017 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Merian Ventures invest in?

Merian Ventures invests primarily in Software, Analytics and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Merian Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Merian Ventures?

The team at Merian Ventures includes Alexsis de Raadt-St. James (Founder and Managing Partner), Liv James (Analyst) and Marta Bulaich (Marketing and PR Director), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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