Merus Capital
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Merus Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded by former M&A leaders at Google and Microsoft. Merus empowers ambitious teams building tomorrow’s industry-defining platforms. The firm partners with founders that possess unique industry and customer insights, an unwavering commitment to product innovation, and a relentless focus onexecution.
- Total investments:
- 96
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
- Fund size:
- $75M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Merus Capital invests in
Stages Merus Capital invests in
Countries Merus Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$5.6M
- Series A
- $1.3M–$21M
- Series B
- $5M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 31 (32%)
- Artificial Intelligence 21 (22%)
- SaaS 14 (15%)
- Machine Learning 13 (14%)
- Analytics 10 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 37 (39%)
- Series A 23 (24%)
- Series B 9 (9%)
- Funding Round 9 (9%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (3%)
Country
- United States 54 (56%)
- United Kingdom 3 (3%)
- Germany 2 (2%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- Belgium 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Brad Stein
Operating Partner and CFO
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Operating Partner and CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Erin Lockhart
Partner, Marketing and Investor Relations
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Partner, Marketing and Investor Relations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Salman Ullah
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Co-Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 21 | Find email | |
Antonio Cordoba
Partner - Langre Tech Growth Fund
|
Partner - Langre Tech Growth Fund | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
David Rangel
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resquared offers a SaaS application for selling to local businesses. | $5M / Seed / Jul 23, 2024 | ||
| Next-Gen API Documentation with AI Brilliance. Generate Stripe-like API docs in just a few seconds | Nov 15, 2023 | ||
| Parabola is the spreadsheet alternative where you combine the data running throughout your company and create automated processes.Pull in data from any source you can imagine—from scattered spreadsheets and tools, to emails and PDFs—and build logic that replicates the manual work you do every day. Use our canvas to combine and transform yourdata, and surface the results to the right people at the right time so you can do more with the data you rely on. In the process, you’ll codify the steps for every workflow you manage so they become repeatable, shareable, and usable for the whole team.Create solutions for the problems you’ve always wanted to solve, and make your work more shareable and impactful along the way.Parabola is proud to serve companies like Flexport, Sonos, Uber Freight, Brooklinen, and Chubbies and is backed by OpenView Partners, Matrix Partners, Thrive Capital and more. | $24M / Series B / Jun 28, 2023 | ||
| Korbit’s mission is to democratize education by providing a high-quality, interactive, and personalized education for students around the world at a low cost.Korbit Technologies is developing a real-time interactive and personalized intelligent tutor for learning data science and AI. The AI tutor adapts itself to the learner's needs andprovides real-time targeted pedagogical support (such as definitions, explanations, examples, illustrations, mind maps), which has been shown to make a big difference in learning outcomes and student motivation, and have been designed to scale to thousands of courses and millions of students. The Korbit team and its award-winning AI tutors have successfully delivered its AI and data science training program to nearly 20,000 learners worldwide. Recent research proved that Korbit’s learners benefited from a notable increase in learning outcomes and skill acquisition and boosted their learning motivation by studying with Korbit’s platform powered by AI. Thanks to the continuing support from Mila and other partners, Korbit has been recognized as one of the world’s top 100 AI startups (CB Insights) and has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, Financial Times, and C2 Montreal. | $11.3M / Series A / May 30, 2023 | ||
| DynamoFL empowers enterprises to deploy Gen AI solutions in a safe, private, and compliant manner. Our tools offer a scalable and efficient solution for defense against adversarial AI threats, ensuring the integrity and security of ML models throughout their lifecycle. Our suite of proactive AI model defense solutions can be deployed to bothidentify and remediate security and robustness risks in Generative AI systems. We enable organizations to deploy state-of-the-art LLMs on substantially cheaper hardware, even including CPU resources. | $4.2M / Seed / Sep 20, 2022 | ||
| At NeuralSpace, we make language AI accessible, secure, and accurate across 100+ languages and dialects.Our enterprise APIs empower businesses with superior speech & text AI capabilities for Arabic and Indic languages, promising unparalleled precision, robust data privacy, and limitless scalability.NeuralSpace's technology has infiniteapplications across diverse sectors. Explore our product portfolio and platform services on our website or connect with our experts for tailored solutions to your business needs.Discover more: www.neuralspace.ai sales@neuralspace.ai | $1.2M / Seed / Sep 20, 2022 | ||
| Charma is a platform that helps improve team communication and accountability. The company's platform is a system for effective work relationships that improves the way managers and employees engage in the modern era. | $6.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 23, 2022 | ||
| Uplinq provides an AI-integrated platform that automates bookkeeping and tax workflows for small businesses. The software connects to financial accounts and common tools to categorize expenses, manage transactions, and generate real‑time financial reports without manual input. It incorporates human oversight for key tasks such as financialstatement reconciliation and tax strategy implementation. The system delivers on‑demand reporting, including profit and loss data, and syncs quickly with tools like QuickBooks. Its approach blends automation with expert review to streamline financial operations and make bookkeeping and tax compliance more manageable for business owners. | $5.6M / Seed / Aug 19, 2022 | ||
| HyperArc is a SaaS company that offers a memory-complete AI + BI platform that enables the discovery of autonomous insights. It is the inventor of Analytical Memories, which powers unparalleled experience in AI-driven BI. It was founded in 2022 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $5M / Seed / Aug 08, 2022 | ||
| Sage Care Ltd. is a domiciliary care provider for the elderly and people with learning difficulties. Sage Care Ltd. offers care for older people, specialist care for adults and children, complex care, reablement, and live-in care services. | $9M / Seed / Jul 29, 2022 | ||
| See all 96 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Merus Capital invest in?
Merus Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 96 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Merus Capital invest in?
Merus Capital typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$5.6M at Seed, $1.3M–$21M at Series A and $5M–$30M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Merus Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Merus Capital took part in.
How do I contact Merus Capital?
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Who are the partners at Merus Capital?
The team at Merus Capital includes Brad Stein (Operating Partner and CFO), Erin Lockhart (Partner, Marketing and Investor Relations) and Salman Ullah (Co-Founder & Managing Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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