Merus Capital portfolio

Merus Capital has 2 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding.

Website: meruscap.com.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 2.

Deals, last 12 months: 0.

Capital in their rounds: $26M.

Latest deal: Amplitude · Jun 8, 2016.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, US, founded in 2008. Its most recent investment on record is Amplitude's $15M Series B+ round in June 2016, alongside Quest Venture Partners, Long Venture Partners, DCVC and 2 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Sales and marketing (1) and Fintech (1). It has co-invested with DCVC, Quest Venture Partners and Benchmark, most often DCVC (3 rounds).

About Merus Capital

Firm type: Venture capital.

Headquarters: Menlo Park, US.

Founded: 2008.

Stages: Seed, Series A.

Sectors: Consumer, Enterprise Software, SaaS.

Check size: $200K to $2.5M.

Leads rounds: Yes.

Portfolio companies: 56.

Exits: 5.

Rounds led: 0.

Funds raised

Fund	Fund #	Size	Announced
MMerus Capital Bay Area	III	$85Mvia Shai Goldman's fund list	Jan 24, 2017
MMerus Capital Bay Area	II	$43M	Apr 2014 blogs.wsj.com
MMerus Capital Bay Area	-	Not shown	May 2012

What Merus Capital invests in

Sales and marketing · 1 · 50%
Fintech · 1 · 50%
Health and bio · 1 · 50%
Insurance · 1 · 50%
HR and recruiting · 1 · 50%
Logistics and mobility · 1 · 50%

Merus Capital recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
AAmplitude	Series B+ · $15M	Jun 8, 2016	Quest Venture Partners, Long Venture Partners, DCVC +2
AAmplitude	Series A · $9M	Aug 1, 2015	Quest Venture Partners, DCVC, David Morin +2
AAmplitude	Seed · $2M	Jul 11, 2014	Todd Corenson, SV Angel, Quest Venture Partners +5

How Merus Capital invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series A	1 33%	$9M
Seed	1 33%	$2M
Series B+	1 33%	$15M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2014	1 33%	$2M
2015	1 33%	$9M
2016	1 33%	$15M

Merus Capital portfolio companies

AAmplitude$15MSeries B+ · Jun 2016
CCensiabacker

Company	Round with Merus Capital	Total raised	Latest raise
AAmplitude Sales and marketing	Jun 8, 2016 Series B+ · $15M	$256M	May 21, 2020 Series B+
CCensia Insurance	backer	undisclosed	—

Most frequent co-investors

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Sales and marketing).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-09, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Venture funds Merus Capital raised, from the list of new VC funds compiled by Shai Goldman (Brex). Each size links to the article that states it, or to that list where no article was found. All new funds: new VC funds.

Share is of the 3 rounds on Recent Funding that name Merus Capital. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Merus Capital, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/merus-capital (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.