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Merus Capital co-founded by a former Google head of mergers to raise $100 million
January 26th, 2011 1 comment
Merus Capital is a venture capital firm that invested its initial $40 million fund in start-up companies in Palo Alto, California and it is looking to raise $100 million more at the start of 2011. The motivation is that many start-ups are looking very promising such as Zynga or the new hit, Groupon.
Merus Capital previously invested in early-stage companies, which worked on projects meant to help other huge Internet companies to work better. Sources say that the venture capital firm invested in nearly eight ventures. One of them is Chai Labs which was founded by a former executive of Google and which seems to have won the jackpot as it was acquired by Facebook.
This boost of capital would bring a fresh breeze in the venture capital world as in 2008 and 2009 the total sums of money raised each year were lower and lower. Despite this decrease there were still many US dollars raised, for example the $250 million raised by Kleiner Perkins Caufield& Byers for social Internet companies. The low period was caused by the small amount of return on investment registered by the partners of venture capital firms.
While the Merus Capital partners refuse to comment on the future funds that will be raised the possibility for it to happen is high and that will put some start-up internet companies on their toes just waiting to race for those funds.
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