Merian Ventures

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.

Stephanie Bates

Venture Partner

Rachel Chalmers

Technical Consultant

Traci Maddock

Director

12 past transactions

Aiwyn

Seed Round in 2021
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.

Honeycomb

Series B in 2021
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.

Honeycomb

Series A in 2019
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.

Populus

Seed Round in 2019
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 carbon transportation.

Provenance

Venture Round in 2018
Provenance is setting a new global standard for consumer sustainability. We are a platform that validates and amplifies sustainability credentials for consumer packaged goods, empowering customers to cut through the greenwash and make sustainable choices with confidence. Our platform enables businesses to be transparent about their impact from discovery to checkout, so that they can realise their sustainability ambitions and future-proof their market share. 200+ leading CPG businesses are using Provenance to communicate their sustainability credentials, including Cult Beauty, The Ordinary, The Nue Co, Shiseido, BELU, Arla and Napolina. Provenance is a mission-driven, independent B Corp; their vision is a world where citizens can make informed buying decisions that positively impact both people and planet.

Populus

Angel Round in 2018
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 carbon transportation.

Pivigo

Venture Round in 2018
Data is and will continue to change our lives. It is generated by us, for us and around us. What will be your role in harnessing it and understanding its value? At Pivigo, we love data, and we are passionate about supporting and connecting people. We support our client organisations with access to the best and brightest freelance data scientists globally, to work on short term projects. We also run Europe's largest data science training programme S2DS - Science to Data Science. Over the past six years, we have completed over 170 projects with clients such as Royal Mail, AstraZeneca, British Gas, Barclays, M&S and PwC.

Compaas

Pre Seed Round in 2018
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 and enterprise companies. In 2017, Lisa Dusseault and Bethanye Blount founded the company in San Francisco, California.

ImpactVision

Seed Round in 2017
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.

Provenance

Seed Round in 2017
Provenance is setting a new global standard for consumer sustainability. We are a platform that validates and amplifies sustainability credentials for consumer packaged goods, empowering customers to cut through the greenwash and make sustainable choices with confidence. Our platform enables businesses to be transparent about their impact from discovery to checkout, so that they can realise their sustainability ambitions and future-proof their market share. 200+ leading CPG businesses are using Provenance to communicate their sustainability credentials, including Cult Beauty, The Ordinary, The Nue Co, Shiseido, BELU, Arla and Napolina. Provenance is a mission-driven, independent B Corp; their vision is a world where citizens can make informed buying decisions that positively impact both people and planet.

Cirrus Identity

Seed Round in 2016
Cirrus Identity is the Swiss army knife of cloud-hosted digital identity management solutions. Our solutions are best in class for integrating social login (Google, Facebook, LinkedIn) with enterprise Web Single Sign-On. This greatly streamlines access for "guest" account holders, such as contractors and volunteers in enterprise. Common higher education users include alumni, parents, and applicants. We have 40 enterprise customers including some of the top universities in the country, including Yale, the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon and Brown University.
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