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Merapar

De Run 8417, Veldhoven, Noord-Brabant, 5504 EP, Netherlands

Overview

Merapar was founded by entrepreneurs and senior executives in the Telecoms, Media and Technology sectors. Our goal is to become a leader and full service innovation partner for the Media, Broadcast and IoT sectors. Our dedicated software development capability and profound experience in scalable cloud solutions inspired a rich portfolio of cloud-based platform components that can be quickly deployed for our customers.

Total investments
2
Lead investments
1
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
3

Sector focus

  • Computer
  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Telecommunications
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Investment portfolio

  • Vamp.io

    Participated · Series A · May 2019

    Vamp.io builds a release-management solution, Vamp Enterprise, that simplifies container-based software delivery and accelerates cloud-native releases. The product adds simplicity, controls and validation for pushing new software into production and integrates with technologies such as service meshes and serverless platforms. Partners include Microsoft, Mesosphere and Docker, and the company says its solution is deployed by globally active enterprises. Founded in 2014 and formerly known as Magnetic.io, Vamp.io is a StartupBootcamp alumnus with its head office in Amsterdam. The company plans to use the new funding to accelerate development of features around Istio service-meshes, serverless, machine-learning/AI, and to improve onboarding and support an international launch. It raised €2.5M in a Series A to fund product development and expansion. Magnetic.io develops VAMP, an open source test and release solution for containers that supports A/B testing, deployment and autoscaling of (micro)service-oriented architectures. VAMP can run standalone or integrate with container systems such as Docker, Mesosphere DC/OS, Azure Container Service, Rancher and Kubernetes. The company is led by CEO and co-founder Olaf Molenveld and is based in Amsterdam. Magnetic.io raised seed funding of €500k to support its growth. The funds are intended to develop enterprise-grade features, grow the open source community and partner network, and expand internationally. Frank Maene of Volta Ventures will join Magnetic.io’s board as part of the financing.

  • SDNsquare

    Led · Equity · Jan 2014

    SDNsquare (previously Candit-Media) is a Ghent, Belgium-based provider of storage and network products for the media industry. Its products optimize the use of network capacity through automated provisioning of end-to-end IP flows without packet loss. Founded in 2010 by CEO Lieven Vermaele, the company focuses on Software Defined Networking solutions. SDNsquare closed a €1.5m funding round led by Merapar. The company intends to use the funds to grow the business internationally and sign strategic partnerships.

Team

  • Erwin van Dommelen

    CEO

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  • Xavier Rouschop

    Founder & CCO

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  • Jaap Haitsma

    Technology Principal and General Manager Americas

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