About Brainheart
Brainheart is a venture capital firm founded in 1999. It is primarily based out of Beijing, China. As of Jun 2005, Brainheart has invested in 6 companies. It primarily invests in Series A round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Telecom and Enterprise Infrastructure. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series C round of Meru Networks Overall, Brainheart portfolio has seen 3 acquisitions, namely Spring mobil and Wireless Maingate. A lot of funds co-invest with Brainheart, with names like Evercore sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.Key Metrics
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Portfolio Acquisitions
Brainheart's List of Top Investments
Brainheart has a portfolio of 6 companies. Their most notable investmentis in Meru NetworksTheir portfolio spans across Sweden and United States. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Telecom, Enterprise Infrastructure and 3 other sectors, across stages such as Series B stage. Here is the list of top investments by Brainheart:Meru Networks develops and markets wireless infrastructure solutions that enable the enterprises with Wireless needs. Its clients include Fortune 500 companies. Meru’s Air Traffic Control provides LAN environment delivered through cloud, and its WLAN System provides predictable bandwidth and over-the-air quality of service to deliver converged voice and data services over a single WLAN infrastructure.
Key facts about Meru Networks
- Founded Year: 2002
- Location: Sunnyvale (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $50M - $100M as on Dec 31, 2014
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acqui-Hired
- Total Funding till date: $235M
- Employee Count: 286 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Western Technology Investment, Tenaya Capital and 14 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series E, Jun 2009, $*****
2. Spring mobil
Spring Mobil provides telephone voice and data communications services mainly to corporates in Sweden. Services include mobile telephony, broadband, IP services, mobile extension, switching solutions etc. Tele 2 bought 49% stake in the company October 23, 2006, and the rest in May 2010.
Key facts about Spring mobil
- Founded Year: 2002
- Location: Stockholm (Sweden)
- Stage: Acquired
- Investors: Brainheart
- Highlight: Acquired
Maingate provides solutions for M2M connectivity and messaging.Maingate provides solutions with SIM cards that have remote provisioning to remotely manage the customer's machine infrastructure for IoT applications. Maingate offers a mechanism that allows "over the air" provisioning of an initial carrier operator subscription, and the subsequent change of subscription from one carrier operator to another. Maingate messaging provides bulk messaging service for wholesale and enterprise customers.
Key facts about Wireless Maingate
- Founded Year: 1998
- Location: Karlskrona (Sweden)
- Stage: Acquired
- Investors: Verdane and Brainheart
- Highlight: Acquired
4. Mobeon
Key facts about Mobeon
- Founded Year: 2011
- Location: Santa Monica (United States)
- Stage: Funding Raised
- Employee Count: 9 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Brainheart
Key facts about Gripsholmsskolan
- Founded Year: 2007
- Location: Mariefred (Sweden)
- Stage: Funding Raised
- Employee Count: 37 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Brainheart
Brainheart's Investments by Stage
Brainheart has made 1 investment in Series B stage with an average round size of $17M.Brainheart's Investments by Sector
Brainheart has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications and Enterprise Infrastructure. Notably, it has invested in 3 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 2 Software companies and 2 Tech companies.Brainheart's Investments by Geography
Brainheart has made most investments in United States (1).Brainheart's recent investments
Brainheart has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Brainheart:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Jun 14, 2005 | United States | Series C | 2301 | [+5] | |
Apr 22, 2004 | United States | Series B | 9739 | [+6] | |
- | United States | Series A | 9559 | [+4] |
Acquired companies in Brainheart's Portfolio
3 companies from Brainheart's portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Meru Networks in May 2015 by Fortinet for $*****.Here are Brainheart's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
May 26, 2015 | Apr 22, 2004 | Series B | 6704 | |
Dec 22, 2014 | - | - | 3879 | |
May 28, 2010 | - | - | 5994 |
Co-investors of Brainheart
Over the past 22 years, 11 investors have co-invested in Brainheart's portfolio companies. This includes only funds.
- Top Co-investors of Brainheart: 7 investors entered a company along with Brainheart. These include investors like Evercore (1 company).
- Invested after Brainheart: A total of 4 investors have invested in Brainheart's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include The D. E. Shaw Group (1 company), Tenaya Capital (1 company) and Vision Capital (1 company).
Recent News related to Brainheart
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Meru Networks snags $12M third round | FierceWirelessfiercewireless.com•Jun 15, 2005•Meru Networks, BlueStream Ventures, Dot Edu Ventures, Brainheart and 3 others
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