Mercury Fund is a venture capital firm in Texas that focuses on entrepreneurs and technology innovation. Founded 2005 in Houston, Texas, United States by Blair Garrou and Dan Watkins, it invests in early stage ventures, debt financing, seed, series A, and series B rounds. Its portfolio companies include Olea Edge Analytics, Ambyint, TeleVet, Ripple Science, Cloudsnap, Benson Hill Biosystems, Spruce, BlackThorn Therapeutics, Sight Machine and Datical. As of April 2020, Mercury Fund has made 142 investments. Their most recent investment was on February 25, 2020, when Olea Edge Analytics raised $9M. Mercury Fund has had 16 exits, the most notable of which include TrendKite, Infochimps, and Retention. the company has raised four funds, their latest being Mercury Fund Ventures IV. This fund was announced on June 19, 2019 and raised a total of $82.3M.
Timeline
Funded Companies
Glycos Biotechnologies, founded in 2007, now known as GlycosBio, is a biotechnology company based in Houston, Texas . GlycosBio Asia is a subsidiary based in Malaysia .
A biopharmaceutical company developing neurobehavioural therapeutic treatments using artificial intelligence and clinical neuroscience.
Apto is a company that offers cloud-based CRM and deal management software to help commercial real estate brokers manage their contacts, properties, listings, and deals. Apto is headquartered in Denver, CO.
ShareThis is a Palo Alto, California-based social media company.
Vistar Media is a company founded by Michael Provenzano, Jeremy Ozen and Mark Chadwick.
An agricultural biotechnology company developing crop design platform to increase intrinsic crop yield
Illumitex is an Austin, Texas-based company founded by Dung Tien Duong.
A medical device company that develops treatments for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
Koupon Media is a Dallas-based coupon company founded by TJ Person.
A company dedicated to drug designs to develop kinase inhibitors for healthcare of human and animals
Spruce is a mobile concierge platform for apartment communities.
People
Aziz Gilani
Employee
Blair Garrou
Employee
David Steakley
Investor
Dean McCall
Advisor
Grace Rodriguez
Employee
Kelly Quann Bianucci
Employee
Mark Hasebroock
Advisor
Misha Govshteyn
Advisor
Ned Hill
Employee
Steve Xu
Employee
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Ambyint
Cloudsnap
Olea Edge Analytics
Ripple Science
TeleVet
