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.
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Funded Companies
Glycos BiotechnologiesGlycos Biotechnologies, founded in 2007, now known as GlycosBio, is a biotechnology company based in Houston, Texas . GlycosBio Asia is a subsidiary based in Malaysia .
Houston
ShareThisShareThis is a Palo Alto, California-based social media company.
Palo Alto, California
GraphiclyGraphicly is a company founded by Micah Baldwin.
Vistar MediaVistar Media is a company founded by Michael Provenzano, Jeremy Ozen and Mark Chadwick.
BlackLocusCompany
Austin, Texas
Ambiq Micro
Benson Hill BiosystemsAn agricultural biotechnology company developing crop design platform to increase intrinsic crop yield
Missouri
St. Louis
Raleigh, North Carolina
IllumitexIllumitex is an Austin, Texas-based company.
Alert Logic (company)Alert Logic is an Houston-based company.
Vertos MedicalA medical device company that develops treatments for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
San Jose, California
Datical
Koupon MediaKoupon Media is a Dallas-based coupon company founded by TJ Person.
Dallas
Confluence Life SciencesA company dedicated to drug designs to develop kinase inhibitors for healthcare of human and animals
Swift Biosciences
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Phurnace SoftwarePhurnace Software is a software company founded by Robert Reeves.
Spruce (home service)Spruce is a mobile concierge platform for apartment communities.
Amify
Alexandria
PactSafePactSafe is an Indianapolis-based company.
Indianapolis
BlackThorn TherapeuticsBlackThorn Therapeutics is a San Francisco-based company.
San FranciscoPeople
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
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Ambyint
Cloudsnap
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Ripple Science
TeleVet
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Cloudsnap (company)
Ambyint
TeleVet
