Mercury Fund

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Mercury Fund is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm. The firm’s total capital under management is $200 million. Mercury selectively invests in promising software and science-based startup opportunities and has a focus on technology innovation in the U.S. Mid-continent. According to co-founder Blair Garrou “innovation doesn’t only happen on the coasts.”

The fund was founded in 2005 by Blair Garrou and Dan Watkins who are still among five partners that now direct the firm. Their previous funds totaled $20 million in 2006, $70 million in 2010, and $105 million in 2014. From this third fund they made initial investments between $50,000 and $2 million with designs to fund up to $5 million over the life of a company. These investments also include some mentorship and networking for clients and talent.

The fund also prefers working with startups that have come through local accelerators, with one of the reasons being that Mercury has developed relationships with many, some even helping to found.

http://mercuryfund.com/

http://www.xconomy.com/texas/2014/12/05/houston-venture-capital-firm-mercury-fund-closes-105m-third-fund/

Team

Partners

Blair Garrou https://www.linkedin.com/in/bgarrou (Co-Founder)

Dan Watkins, PhD https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-watkins-2880141 (Co-Founder)

Aziz Gilani https://www.linkedin.com/in/azizgilani

Danny Janiak, PhD https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieljaniak

Adrian Fortino https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianfortino

Operations

Winston Gilpin https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstongilpin

Andreas Galliker https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasgalliker

Lauren-Kristine Pryzant https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenkristine

Tolonye Williams

Advisors

Paul Campbell, Rich Cilento, Andrew Clark, Scott Forrest, Jay Gardner, Misha Govshteyn, Mark Hasebroock, Ned Hill, Emily Keeton, David Olson PhD, Don Schemer MD, Rob Schultz, Jennifer West PhD, John Westwic PhD

Portfolio

Software

Apto

Vatical

Deerfield

GameSalad

Grayling

Coupon

Label Insight

LISNR

ShareThis

Sight Machine

TrendKite

Unwired Nation

Science

Ambiq Micro

Apsara

Benson Hill

BlackThorn

Clean Chemistry

Confluence

Deep Imaging Technologies

DNAtrix Therapeutics

GlycosBio

Illumitex

Prolacta Bioscience

Synopsis Surgical

Swift Biosciences

Versos Medical

Exits

Alert Logic

BlackLocus

Cage

Dónde

FluenSee

Info chimps

Machine

Modest

Furnace Software

Retention.ai


http://mercuryfund.com/companies/

Locations

Primary Offices

Houston

One Greenway Plaza

Suite 930

Houston, TX 77046

Ann Arbor

303 Detroit Street

Suite 100

Ann Arbor, MI 48104

San Diego

1025 Prospect St.

Suite 390

La Jolla, CA 92037

Secondary Offices

Austin

Sechstars Austin

412 Congress Ave.

Austin, TX 78701

Cincinnati

Centrifuge

299 E 6th St

Cincinnati, OH 45202

Chicago

1871

222 W. Merch Mart

Chicago, IL 60654