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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.”
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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.
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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=
 
Mercury Fund’s notable Successes include Alert Logic, a “security-as-a-service” software company that was acquired by Welsh Carson; BlackLocus, which provides retailers with data to help them make pricing decisions and was bought by Home Depot; Infochimps, which provides software to manage big data and was purchased by Computer Sciences Corp; DNAtrix, a biotech company that’s received millions of dollars in grants from the federal and state government.
 
 
 
 
 
==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
 

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