Mercury Fund

Summary

In 2005 was created Mercury Fund, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Houston. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund was created by Blair Garrou, Dan Watkins. We also calculated 10 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Mercury Fund, startups are often financed by ff Venture Capital, Austin Ventures, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are DFJ, Huron River Ventures, Austin Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ff Venture Capital, Houston Angel Network, Serra Ventures.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Alert Logic, Sight Machine, DNAtriX Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Energy, Biotechnology.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Mercury Fund performs on 17 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The high activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Mercury Fund is 10-50 millions dollars.