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Mercury Fund

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Mercury Fund is a seed-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Houston, Texas. Mercury invests in compelling and novel software and science-based startup opportunities, focusing on entrepreneurs and technology innovation in the Midcontinent. The firm has a particular interest in startups originating from seed accelerators, universities and incubators; and frequently invests prior to the formation of a business plan or complete management team.

Recent Milestones

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  Mercury Fund invested in Ambiq Micro. (11/2/12)
  Posted 1/11/13 at 6:20pm via bizjournals.com
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  Mercury Fund invested in Confluence Life Sciences. (9/17/12)
  Posted 9/17/12 at 7:06pm via finsmes.com
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  Mercury Fund invested in Macheen. (9/5/12)
  Posted 9/5/12 at 7:06pm via finsmes.com
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  Mercury Fund invested in Infochimps. (9/1/12)
  Posted 1/14/13 at 12:26pm via jameskaskade.com
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  Mercury Fund invested in Datical. (7/18/12)
  Posted 7/20/12 at 6:15am via sec.gov
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  Mercury Fund invested in Alert Logic. (6/5/12)
  Posted 6/5/12 at 5:47am via dowjones.com
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  Mercury Fund invested in Illumitex. (4/10/12)
  Posted 4/10/12 at 5:16pm via finsmes.com
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  Mercury Fund invested in Koupon Media. (4/9/12)
  Posted 4/9/12 at 1:51pm via venturebeat.com
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  Mercury Fund invested in Wide Open Spaces. (12/1/11)
  Posted 3/5/13 at 4:49am
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  Mercury Fund invested in Koupon Media. (11/9/11)
  Posted 11/9/11 at 2:04pm via yahoo.com
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  Mercury Fund invested in TechStars. (9/21/11)
  Posted 9/21/11 at 7:26pm via techcrunch.com
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  Mercury Fund invested in BlackLocus. (7/1/11)
  Posted 7/8/11 at 1:58am via bizjournals.com
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  Mercury Fund invested in Illumitex. (6/14/11)
  Posted 6/14/11 at 5:05pm via gigaom.com
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  Mercury Fund invested in Alert Logic. (4/11/11)
  Posted 4/11/11 at 5:51pm via alertlogic.com
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  Mercury Fund invested in GameSalad. (3/31/11)
  Posted 3/31/11 at 5:52pm via techcrunch.com
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  Mercury Fund invested in Graphicly. (1/25/11)
  Posted 1/25/11 at 8:49pm via finsmes.com

Investments

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1. DFJ Mercury Raises $70 Million Fund II (freshnews.com) [edit]
2. Venture Firm Targets Early Stage Tech Deals with First Fund (bizjournals.com) [edit]
3. Ambiq Micro Inc. receives $3.6M financing (bizjournals.com) [edit]
4. Confluence Life Sciences Raises $4M in Series A VC funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
5. Macheen Closes $10M Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
6. Infochimps raises another $1.9M in a bridge to Series B, capitalizing its new cloud launch. (jameskaskade.com) [edit]
7. SEC Form D (sec.gov) [edit]
8. Alert Logic Rings Up $12.2M for Cloud Security (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
9. Illumitex Secures $9.3M Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
10. Venture Beat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
11. Citation Needed [add]
12. Yahoo Finance! (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
13. Startup Incubator TechStars Raises $24M, Increases Funding For Each Company By $100K (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. BlackLocus snags $2.5M funding round (bizjournals.com) [edit]
15. Illumitex raises $13.5M for LED lighting (gigaom.com) [edit]
16. Alert Logic Closes $12.6 Million Funding Round (alertlogic.com) [edit]
17. GameSalad Raises $6.1 Million For iPhone And iPad Game Creation Tool (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. Graphicly Raises $3M in Series A Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
19. Ambiq Micro, Maker Of Microcontrollers, Closes $2.4M Seed Round (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
20. “Data marketplace” Infochimps raises $1.2M to build out its data offerings (venturebeat.com) [edit]
21. Kabongo scores $1.1M to make reading fun for kids (venturebeat.com) [edit]
22. Swift Biosciences, Inc.: Series A $3M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
23. Gendai Games Raises Over $1 Million For iPhone And iPad Game Creation Tool (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. AustinStartup (austinstartup.com) [edit]
25. Marval Biosciences, Inc.: Series B $2.5M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
26. Vertos Medical, Inc.: Series D $15.5M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
27. Graphic.ly Raises $1.2M For Comic Publishing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
28. qlt website (kabongo.com) [edit]
29. Glycos Biotechnologies, Inc. Closes Series A Round of $5 Million (techconnect.org) [edit]
30. ActaCell Closes $5.8 Million Series A Financing; Investment Consortium Led By DFJ Mercury Includes Google.org, Applied Ventures and Good Energies (actacell.com) [edit]
31. Phurnace Software completes $5M funding round (bizjournals.com) [edit]
32. Illumitex, a stealth LED maker, raises $5.25M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
33. Alert Logic Closes $8.25 Million in Series C Financing (updatapartners.com) [edit]
34. EDGAR [edit]
35. Phurnace Software, Inc. Raises Series A Financing (phurnace.com) [edit]
36. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
37. Security technology firms lock in fresh rounds of funding (houston.bizjournals.com) [edit]
38. UnWired Buyer Secures $6.1 Million in Series B Funding (unwiredbuyer.com) [edit]
39. EDGAR [edit]
40. Citation Needed [add]