# Mercuri

> Mercuri is a VC fund in London backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 86 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 86
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 45%
- Fund size: $62M
- Last fund: Jul 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mercuri-vc
- Website: https://www.mercuri.vc

Mercuri is an early-stage venture capital fund that leads pre-seed and seed funding rounds for UK companies at the intersection of media, entertainment and technology. The firm is dedicated to backing outstanding entrepreneurs who are at the forefront of developing tech-driven products designed for the new age of enterprise and the digitallifestyle of the consumer.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $917k–$7.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $225k–$4M |
| Series A | $4.8M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 21 | 24% |
| Software | 12 | 14% |
| Machine Learning | 7 | 8% |
| Media and Entertainment | 7 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 7% |

87 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 24 | 28% |
| Pre-Seed | 20 | 23% |
| Series A | 10 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 9% |
| Convertible Note | 5 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 28 | 33% |
| United States | 14 | 16% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alan Hudson | Founding General Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-hudson |
| Denise Xifara | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denise-xifara |
| Dyson Bogg | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dyson-bogg |
| Ella Hughes | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ella-hughes-c299 |
| Hannah Green | Operations Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hannah-green |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Made With Intent | Made With Intent is a segmentation tool that allows data-driven retailers to quickly discern and target customer intent while optimizing marketing strategies. It enables retailers to interact successfully and increase conversions in today's competitive market context. | $3.3M | Seed | Feb 17, 2026 |  |
| Electric Twin | Electric Twin uses AI to simulate human behavior for decision-making and market analysis. | $10M | Series A | Feb 12, 2026 |  |
| Mozart AI | Artho has revealed its first product, Mozart AI, a groundbreaking AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that aims to accelerate and magnify human creativity. This hybrid musician will have complete control over their musical vision with no creative friction. They will create, engineer, and perform at the speed of their imagination. They willoutperform and innovate the best pure human artists by combining human artistry with AI co-creation. We are a team of musicians, technologists, and creative visionaries. | $6M | Seed | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Wonder Studios | Producing world-class original content | $12M | Seed | Oct 23, 2025 |  |
| Electric Twin | Electric Twin uses AI to simulate human behavior for decision-making and market analysis. |  | Seed | Sep 16, 2025 |  |
| Minitap | Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices. | $4.1M | Seed | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| GVTLabs | GVTLabs uses advance AI-driven computer vision and intelligent imaging solutions to provide insights on online videos. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 08, 2025 |  |
| Unbox | Unbox builds AI-powered infrastructure to turn social commerce into a sustainable revenue engine. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Aug 07, 2025 |  |
| GIBRAN | Gibran is an AI research and product company reimagining how artificial intelligence supports, rather than replaces, human creativity and autonomy. Gibran is building a new class of scale-free AI systems — models that evolve, adapt, and collaborate with humans in open-ended, creative ways. Unlike traditional automation tools, Gibran’s AI draws onprinciples from natural ecosystems and complex adaptive systems to augment how people think, decide, and create. | $2.6M | Seed | Jul 14, 2025 |  |
| Literal Labs | Literal Labs is transforming artificial intelligence with a breakthrough, logic-based architecture that is vastly faster, inherently explainable, and dramatically more energy-efficient than conventional neural networks.Originating from years of academic research and spun out of Newcastle University, Literal Labs replaces the power-hungry matrixmultipliers of traditional AI with a radically different approach: logic-based networks founded on propositional logic, Tsetlin machines, and full binarisation. This enables models to achieve inference speeds up to 250x faster than XGBoost, 54x faster than neural networks, consume 52x less energy, and offer built-in explainability—without sacrificing performance.The company is led by former Arm VP Noel Hurley and was established by two world-leading experts in logic-based AI, Dr. Alex Yakovlev and Dr. Rishad Shafik. Together, they are pioneering a new standard for intelligent systems: efficient, transparent, and engineered for real-world constraints.Literal Labs is dedicated to building the most computationally efficient and energy-conscious AI architecture on the market. | $6.2M | Pre-Seed | Jun 02, 2025 |  |

10 of 86 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [GMG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gmg-ventures) — VC Fund, 31 deals together
- [LocalGlobe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/localglobe) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Betaworks Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Guardian Media Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guardian-media-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Hearst Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hearst-interactive-media) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Ascension](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascension-ventures-limited) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Mercuri invest in?

Mercuri invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 86 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Mercuri's check size?

Mercuri typically joins rounds of $917k–$7.3M at Seed, $225k–$4M at Pre-Seed and $4.8M–$20M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mercuri participates in.

### How do I contact Mercuri?

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### Who are the partners at Mercuri?

The team at Mercuri includes Alan Hudson (Founding General Partner), Denise Xifara (Partner) and Dyson Bogg (Venture Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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