# Mercury Capital Partners

> Mercury Capital Partners is a VC fund in Buffalo backing Audio, Video and Gaming. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Buffalo, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.mercurycapitalpartners.com

Mercury Capital Partners is a New York-based private equity firm focused on the media, communication, and entertainment industries. The firm typically makes individual investments between $2 million and $20 million dollars in a wide variety of media businesses. Mercury will often act as the lead investor in an investment round, will often have acontrolling interest in its investments, and will often actively manage its investments.Mercury Capital Partners was founded in 2015 and is based in Buffalo, New York, United States.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Audio | 1 | 33% |
| Video | 1 | 33% |
| Gaming | 1 | 33% |
| Banking | 1 | 33% |
| FinTech | 1 | 33% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| Australia | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cape | Cape is building a new finance automation platform, focussed on helping Australian businesses cut wasteful spending and the time taken on financial administration tasks. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jan 14, 2022 |  |
| Three Rings | Three Rings was an internet games development company based in San Francisco. Puzzle Pirates (casual action puzzle MMOARRPG) was their first and most successful title, followed by Bang! Howdy (Steampunk tactical turn-based MMO), Whirled (user-created Flash / web virtual world) and Spiral Knights (action adventure MMO). Three Rings also made aDoctor Who game with the BBC, a How to Train your Dragon game with Dreamworks and various Facebook games and other experiments. Three Rings was acquired by SEGA of Japan in 2011 and operated as a studio within SEGA until early 2016. | $3.5M | Series B | Aug 01, 2007 |  |
| PixFusion | PixFusion offers personalized entertainment solutions for adults, teens, and the youth. It offers mobile apps, DVDs, and streaming and downloading videos. | $4.2M | Series A | Oct 21, 2006 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amicus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amicus-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aura Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aura-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chance Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chance-technolog) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Investible](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investible) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Scalare Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scalare-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Stonehenge Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stonehenge-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Mercury Capital Partners invest in?

Mercury Capital Partners invests primarily in Audio, Video and Gaming startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Mercury Capital Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mercury Capital Partners closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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