# Mercury Fund

> Mercury Fund is a VC fund in Houston backing Software and SaaS. See 171 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Houston, United States
- Total investments: 171
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 37%
- Fund size: $160M
- Last fund: Sep 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/89092
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/mercuryfund
- Website: http://www.mercuryfund.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mercury-Fund-132305900149955/

Mercury Fund is a VC fund in Houston focused on Software and SaaS. Mercury is an early-stage venture capital platform that seeks out transformative software startups, led by exceptional founders, in communities across America. To date, Mercury has created over $9 billion of value with an operationally-focused venture investment strategy helping startups achieve rapid, sustainable growth. Mercury partners withfirst-time entrepreneurs who require support and guidance, as well as seasoned founders seeking to leverage the assets and talent of our growth partner network.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $775k–$6M |
| Series A | $1M–$15M |
| Series B | $3.6M–$43M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 28 | 16% |
| SaaS | 15 | 9% |
| Health Care | 14 | 8% |
| Biotechnology | 13 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 13 | 8% |

146 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 41 | 24% |
| Seed | 26 | 15% |
| Series B | 25 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 15 | 9% |
| Debt Financing | 13 | 8% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 79 | 46% |
| India | 2 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adrian Fortino | Managing Director | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrian-fortino |
| Andreas Galliker | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-galliker |
| Aziz Gilani | Managing Director | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aziz-gilani |
| Blair Garrou | Co-Founder and Managing Director | 57 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blair-garou |
| Dan Watkins | Co-Founder and Managing Director | 32 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-watkins |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BRANDRANK.AI | BRANDRANK.AI help Brands continuously monitor and strengthen positioning using generative AI. | $3M | Seed | Jul 28, 2026 |  |
| OpenTrade | OpenTrade gives Web3 treasurers and institutional investors access to on-chain structured financial products backed by investment grade financial assets, resulting in predictable returns that are uncorrelated with cryptocurrency. | $17M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 06, 2026 |  |
| Dreambase | Dreambase develops AI-powered analytics software that enables organizations to generate insights, dashboards, and reports directly from their database without requiring traditional data infrastructure. The platform connects to data sources such as Supabase or PostgreSQL and analyzes schema, relationships, and usage patterns to automatically producemetrics and visualizations. Its system uses AI agents to perform tasks typically handled by data teams, including querying databases, identifying trends, building pipelines, and delivering recommendations based on real-time data. The platform eliminates the need for external data warehouses or manual event tracking by treating the database as the primary source of truth and generating insights directly from it. | $3.7M | Seed | Apr 29, 2026 |  |
| Rowan | Rowan is an AI-powered platform that provides specialised tools to automate data organisation and professionalise small business succession. | $3.3M | Seed | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| Cart.com | Cart.com is the provider of comprehensive commerce and logistics solutions that unify commerce operations across channels and capabilities, enabling B2C and B2B companies to operate seamlessly across channels and sell and fulfill anywhere their customers are. Cart.com drives powers digital and physical commerce operations for over 6,000 customers,including some of the most beloved consumer brands and most complex B2B organizations. With over 1,000 employees, a team of AI and data scientists and 14 warehouses nationwide, our scale allows us to support middle market and enterprise level companies across industries. | $180M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 04, 2026 |  |
| OpenTrade | OpenTrade gives Web3 treasurers and institutional investors access to on-chain structured financial products backed by investment grade financial assets, resulting in predictable returns that are uncorrelated with cryptocurrency. | $7M | Seed | Jun 11, 2025 |  |
| Collide | Collide is an energy industry knowledge-sharing platform that is driven by the community. An exclusive forum for discussing specific technical knowledge that brings together thousands of engineers, geoscientists, and field operators. | $5M | Seed | Apr 15, 2025 |  |
| KODE Health | KODE Health is an on-demand medical coding solution for maximum flexibility, quality, and control for systems and Koders alike. KODE is a health-tech company seeking to break the traditional model of medical coding and created the first and only on-demand platform that connects healthcare providers and coders in real time. Its headquarters islocated in Holland, Michigan. | $27M | Series B | Jan 30, 2025 |  |
| SmartAC.com | The SmartAC.com platform enables a proactive approach to HVAC & plumbing maintenance, notifying contractors and homeowners of a potential breakdown or water leak before catastrophic damage can occur. The sensors monitor cooling and heating performance, airflow, air filter life, drain lines and water leak prone locations... to ensure the healthof critical HVAC & plumbing systems.SmartAC.com service includes a lifetime warranty on the hardware, daily system health checks, monthly health report emails, discounted air filters, active water leak monitoring, and real-time chat with certified HVAC experts. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 16, 2024 |  |
| MealMe | MealMe's Universal Point of Sale API provides real-time data and ordering of 700M+ products from 1M+ restaurants, grocery stores, and retail stores in the US and Canada. MealMe’s product database provides valuable menus and inventory which can be used for competitive pricing intelligence or to populate the frontend of any website or app.MealMe’s proprietary technology is the first of its kind to allow any website or app to embed product ordering and own the checkout flow. If you need real-time menus or grocery store inventory and the ability to order products from local stores, MealMe has the complete solution for you. | $8M | Series A | Oct 31, 2024 |  |

10 of 171 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DFJ Mercury](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dfj-mercury-894f) — VC Fund, 35 deals together
- [Dundee Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dundee-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Austin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Houston Angel Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/houston-angel-network) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
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- [Cultivation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cultivation-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Mercury Fund invest in?

Mercury Fund invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 171 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Mercury Fund's check size?

Mercury Fund typically joins rounds of $775k–$6M at Seed, $1M–$15M at Series A and $3.6M–$43M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mercury Fund participates in.

### How do I contact Mercury Fund?

Public channels for Mercury Fund include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Mercury Fund?

The team at Mercury Fund includes Adrian Fortino (Managing Director), Andreas Galliker (Chief Financial Officer) and Aziz Gilani (Managing Director), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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