We are thrilled to report that Mercury Fund portfolio company TrendKite has been acquired by Cision (NYSE: CISN) for $225 million. The acquisition enables Cision, the global leader in PR software, to integrate TrendKite’s best-in-class PR analytics and artificial intelligence platform into a single cloud offering. The merger also …
While open source and SaaS continue to serve as mediums for delivering software applications and data science capabilities to enterprises, Mercury has identified a continued movement of entrepreneurs in the Midcontinent who are reinventing traditional outsourced enterprise services firms by “in-housing” data and business process automation technology. These TechNative Services …
40 Austin startups raised $385.9 million in Q2, was published in Venture Beat and was written by Mary Ann Azevedo.
Blair Garrou, Partner at Mercury Fund, discusses the future of Houston’s startup scene.
Second quarter venture investment in Texas once again reflected a common trend: Austin nabbed the most amount …
How Houston plans to turn into an innovative tech hub, and when the idea got wings, was published in Houston Business Journal and was written by Joe Martin.
Blair Garrou, Partner at Mercury Fund, discusses the Greater Houston Partnership’s Innovation Strategy Office and Houston’s future as a tech hub.…
VCs remain optimistic about Austin despite overall tech slowdown, was published in Crain’s Austin and was written by Mary Ann Azevedo.
Aziz Gilani, Partner at Mercury Fund, shares his insight into Austin’s sustainability as a thriving city for entrepreneurs.
While much of the nation is seeing declines in venture capital …
9 Secrets Of Data-Driven Companies, was published on InformationWeek and was written by
Lisa Morgan.
Aziz Gilani, Partner at Mercury Fund, shares his insight into how companies that are using data to fuel customer-centricity have shifted their hiring and workflow allocations.
Mercury Fund portfolio company, TrendKite, is an example …
In November at the Rice Alliance IT and Web Venture Forum, Emily Keeton and I announced we were launching Station Houston, a new coworking organization that will bring together key players in Houston’s startup community to launch software startups.
Station Houston to open at SURGE Shack on March 1st…
This interview was originally featured in the Houston Business Journal
One of Mercury Fund’s Managing Partners, Blair Garrou, sat down with Houston Business Journal to discuss challenges facing the venture capital industry and the Houston startup ecosystem.
Photo: Jackson Myers
What’s one part of your job that people don’t know …
This article was originally featured on VentureBeat
Two years ago, the $2 million seed round was unheard of—a funding unicorn of sorts. Today, you hear about a new one every day.
As seed rounds swell, the number of Series A and B rounds remain the same, leading to the now-familiar …
Sometimes the journey to investment is a long one, and that certainly was the case with TrendKite. Mercury originally met TrendKite while they were part of DreamIt Ventures‘ inaugural Austin class in 2013. We liked the Company’s founders, Matt Allison and AJ Bruno, and were fascinated by the concept of …
