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Aclaimant
Headquarters
Chicago, IL
Founders / Leadership
David Wald, CEO and Co-Founder
Joel Friedman, Co-Founder
Michael Schultz, Co-Founder
Jim Farber, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Adrian Fortino

Aclaimant is a claims lifecycle management platform designed to help businesses manage workplace incidents and the commercial P&C insurance claims process.

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Ambiq Micro
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founders / Leadership
Humi Esaka, CEO
Scott Hanson Ph.D, Co-Founder
Dennis Sylvester Ph.D, Co-Founder
David Blaauw Ph.D, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Adrian Fortino

Ambiq Micro is a fabless semiconductor company that has developed the world’s lowest power, energy-efficient timing and power management ICs that solve the most demanding system requirements for battery-powered devices.

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Ambyint
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founders / Leadership
Benjamin Kemp, CEO
Nav Dhunay, Founder
Mercury Team
Adrian Fortino
Dan Watkins

Ambyint brings intelligence and insight to oil and gas production through emerging technologies, including IIoT, Big Data, and Machine Learning.

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Amify
Headquarters
Arlington, VA
Founders / Leadership
Ethan McAfee, CEO and Founder
Mercury Team
Aziz Gilani
Blair Garrou

Amify provides a platform of automated and managed services to allow brands to maximize sales and improve profitability in the Amazon marketplace channel.

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Blumira
Headquarters
Ann Arbor, MI
Founders / Leadership
Steve Fuller, CEO and Co-Founder
Matthew Warner, CTO and Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Aziz Gilani

Blumira is a next-gen, mid-market security information and event management (SIEM) platform.

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Buildforce
Headquarters
Moody Heard, CEO and Founder
Founders / Leadership
Moody Heard, CEO and Founder
Mercury Team
Adrian Fortino
Heath Butler

Buildforce is an online talent management platform for the construction industry.

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Cart.com
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founders / Leadership
Omair Tariq, CEO and Co-Founder
James Jacobsen, Chairman and Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Blair Garrou

Cart.com is the first end-to-end ecommerce solutions provider delivering a fully integrated and owned suite of software, expert services and infrastructure to scale businesses online.

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Chain.io
Headquarters
Philadelphia, PA
Founders / Leadership
Brian Glick, CEO and Founder
Mercury Team
Adrian Fortino
Blair Garrou

Chain.io is a cloud-based supply chain integration platform connecting the industry’s best-in-class tools and trading partners to create data visibility across systems.

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careviso
Headquarters
Falls Church, VA
Founders / Leadership
Andrew Mignatti, CEO and Co-Founder
Pericles Dimas, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Aziz Gilani
Dan Watkins

careviso provides prior authorization (PA) services on behalf of physicians and labs to ensure that the diagnostic tests they order are approved and reimbursed by insurance companies.

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Cooklist
Headquarters
Dallas, TX
Founders / Leadership
Daniel Vitiello, CEO and Co-Founder
Brandon Warman, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Samantha Lewis
Blair Garrou

Cooklist is an automation platform enabling households to seamlessly plan, shop and track their pantry based on individual dietary preferences.

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ESG solutions
Headquarters
Tomball, TX
Founders / Leadership
David Moore, CEO
Trevor Pugh, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Dan Watkins

ESG Solutions provides world-leading subsurface diagnostic solutions that drive decision-making for operations of every size.

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DNAtrix
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founders / Leadership
Jeffrey Knapp, CEO
Candelaria Gomez-Manzano MD, Co-founder
Juan Fueyo MD, Co-founder
Wai-Kwan Yung MD, Co-founder
Charles Conrad MD, Co-founder
Mercury Team
Dan Watkins

DNAtrix is a biotech company commercializing an oncolytic virus therapy for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), an aggressive form of brain cancer, but with applicability to other cancers.

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GameSalad
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founders / Leadership
Tan Tran, CEO and Co-Founder
Joshua Seaver, Co-Founder
Dan Treiman, Co-Founder
Michael Agustin, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Aziz Gilani

GameSalad provides a drag-and-drop coding platform allowing game developers to design, publish, and distribute games for iOS, Android, and HTML5.

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Graylog
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founders / Leadership
Andy Grolnick, CEO
Lennart Koopmann, Co-Founder
Hass Chapman, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Aziz Gilani

Graylog is a fully integrated open source log management platform for collecting, indexing, and analyzing structured and unstructured data from any source.

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Ironclad
Headquarters
San Francisco
Founders / Leadership
Jason Boehmig, CEO and Co-Founder
Cai GoGwilt, CTO and Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Adrian Fortino
Blair Garrou

IronClad is the leading digital platform bringing teams, processes, and data together to make better, faster business contracts. Mercury’s investment in IronClad came through the company’s acquisition of Mercury portfolio company PactSafe.

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Liquibase
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founders / Leadership
Dion Cornett, CEO
Robert Reeves, Co-Founder
Pete Pickerill, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Aziz Gilani

Liquibase provides a cloud-based platform for managing agile database deployments.

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LISNR
Headquarters
Cincinnati, OH
Founders / Leadership
Eric Allen, CEO
Rodney Williams, Founder
Mercury Team
Blair Garrou
Heath Butler

LISNR is the leading data-over-sound platform enabling proximity verification and contactless transaction authentication for merchants, financial service providers, and mobility enterprises.

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MEAC
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founders / Leadership
Blair Garrou, Chairman
Andrew White, President and CEO
Mercury Team
Blair Garrou
Andrew White

Mercury Ecommerce Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ: MEAC) is a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses in the e-commerce technology platform and tech-enabled services industry in North America.

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Molecule
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founders / Leadership
Sameer Soleja, CEO and Co-Founder
Adam Strickland, Co-Founder
Randy Baker, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Blair Garrou

Molecule Software is a SaaS-based energy trading and risk management (ETRM) platform.

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Neumora
Headquarters
Boston, MA
Founders / Leadership
Paul Berns, MD, CEO and Co-Founder
Mike Pool, Advisor and Co-Founder
Carol Suh, VP Business Development and Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Dan Watkins

Neumora is pioneering a new platform of precision machines to restore brain health and wellbeing. Mercury’s investment in Neumora came through the company’s acquisition of Mercury portfolio company BlackThorn.

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Olea Networks
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founders / Leadership
Dave Mackie, CEO and Founder
Mercury Team
Dan Watkins
Adrian Fortino

Olea Edge Analytics offers an end-to-end monitoring solution designed to improve water utility revenue streams.

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RepeatMD
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founders / Leadership
Phil Sitter, Founder & CEO
Mercury Team
Aziz Gilani
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Resonant
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founders / Leadership
John Westwick, CEO and Co-Founder
Stephen Weiss MD, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Dan Watkins

Resonant Therapeutics has developed a data science-enabled platform for the rapid discovery of novel targets and high-affinity, functional antibodies for cancer.

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Ripple Science
Headquarters
Ann Arbor, MI
Founders / Leadership
Peter Falzon, CEO
Nestor Lopez-Duran Ph.D, Co-Founder
Jacob Bonenberger, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Dan Watkins
Adrian Fortino

Ripple Science is a SaaS platform designed to facilitate the recruitment and management of research participants for clinical studies

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ShareThis
Headquarters
Palo Alto, CA
Founders / Leadership
Dana Hayes, Jr., CEO
Timothy Schigel, Co-Founder
David Goldberg Ph.D, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Blair Garrou

ShareThis is a web and mobile publisher platform that offers sharing widgets, developer tools, and an analytics dashboard detailing social sharing trends across sites, enabling advertisers to run targeted campaigns across the web.

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Sight Machine
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founders / Leadership
Jon Sobel, CEO and Co-Founder
Nathan Oostendorp, Co-Founder
Kurt DeMaagd Ph.D, Co-Founder
Anthony Oliver, Co-Founder
Adam Taisch, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Adrian Fortino
Dan Watkins

Sight Machine is the leading manufacturing analytics platform, transforming machine, sensor, and parts data into actionable insights for manufacturing firms worldwide.

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Signal Advisors
Headquarters
Detroit, MI
Founders / Leadership
Patrick Kelly, CEO and Co-Founder
Jacob Cohen, Co-Founder
Kevin O'Hara, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Adrian Fortino

Signal Advisors is a tech-enabled distributor of finance products for retirees.

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Spruce
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founders / Leadership
Ben Johnson, CEO and Founder
Mercury Team
Blair Garrou
Adrian Fortino

Spruce is a mobile concierge platform proving an innovative, hotel-style living experience to apartment residents.

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TeleVet
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founders / Leadership
Steven Carter, CEO and Co-Founder
Price Fallin, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Heath Butler
Blair Garrou

TeleVet is a modern mobile app extension for veterinarian practice management systems. The Company’s platform allows veterinary clinics to offer telemedicine and conduct virtual consultations via text, email, and video, saving their clients time while providing professional care from the convenience of the vet’s own home.

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Topl
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founders / Leadership
Kim Raath, CEO and Co-Founder
James Aman Ph.D, Co-Founder
Christopher Georgen, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Samantha Lewis
Blair Garrou

Topl is a purpose-built blockchain platform enabling the digitization and verification of ESG across supply chains.

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TrackX
Headquarters
Denver, CO
Founders / Leadership
Tim Harvie, CEO and Founder
Mercury Team
Blair Garrou
Heath Butler

TrackX is a SaaS-based enterprise tracing, tracking, and collaboration solution that leading brands trust to achieve more sustainable and better performing supply chains.

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Upgrade
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founders / Leadership
Britney Winters, CEO and Founder
Mercury Team
Heath Butler

Upgrade is an e-commerce platform dedicated to beauty products and services.

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Volt
Headquarters
Tulsa, OK
Founders / Leadership
Martin Lien, CEO and Co-founder
Matt Morfopoulos, Co-founder
Mercury Team
Aziz Gilani

Volt is an enhanced SMS marketing management system for improved customer acquisition, experience, and servicing.

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WizeHire
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founders / Leadership
Sid Upadhyay, CEO and Co-Founder
Jay Niblick, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Heath Butler

Wizehire is a recruiting management platform helping SMBs make better hiring decisions.

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Yottled
Headquarters
Ann Arbor, MI
Founders / Leadership
Trevor Hough, CEO and Co-Founder
Will Guedes, CTO and Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Adrian Fortino
Blair Garrou

Yottled is the leading all-in-one software platform helping thousands of small services-oriented SMBs successfully run their business.

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Zirtue
Headquarters
Dallas, TX
Founders / Leadership
Dennis Cail, CEO
Mercury Team
Samantha Lewis

Zirtue is a relationship-based lending platform automating debt-collection payments from consumers for the underlying creditor and/or the family/friend lender. 

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Prior Investments

Alert Logic
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founders / Leadership
John Post, CEO
Misha Govshteyn, Co-Founder
Matt Harkrider, Co-founder
Chris Church, Co-founder
Mercury Team
Blair Garrou
Acquired By
Welsh Carson
Exit Date
2013

Alert Logic is the industry’s first SaaS-enabled managed detection and response (MDR) provider, delivering unrivaled security value. The company was acquired by private equity firm Welsh Carson in 2013.

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Apto
Headquarters
Denver, CO
Founders / Leadership
Tanner McGraw, Founder and CEO
Mercury Team
Blair Garrou
Acquired By
BuildOut
Exit Date
2021

Apto is the leading CRM platform for the commercial real estate industry. The company was acquired by BuildOut in 2021.

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Benson Hill
Headquarters
St. Louis, MO
Founders / Leadership
Matthew Crisp, CEO and Co-Founder
Todd Mockler Ph.D, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Dan Watkins
Adrian Fortino
Acquired By
Star Peak Corp II
Exit Date
2021

Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural genetic diversity of plants to help modernize the world’s food system. The company went public (NYSE: BHIL) in 2021 through an acquisition by Star Peak Corp II.

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Black Locus
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founders / Leadership
Rodrigo Carvalho, Co-Founder and CEO
Lucas Bouvie, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Blair Garrou
Aziz Gilani
Acquired By
The Home Depot
Exit Date
2013

Black Locus is the leading SaaS pricing analysis and optimization platform for online retailers. The company was acquired by The Home Depot in 2013.

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Blackthorn
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founders / Leadership

Greg Vontz, CEO
Edward Roberts Ph.D, Co-Founder
Hugh Rosen Ph.D, Co-Founder
William Martin Ph.D, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Dan Watkins

BlackThorn is a computational platform for developing targeted treatments for neuro-developmental disorders.

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Clean Chemistry
Headquarters
Boulder, CO
Founders / Leadership
Damon Waters, Co-founder
Wayne Buschmann, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Adrian Fortino
Dan Watkins
Acquired By
Black Bay Energy Capital
Exit Date
2018

Clean Chemistry is a data-tunable platform to address modern industrial water management challenges. The company was acquired by private equity firm Black Bay Energy Capital in 2018.

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Cloudsnap
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founders / Leadership
Matt Bradley, CEO
Rick Barkley, Founder
Mercury Team
Aziz Gilani
Heath Butler
Acquired By
Paylocity
Exit Date
2022

Cloudsnap is a no-code “Integration Platform as a Service” (iPaaS) solution enabling non-IT professionals to Cloudsnap is a no-code “Integration Platform as a Service” (iPaaS) solution enabling non-IT professionals to integrate common enterprise cloud applications to premier ERP solutions without the need for expensive, complex, and time-consuming API development and integration services. The company was acquired by Paylocity in 2022.

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Courier
Headquarters
St. Louis, MO
Founders / Leadership
John Westwick, CEO and Co-Founder
Daved Fremont, Co-Founder
Eric Lazear Ph.D, Co-Founder
Alexander Krupnick MD, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Dan Watkins

Courier is a data-driven platform for developing highly targeted cancer therapies.

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Deepfield
Headquarters
Ann Arbor, MI
Founders / Leadership
Craig Labovitz Ph.D, Co-Founder and CEO
Joe Eggleston, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Adrian Fortino
Acquired By
Nokia
Exit Date
2016

DeepField is the leading cloud-based network mapping and analytics platform. The company was acquired by Nokia in 2016.

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Donde
Headquarters
Cincinnati, OH
Founders / Leadership
Anthony Nicalo, CEO and Co-Founder
Fabien Allanic, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Blair Garrou
Acquired By
Mobify/Salesforce
Exit Date
2015

Donde is a SaaS-based mobile locator service for brands and retailers. The company was acquired by Mobify in 2015, which was subsequently acquired by Salesforce in 2020.

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Experiment Engine
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founders / Leadership
Claire Vo, CPO and Co-Founder
Edward Lawless, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Aziz Gilani
Acquired By
Optimizely
Exit Date
2017

Experiment Engine is an online management platform and marketplace for website A/B testing. The company was acquired by Optimizely in 2017.

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Infochimps
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founders / Leadership
Jim Kaskade, CEO
Joseph Kelly, Co-founder
Philip Kromer, Co-Founder
Dhruv Bansal, Co-Founder
Nicholas Ducoff JD, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Aziz Gilani
Blair Garrou
Acquired By
CSC
Exit Date
2013

Infochimps is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for managing big data environments. The company was acquired by CSC in 2013.

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Koupon
Headquarters
Addison, TX
Founders / Leadership
Brad VanOtterloo, CEO
TJ Person, Chairman and Founder
Mercury Team
Blair Garrou
Aziz Gilani
Acquired By
PDI
Exit Date
2021

Koupon is an innovative mobile coupon delivery, fulfillment, and analytics platform for convenience store retailers and CPG brands to connect with shoppers and grow sales. The company was acquired by PDI in 2021.

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Label Insight
Headquarters
Chicago, IL
Founders / Leadership
Todd Morris, CEO
Anton Xavier, Co-Founder
Dagan Xavier, Co-Founder
Dheeraj Patri, Co-Founder
Ronak Sheth, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Blair Garrou
Aziz Gilani
Acquired By
NielsenIQ
Exit Date
2021

Label Insight is a cloud-based platform providing product label transparency through data science. The company was acquired by Nielsen IQ in 2021.

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Meshify
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founders / Leadership
Dane Witbeck, CEO and Co-Founder
Lewis Wight, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Adrian Fortino
Acquired By
HSB Group
Exit Date
2016

Meshify is a SaaS-based platform enabling device management for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The company was acquired by HSB in 2016.

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Modest
Headquarters
Chicago, IL
Founders / Leadership
Harper Reed, CEO and Co-Founder
Dylan Richard, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Aziz Gilani
Acquired By
PayPal
Exit Date
2015

Modest is an e-commerce platform enabling retailers to build native mobile applications with shopping cart capabilities. The company was acquired by PayPal in 2015.

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PatientIO
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founders / Leadership
Jason Bornhorst, CEO and Co-Founder
Colin Anawaty, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Blair Garrou
Acquired By
athenahealth
Exit Date
2016

PatientIO is a SaaS-based, mobile care management platform for managed healthcare providers. PatientIO was acquired by athenaheath in 2016.

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PactSafe
Headquarters
Indianapolis, IN
Founders / Leadership
Brian Powers, CEO and Co-Founder
Adam Gillaspie, Co-Founder
Eric Prugh, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Adrian Fortino
Blair Garrou
Acquired By
Ironclad
Exit Date
2021

PactSafe is a SaaS-based legal platform for high volume, click-through contracts. The company was acquired by IronClad in 2021.

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Performix
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founders / Leadership
Sham Afzalpurkar, Founder and CEO
Mercury Team
Blair Garrou
Winston Gilpin
Acquired By
Honeywell
Exit Date
2021

Performix is the leading manufacturing execution system (MES) for the batch process industries. The company was acquired by Honeywell in 2021.

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Phurnace Software
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founders / Leadership
Larry Warnock, CEO
Robert Reeves, Co-Founder
Daniel Nelson, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Blair Garrou
Acquired By
BMC Software
Exit Date
2009

Phurnace is a DevOps software platform that accelerates deployments and troubleshoots configuration problems for Java-based enterprise software applications. The company was acquired by BMC Software in 2009.

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Retention.ai
Headquarters
Palo Alto, CA
Founders / Leadership
Abhimanyu Dikshit, Co-Founder
Anshul Singhle, Co-Founder
Manan Shah , Co-Founder
Amritanshu Anand, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Aziz Gilani
Acquired By
Inshorts.com
Exit Date
2015

Retention.ai is a data analytics platform that helps mobile app developers in analyzing user behavior. The company was acquired by India-based InShorts in 2015.

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Trendkite
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founders / Leadership
Erik Huddleston, CEO
Matthew Allison, Co-Founder
AJ Bruno, Co-Founder
Mercury Team
Blair Garrou
Aziz Gilani
Acquired By
Cision
Exit Date
2019

TrendKite is leading AI-driven, marketing analytics platform for PR professionals. The company was acquired by Cision in 2019.

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