20+ Years of Building Outside Silicon Valley
Mercury partners with founders reimagining core industries including financial services, retail and supply chain, healthcare, energy and industrials, construction, manufacturing, and defense. Mercury has helped create over $18 billion of value for our startups with an operationally-focused investment strategy that helps early-stage startups achieve rapid, sustainable growth.
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Blockchain
Mercury's blockchain thesis is anchored in two core, converging trends: stablecoins and tokenization. This means we back the companies building the picks and shovels such as custody, settlement, stablecoin infrastructure, yield products, tokenization platforms, and agentic commerce enablement that institutions will increasingly depend on to operate.
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At the core of Mercury’s value-added platform is the Mercury Method, a structured and proven approach and resources for providing operational support to our portfolio companies. Mercury’s "Go Slow to Grow Fast" methodology means we prioritize a strong operational foundation before accelerating growth activity, allowing our startups to be efficient with their capital.
At the launch of every investment, Mercury begins with an operational assessment to highlight any inefficiencies. The assessment starts during pre-investment diligence as our team evaluates a startup across its team, tools, and processes. Post-investment, our OpsHygiene framework highlights key areas for improvement, both in the short and mid-term of the startup lifecycle.
After OpsHygiene assessments are complete, Mercury provides companies with the option of utilizing experienced fractional execs to implement agreed-upon improvements and enhancements quickly and correctly.
Quicksilver Labs is Mercury's AI research lab allowing founders to accelerate product and technical development, keeping our startups on par with their Silicon Valley AI competitors. Quicksilver works with existing portfolio companies to keep them up to date on the latest tools, trends, and best practices for AI and data science development. Quicksilver also partners with new startups to provide advice, assistance, and fractional resources so that they can build and hire faster. Learn more.
Unlike most VC firms, Mercury builds liquidity planning into every portfolio relationship from the moment of investment. Our belief is that companies should begin liquidity planning 18-24 months prior to actually being “ready” for M&A discussions. The liquidity planning process is performed with PE and strategic acquirers in mind for many of our startups, and IPO considerations for those companies that have reached hyper-scale.
