Mercury Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in AI, blockchain, and other frontier technologies with a focus on entrepreneurs outside traditional coastal technology hubs. Mercury Fund's Twitter Score is 5.2 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #158,349 among 497,973 tracked accounts.
Mercury Fund was founded by Blair Garrou as Managing Partner and Dan Watkins as Venture Advisor, and is affiliated with MoreThan Capital. The firm typically deploys between $1 million and $5 million into seed-stage startups, concentrating on companies originating in middle America rather than established coastal tech centers. In September 2023, Mercury closed Mercury Fund V with $160 million in capital commitments.
Mercury Fund's blockchain investment thesis centers on stablecoins and tokenization. Among the firm's notable bets in this space is Plasma, a blockchain purpose-built for stablecoins and built on Bitcoin. The firm has also backed BitGo, a provider of regulated digital-asset custody, financial services, and infrastructure.
Mercury Fund's portfolio includes Topl, Collide and OpenTrade. Mercury Fund has published 5,574 posts on the platform. The account has been mentioned by 46 accounts a total of 83 times.
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