DFJ Mercury
DFJ Mercury

Contact information


One Greenway Plaza, Suite 930
Houston, TX 77046
P: 713-715-6820
F: 713-715-6826

www.dfjmercury.com

Team


Dan Watkins, PhD
Managing Director
 
Blair Garrou
Managing Director
 
Ned Hill
Managing Director
 
Paul Campbell, PhD
Director
 
Richard Johnson
Venture Partner
 

Overview

DFJ Mercury is a Texas-based, seed and early-stage venture capital firm. Since inception in early 2005, DFJ Mercury has been the most active start-up and seed-stage investor in Texas, and has become the "go-to" venture firm for Texas entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of idea generation, company formation, and market execution.

DFJ Mercury has extensive experience and strong relationships with technology transfer offices and appreciates hard science with solid intellectual property. Almost always the first institutional capital into the company, DFJ Mercury especially looks for opportunities to build capital-efficient companies that address billion dollar market opportunities, and often invest prior to a business plan or management team being formed.

Our team has a successful entrepreneurial track record, collectively having started or managed over a dozen start-ups. Over the past ten years of active involvement in the Texas entrepreneurial and venture community, we have built an unmatched reputation and network of relationships having launched several of the Texas "hubs" of technology entrepreneurship. These hubs have provided DFJ Mercury proprietary access to the most promising seed and early-stage investment opportunities in the region.