DFJ Mercury
DFJ Mercury

Contact information


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

Austin Office
Austin Technology Incubator
3925 West Braker Lane
3rd Floor - MCC Building
Austin, TX 78759

www.dfjmercury.com

Team


Dan Watkins, PhD
Managing Director
 
Blair Garrou
Managing Director
 
Ned Hill
Managing Director
 
Paul Campbell, PhD
Director
 
Jay Gardner
Venture Advisor
 
Aziz Gilani
Associate
 
Winston Gilpin
CFO
 

Overview

DFJ Mercury is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, DFJ Mercury invests in compelling and novel start-up opportunities in the information technology, advanced materials and bioscience sectors. DFJ Mercury seeks to partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs to build globally competitive businesses, focusing on investments emanating out of Texas and targeted regional tech clusters in the Mid - and Southwest. Our team has extensive experience and strong relationships with technology transfer offices, and appreciates hard science with solid intellectual property. Our Firm has a particular focus on university spin-outs and incubation, often investing prior to a business plan or management team being formed.

Since inception in early 2005, DFJ Mercury has been one of the most active start-up and seed-stage investor in Texas, has consistently rated as a "Top VC Firm for Entrepreneurs" by Entrepreneur Magazine, and has become a "go-to" venture firm for entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of idea generation, company formation, and market execution.