Mercury Fund
In this episode, our hosts are joined by Blair Garrou, Co-founder and Managing Director at Mercury Fund an early-stage venture capital firm focusing on entrepreneurs and technology innovation originating in the U.S. Midcontinent.
Hiring A Grade Talent for your Startup, with Mercury’s Blair Garrou
Blair Garrou, Co-Founder of Mercury, joins the inaugural episode of Go Slow Grow Fast to talk about how hiring grade A talent impacts fundraising valuations. In today’s down market, startups need to be extremely focused on the intersection of product market fit, company performance, and a solid tea…
Navigating the VC Landscape: Blair Garrou on Securing a $160 Million Round, the VC’s Role, and Crafting a Roadmap to Profitability with Blair Garrou
Blair Garrou, Managing Director at Mercury, brings his leadership in Houston venture capital to the pod to discuss the origins of Mercury and the shift in investing perspectives from growth to profitability. Having just closed their fifth fund a couple months ago, Blair is hopeful about the timing …
Blair Garrou from Mercury
AI is flipping the script on venture capital, and Blair Garrou has a front-row seat to the transformation. Chuck Yates sits down with the Mercury VC partner to talk about how AI is slashing startup costs, reshaping investment strategies, and fueling a new era of lean, high-impact teams. From genera…
What’s Next for VC? 3 Top Texas VCs Weigh In on Present Day Investments & Future Funding
What makes Texas’ VCs tick? In today's session, Blair Garrou, Managing Partner at Mercury, leads a panel discussion with 3 Austin-based VC firms on the current investment landscape in Texas. Joining Blair are esteemed venture capitalists Craig Cummings of Moonshots Capital, Conrad Shang of Ensemble…
CXO Summit Highlights: Growth Venture, Private Equity, & M&A Path to Liquidity
The Mercury CXO Summit in Austin is the largest gathering of software ecosystem participants in the Midcontinent and featured expert panels and next-level conversations. These conversations explored the full spectrum of growth stage capital, from sourcing venture capital and private equity to strat…
The Golden Era of Innovation: American Exceptionalism Needs New Tech to Survive
The first 100 days of President Trump's second term have been among the most destabilizing in history. Rapid changes in innovation policy have taken place, while AI has become unregulated, digital currencies are becoming more regulated, and America has developed a sharper focus on defense and space…
Building The Future of Agentic Commerce
As AI becomes a bigger part of everyday life, we take a look at how it can be applied in commerce, where software agents can search, decide, and complete transactions on a user’s behalf. Moderated by Blair Garrou, this session at Mercury Fund Day at The Ion breaks down the shift from real-time, use…
A Houston Startup Created 100 Millionaires, And Nobody Noticed | Blair Garrou
Houston built an e-commerce company to half a billion in revenue in under five years, minting about 100 millionaires along the way. It's also home to a rocket engine 15% more efficient than anything else on the market. None of it required moving to San Francisco.
Blair Garrou, co-founder and Managi…
Ep. 153: Blair Garrou, Mercury Fund | Operational Audits, Lean GTM Teams and Liquidity Planning
On this episode, Blair Garrou, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Mercury Fund, details the Mercury Method—a post-investment approach that borrows from private equity to lower loss ratios in early-stage venture. Learn how a 100-point operational hygiene audit surfaces the most urgent risks and how …
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