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Blair Garrou

Investor at Mercury

Houston, Texas

Overview 

Blair Garrou is a Venture Capitalist at Mercury in Houston, Texas, with a focus on investing in post-seed and Series A startups in sectors like Media/Content and Enterprise Software. With a background in entrepreneurship and digital media, Garrou has successfully managed investments in various companies and serves as a board member for multiple organizations. Notable highlights of Garrou's career include his role as Managing Director at Mercury, where he has made impactful investments in startups and his position as an Adjunct Professor of Management at Rice University, showcasing his expertise in the field of venture capital and entrepreneurship.

Work Experience 

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Mercury

  • Managing Director

    2004 - Current

    Mercury is an early-stage venture capital firm. With over $600 million under management, Mercury focuses on software entrepreneurs and innovation originating in Middle America. Our investment themes target SaaS, Cloud, and Data Science/AI platforms that make the markets and industries of Middle America more competitive and efficient.

Mercury Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm.

mercuryfund.com
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Rice University

  • Adjunct Professor of Management, Rice Business

    2006

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Cart.com

  • Venture Investor & Board Member

    2021

Cart.com is a technology company that provides a unified commerce platform to help companies from discovery to delivery.

Raised $759,213,278.00 from BlackRock, Silicon Valley Bank and Trinity Capital.

cart.com
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Brassica Finance

  • Venture Investor & Board Member

    2023

Brassica is a financial technology company that develops an investment infrastructure for private securities and digital assets.

Raised $16,000,000.00 from Mercury, Armyn Capital, Neowiz, NGC Ventures, Alpha Asset Management, Broadhaven Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, VC3 DAO and Long Journey Ventures.

brassicafin.com
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Otto

  • Venture Investor & Board Member

    2019

Otto provides an integrated mobile app extension to existing veterinarian practice management systems.

Raised $50,000,000.00 from Boehringer Ingelheim, Mercury and Hill’s Pet Nutrition.

otto.vet
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Spruce

  • Venture Investor & Board Member

    2018

Spruce develops a platform that enables individuals to receive services in their homes through a mobile app.

Raised $40,600,000.00 from SoftBank, Fitz Gate Ventures, Seamless Capital, New Age Ventures, Mercury, Raven One Ventures and Sweat Equity Partners.

getspruce.com
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LISNR

  • Venture Investor & Board Member

    2014

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ShareThis

  • Venture Investor & Board Member

    2007

ShareThis has unlocked the power of global digital behavior by synthesizing social share, interest, and intent data since 2007

Raised $82,320,275.00 from Runway Growth Capital and DFJ Mercury.

sharethis.com
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Topl

  • Venture Investor

    2020

Topl is an impact technology economy that enables digital and sustainable transformation across value chains.

Raised $21,678,616.00 from Mercy Corps Ventures, Republic, Samara Asset Group, A100x Ventures and Mercury.

topl.co
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Amify

  • Venture Investor

    2018

Amify is the leading Amazon-as-a-Service platform. Amify helps brands optimize their presence, margins and sales on the Amazon Marketplace.

Raised $10,000,000.00 from SaaS Ventures, CincyTech and Mercury.

goamify.com

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