Samantha Lewis
Investor at Mercury
Samantha Lewis
Investor at Mercury
Houston, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Principal
2020 - 2023
Sourcing new early-stage investments by nurturing strong relationships with founders and the broader venture capital community. Leading investments in key thematic areas and serving on portfolio companies Board of Directors. Assisting in all aspects of due diligence, including detailed customer and management references, market sizing and mapping, financial modeling and industry research. Researching thematic areas for investment and collaborating with the partners to push fund thinking in thesis areas. Creating and driving internal processes to efficiently deploy capital and maximize ROI.
Mercury Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm.
Executive Chair
2023
Board Member
2019
Topl is a blockchain startup focused on monetizing ethical and sustainable practices through transparent and immutable supply chain tracking. Their platform was developed to verify, trace, and monetize quantifiable impact outcomes and enable innovative financing mechanisms for sustainable, inclusive ventures.
Board Member
2022
Civitech is a political technology startup devoted to applying technology-based solutions to civic problems.
Raised $23,118,113.00 from Applied Real Intelligence (A.R.I.) and Spring St. Group.
Board Member
2021
All-in-one grocery planning, inventory & cooking app
Raised $2,925,309.00 from RevTech Ventures.
Investor
2021
Zirtue is a relationship-based lending application that simplifies and automates loans between friends, family and trusted relationships.
Raised $4,100,000.00 from Techstars, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Inclusive Ventures Lab, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, SixThirty, Google for Startups and Capital Factory.
Fellow
2022
The world's premier venture capital fellowship program.
Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows
Board Observer
2023 - 2024
Brassica is a fintech infrastructure company laying the groundwork for the rise of alternative and digital assets. (Acquiried by Bitgo)
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.
Advisory Council Member
2021 - 2024
Startups Committee Chair
2022 - 2023
VC3 is building a new investment model for professional venture capital based on the principles of decentralization. We bring together a vetted network of experienced VCs, starting with Kauffman Fellows, to collaborate through a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) structure. As a Web3 native investment DAO, we provide token rewards to all stakeholders, with NFT-gated access and governance based on membership type.
Board of Directors Observer
2019 - 2020
Syzygy is a technology company developing a new type of photocatalytic chemical reactor to revolutionize the industrial gas, chemical, and energy industries. This reactor will reduce both cost and emissions for major commodity chemicals. Syzygy's reactor is powered by light instead of heat from burning fuel so the reactor is able to reduce both cost and carbon emissions for the products that are created. Syzygy's first product will be a distributed hydrogen production system for small-scale hydrogen consumers. Examples of these consumers include manufacturers of semi-conductors, LED’s, float glass, food oil, metal, and users of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles.
Syzygy Plasmonics is a developer of a photocatalytic reactor designed for fuel cell vehicles and small-scale industrial applications.
Raised $105,985,436.00 from Zeon Ventures.