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Mercuri
Venture capital · London, United Kingdom · Europe
Mercuri is an early-stage venture capital fund that leads pre-seed and seed rounds for UK media technology and AI companies. It takes board seats and works with founders on hiring, follow-on fundraising and introductions.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software
In its own wordsmediaentertainmentaigenerative aicreator economygaming
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Or find every investor that fitsMercuri lists 56 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 8 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (26%), Enterprise Software (16%) and Media & Entertainment (15%). 59% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside Founders Factory, LocalGlobe and Betaworks.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Mercuri, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Mercuri's whole history. Rounds on record name 7 companies; its own site lists 56. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 67% |
| Series A | 33% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 4 | 2 |
| '26 | 4 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 86th | 55 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 67% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 83th | 13% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 37th | 26% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 26% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 16% | 8% |
| Media & Entertainment | 15% | 4% |
| Education | 7% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 5% | 4% |
| Human Resources | 4% | 1% |
| Gaming | 4% | 1% |
| Fintech | 3% | 12% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Founders Factory | 14 |
| LocalGlobe | 5 |
| Betaworks | 4 |
| 1745 Ventures | 3 |
| Y Combinator | 3 |
| Astir Ventures | 2 |
| Balderton Capital | 2 |
| EWOR | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5496%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company24%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Founders Factory
Compare Mercuri head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Mercuri| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 11 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 11 Feb 2026 | Series A | |
| 11 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 24 Sept 2025 | Round | |
| 7 Aug 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 28 May 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Mercuri
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Mercuri's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
56 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alegra provides services for businesses | Enterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Amble was an experiment in language learning that offered a personalized and immersive format for learning languages like French, Spanish, and Italian. | Education | Portfolio page | ||
| The company delivers customized, data-driven, dynamic ads on the world's largest audio platforms. | Media & EntertainmentAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Axio is a personalized learning platform for colleges and universities. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Black Ballad is a UK based lifestyle platform that seeks to tell the human experience through eyes of black British women. | Media & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Byway creates custom trips for slow travel by land and sea | Legal & ComplianceConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Chatterbox provides corporate language training powered by native language coaches | EducationHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Decoded trains leaders and teams to unlock the power of data and AI, building the skills and confidence to apply learning from day one and deliver measurable impact. | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides synthetic audiences for enterprise research | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2026Series A · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Ergodic builds a working model of how a business operation behaves to test consequential decisions against it | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Faculty provides AI services to various industries, including energy, finance, and healthcare. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Fanbytes is now part of Brainlabs, providing paid media, data science and creative services across all digital marketing platforms. | Media & EntertainmentEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Feedr provides corporate catering services. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Flourish creates interactive data visualization tools | EducationMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Fluidstack builds and deploys compute infrastructure, including data centers and solar power, to support artificial intelligence and other technologies. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world’s leading companies | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Geometric builds systems that discover better ways to run open models and provides an inference API | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Gibran builds intelligence that unlocks causal knowledge and augments human autonomy | AI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Yabal provides live music performances as 3D characters in a shared virtual world | Enterprise SoftwareEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
Media & EntertainmentAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 13 Nov 2026- Site
- mercuri.vc
- Last read
- 13 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 28 May 2025
- Companies checked
- 56
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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