Less than two weeks until our all-female media x AI #hackathon with Hugging Face, ElevenLabs, Canva and The Tech Bros 👏 Women remain underrepresented in building the tools shaping the future of media and technology. This event is designed to address that through real creation - rapid prototyping, bold ideas and direct feedback 🧠 It’s not about theory. It’s about giving technical women the room to create with full ambition. 🔗 APPLY HERE: https://luma.com/fvh5vk2i If you know someone who should be there, pass it on. 🚀
Mercuri
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
London, England 3,399 followers
Mercuri lead seed stage funding rounds for UK companies at the intersection of the media and technology sectors
About us
Mercuri is the UK media and entertainment technology venture capital fund. It supports exceptional founders building technology enabled products for the new age of enterprise and the digital lifestyle of consumers in the UK. Mercuri lead funding rounds for start-ups that are impacting the rapidly evolving ecosystem at the intersection of technology, media and entertainment. Mercuri’s second fund, but first multi-LP fund, will focus investment into four specific areas - the creation, distribution, consumption, and monetisation of content and data. Investment targets B2B startups set to enhance the way in which we communicate and engage in a professional and personal context. The fund aims to make six new investments a year. Mercuri is a certified B Corp and the co-founder of VentureESG, and invests in portfolio companies that share its values through a commitment to robust data policies and safe, transparent AI. We are actively deploying our second fund: [email protected] Our current portfolio can be found at www.mercuri.vc/portfolio
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https://www.mercuri.vc/
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- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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- 2-10 employees
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- London, England
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- Privately Held
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- 2017
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- Venture capital, Pre-seed, Seed, Media, Technology, Early stage investments, Corporate development, Responsible technology, VC, Investing, startups, GenAI, Tech, Private equity, MediaTech, Deeptech, Creator Economy, E-sports, CreativeTech, Communities, Gaming, MusicTech, PrivacyTech, and EdTech
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Sharing the announcement of the release of Faculty Frontier™ 3 Frontier 3 is a powerful decision intelligence platform built on their decade of experience in deploying AI in the real world. Frontier 3 helps organisations: • Observe what’s actually happening across data and models • Understand the trade-offs between different decisions • Decide with clarity on optimal strategies • Act by pushing decisions into workflows and closing the feedback loop 👉 Check out the video from Andrew Brookes (CTO & co-founder) and link below for full details
Announcing the release of Faculty Frontier™ 3, the most powerful version yet of our Decision Intelligence Platform. Frontier 3 connects enterprise data, models, and agents into a coherent simulation of business processes and decision flows - transforming how organisations extract measurable value from AI investment. 🎥 Hear from our CTO & Co-Founder, Andrew Brookes, as he shares the vision behind Frontier 3 and what’s new - including the launch of our embedded AI Decision Agent (ADA), and a specialist agent for clinical trials. 👉 Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eNdnjHri #DecisionIntelligence #EnterpriseAI #AIAgents #LifeSciences #FacultyFrontier
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Brilliant to see Closing The Intent Gap published - a thoughtful take on understanding customer intent through real behaviour. Congratulations to David Mannheim, Ryan J. and the Made With Intent team for bringing this to life 📰 Read Closing The Intent Gap here: https://lnkd.in/evCTHPCw
"We named the problem, so now we have to solve it." The Intent Gap. It's what we call the disconnect between what online shoppers need and the experience they often get. It is one of eCommerce's biggest challenges. One of the largest limiters to growth, and to customer experience. We literally wrote the book on it. And now we're back with the solution-focused sequel. Inside our new playbook, Closing The Intent Gap, you will find everything you need to know to do something about this opportunity. ✖️ A framework for understanding intent ✖️ Intent-based growth stories from real brands ✖️ Insights from an analysis of 50 million eCommerce sessions Get your copy, and even snag one of the last print editions, here: https://lnkd.in/evCTHPCw
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The Mercuri team is heading to Paris for the Unlock VC Summit! 🇫🇷 We’re excited to take part in this year’s conversations shaping the future of venture and AI. 🎙️ Anna Jones (Investment Committee Chair) and Isabelle O'Keeffe (Venture Partner) will join the panel “Beyond Words: How AI Is Redefining Communication, Creativity, and Connection” alongside Evelyn Rusli, Katie Jacobs Stanton, and Sally Shin - exploring how generative AI is transforming the way we communicate, create, and connect. 💬 Ella Hughes will also be attending the summit, joining a number of sessions and roundtables across the three days. At Mercuri, we invest at the intersection of AI, creativity, and generative media, backing the next generation of founders building in this space. We’re always keen to connect with other GPs, LPs, and founders in Paris - come say hello over a coffee and a croissant ☕ 🥐 A big thank-you to Sophie Winwood and the unlock VC (previously WVC:E) VC team for curating such a brilliant event. There is still time to grab a last minute ticket, see link in comments below.
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It was a pleasure to host the Mercuri networking drinks last night with over 80 funds. A big thank you to everyone who attended, it was a great couple of hours reconnecting with familiar faces and meeting new ones. Looking forward to the next one! #VentureCapital #Networking #VCCommunity
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🚨 404: media not found 🚨 We're teaming up The Tech Bros, Canva, ElevenLabs, and Hugging Face for an all female media x tech #hackathon at the Canva offices 👩🏾💻👩🏼💻👩🏻💻 ⚡ Build prototypes fast ⚡ Get feedback from engineers & investors ⚡ Meet your co-founder!? Hugging Face, Canva and ElevenLabs are unicorns shaping the future of media and creative tech. At Mercuri, we bring the early-stage VC perspective, meeting thousands of startups each year at the intersection of media, entertainment and technology. This hackathon brings it all together, creating a space to test bold ideas and learn directly from operators and investors immersed in the field. The media x creative tech world needs fresh voices and bold ideas. When women lead, products get sharper, narratives more inclusive, and impact much greater - so come join us! 📍 Central London 📅 Wednesday, 29 October 🔗 Link to sign up in comments
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📣 New Investment: Unbox We’re pleased to announce our lead investment in Unbox, building the infrastructure for a more transparent, accountable, and effective social commerce economy. Founded by Hugo Soul and Michael Coombs (who bring experience from TikTok/TikTok Shop, Google, and Deliveroo), Unbox is tackling the broken incentives at the heart of influencer and affiliate marketing. Their platform delivers real‑time transparency, better alignment between creators, brands, and platforms, and measurable outcomes in a space long overdue for change. 🚀 Why we invested: - A bold mission to fix one of digital commerce’s fastest‑growing but most inefficient sectors - A technically strong platform that rewires how value flows between creators, brands, and platforms A founding team with deep product, growth, and commercial experience in scaling global platforms - A massive and rapidly expanding market opportunity at the intersection of content, commerce, and culture For us, Unbox represents the evolution of MediaTech, not just reshaping how media is consumed, but how it drives trusted, transparent commercial relationships in the creator economy. We’re thrilled to be leading this round and partnering with Love Ventures, Notion Capital and the Unbox team as they redefine the future of social commerce. 👉 Learn more: www.unbox-commerce.com 👉 Sky News press release: https://lnkd.in/eASXYwVN #CreatorEconomy #SocialCommerce #InfluencerMarketing #UKstartup #MediaTech
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Early stage founders get your applications in for Onstage (prev. Focal) ✅ Isabelle O'Keeffe and Ella Hughes are joining from our team alongside 350 other VC funds. See post below for the link to apply 👇 #DemoDay #Startups #VentureCapital #Fundraising #EuropeTech #Seed #SeriesA
Applications for the Onstage (prev. Focal) W25 Demo Day close in one day 🚨 It takes 7 minutes to apply, and even those who don’t make it to demo day can get introductions to over 350 leading VC fund partners, including Mercuri. If you're an early stage founder looking to fundraise in the next 6 months, Onstage is THE most efficient way to get your startup in front of hundreds of top VCs. Even those that don’t make it to pitch can get introductions to their VC partners. Last time, applicants received over 2,000 VC introduction requests. Fill out a ten minute application, and find out if you're successful within three weeks. And, for the first time, those that make it to Demo Day pitch live in front of over 200 VCs in Soho, London. Link to apply is here: https://lnkd.in/eYJY4cBT
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A monumental moment for Signal AI today, announcing a $165m investment from Battery Ventures 🚀 We are proud to have been on the journey since 2018 as one of Signal’s earliest investors and Alan was delighted to join David Benigson and the rest of the team at the London Stock Exchange this morning to see them ring the opening bell, a fitting recognition of everything they have achieved Congratulations once again to all the team at Signal 👏
That's a wrap on such a momentous day, announcing our $165M investment from Battery Ventures and ringing the opening bell at the London Stock Exchange. 🎉 In a special moment, some of our longest-tenured Signallers, leadership team, and Board have also been written into London Stock Exchange history, as they had the opportunity to sign the event book. ✍ Thank you again to our customers, existing investors at Highland Europe, MMC Ventures, and Mercuri, and the entire Signal AI team for contributing to this success. 🥂 Let the next chapter begin!
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AI is transforming industries from media to enterprise. But as this Faculty article from its Head of Product Tom Oliver highlights, speed of innovation must be matched by frameworks for alignment and responsible deployment. Exactly the kind of thinking we believe underpins sustainable success in AI. Read the full blog post here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eNqvxp_X
💡 AI technologies could turn out to be the most powerful ever developed. But who decides their future? Our latest blog, authored by our Head of Product Tom Oliver, discusses the ‘AI alignment problem’. The challenge of ensuring that powerful AI systems pursue goals aligned with human values and intentions. Tom also suggests how we could progress a more ‘balanced’ approach going forward, taking into account the transformative technology of AI. Read the full blog here: https://lnkd.in/eNqvxp_X