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Mercato Partners portfolio

Mercato Partners has 1 portfolio company on record at Recent Funding. It is a growth equity firm based in Cottonwood Heights, US, founded in 2007. It led 1 of the 2 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Lambda's $320M Series B+ round in February 2024, alongside Veligera Capital, US Innovative Technology Fund, T. Rowe Price and 6 others. That company is in AI infrastructure and compute. It has co-invested with Gradient Ventures, Crescent Cove Advisors and T. Rowe Price, most often Gradient Ventures (2 rounds).

Type: Growth equity.
Portfolio on Recent Funding: 1.
Deals, last 12 months: 0.
Rounds led: 1 of 2.
Capital in their rounds: $364M.
Latest deal: Lambda · Feb 15, 2024.

About Mercato Partners

Firm type: Growth equity.
Headquarters: Cottonwood Heights, US.
Founded: 2007.
Stages: Growth, Late Stage.
Sectors: AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Healthtech, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
Leads rounds: Yes.
Portfolio companies: 41.
Exits: 4.
Rounds led: 3.

Fund returns

FundVintageSizeNet IRRTVPIDPIAs of
Mercato Partners Growth III, L.P.2015—9.5%1.84x0.18xDec 31, 2025
Mercato Co-Investment2013—-92.9%0.08x0.08xSep 30, 2025

Net returns as reported by the public-pension and foundation LPs invested in each fund.

Firm profile and fund returns: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-09, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Funds raised

FundFund #SizeAnnounced
MMercato Partners
Salt Lake City
II$115Mvia Shai Goldman's fund list

Venture funds Mercato Partners raised, from the list of new VC funds compiled by Shai Goldman (Brex). Each size links to the article that states it, or to that list where no article was found. All new funds: new VC funds.

What Mercato Partners invests in

How Mercato Partners invests

StageDealsCapital in rounds
Series B+ 2 100%$364M
YearDealsCapital in rounds
2023 1 50%$44M
2024 1 50%$320M

Share is of the 2 rounds on Recent Funding that name Mercato Partners. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Mercato Partners portfolio companies

CompanyRound with Mercato PartnersTotal raisedLatest raise
LLambda
AI infrastructure and compute
Series B+ · $320M$859MNov 18, 2025
Series B+

Most frequent co-investors

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Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (AI infrastructure and compute).

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Mercato Partners, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/mercato-partners (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.

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