Christy Cardenas

Christy Cardenas is a Venture Advisor at Mercury Fund. Christy has also worked as a managing partner at Ecliptic Capital, LLC, and as a partner at Grit Ventures. Christy has over 10 years of experience in the venture capital industry.

Christy has a deep understanding of the traits that make for successful founding teams. Christy uses their operational expertise to help portfolio companies scale value creation and meet market demands. Christy believes that technologically sophisticated methods are crucial to fully tap into the information firehose created by globally interconnected startup ecosystems.

Christy's ultimate goal is to democratize the venture capital industry and empower entrepreneurship by increasing transparency between founders and the investor community.

Christy Cardenas has a Master of Accounting from the Texas McCombs School of Business and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the same school. Christy also has a certification from DataCamp in Intermediate R, Introduction to Tidyverse, Introduction to Python, and Introduction to R. Finally, they are a Certified Public Accountant from the State of Colorado.