Aziz Gilani

General Partner at Mercury Fund

Speaker

Aziz Gilani is a General Partner at Mercury Fund, an early-stage venture capital firm with more than $750 million under management that backs software companies across Texas and the Central U.S. He focuses on enterprise SaaS, cybersecurity, data, and AI, and works with portfolio companies including Liquibase, Graylog, Blumira, careviso, RepeatMD, Trava Security, and Vescent. Aziz also serves on the Board of the National Venture Capital Association.

Before Mercury, Aziz held consulting roles at Infosys Consulting and Capgemini Ernst & Young and was an early executive at ABB Performance Services. He lectures on entrepreneurial finance at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business. Aziz served on the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship and received the NVCA’s 2021 Service Award for his policy work. He holds a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, and is a Kauffman Fellow.