Mendoza Ventures

What is Mendoza Ventures?

Mendoza Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm specializing in minority investments across various stages including seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage ventures. They focus on technology sectors such as Software, AI, Big Data, Cybersecurity, Fintech, and more.

With an assets under management amount of $25 million, they support companies engaged in Web Marketplaces, SaaS, Business Solutions, Retail, E-commerce, Sales, Marketing, Entertainment, Sports, CleanTech, HealthTech, Fitness, Blockchain, Cryptos, Web Security, Privacy, Analytics, Cloud Services, Infrastructure, Future Of Work, Food & Beverage, Logistics, Distribution, Payments, Healthcare, Wellness, and Consumer sectors.

Mendoza Ventures has a strong emphasis on diversity, with a portfolio consisting of startups led predominantly by immigrants, people of color, and women. They seek to invest in firms that have reached certain milestones, including having a Minimum Viable Product, some initial funding from friends and family, and at least one paying customer.

Preferring Latinx and Women-led companies, they strive to identify opportunities for innovation, modernization, and disruption primarily in the financial services, insurance, manufacturing, and dual-use companies. The fund typically invests between $100,000 and $5,000,000 with a sweet spot of around $1,500,000 in their chosen ventures.

Their specialties include Early, Seed, Later, Series A, and Pre-seed financing rounds. Mendoza Ventures aims to keep a small, targeted portfolio of 12-15 companies to maintain active, hands-on engagement, providing support and guidance to foster success.

Led by founders Adrian and Senofer Mendoza, the firm operates with an approach that focuses on partnership and industry expertise to catalyze growth in their endeavors.

What they say:

Mendoza Ventures is an early and growth stage Fintech, AI, and Cybersecurity venture fund that provides an actively managed approach to VC. We invest in companies with early revenue, a clear value proposition and using a proven due diligence model. We focus on diversity as playing an important role in our decisions.

What we look for: We invest in growth stage (series A and above) Fintech, AI, and Cybersecurity. Must have MVP, Friends and family raised, and first paying customer. Diverse teams wanted :)

How we help: Diverse checks, meaningful proactive support, an actual phone call back, even on the bad days.