Our investment in Senso.ai, disrupting how banks view their customers by using AI-powered predictive insights.
Have you ever received an ad for a credit card you already have? Has your own bank tried to make […]
Innovation
2019 a year in review
It’s been an exciting year for Mendoza Ventures! In under one year, we have deployed $3.5M across six investments. Our
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Senofer Mendoza wins the National Association of Investment Companies rising star award in venture capital.
The National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) rising star award recognizes organizations, investment professionals and senior executives who have demonstrated
RISE Financial Technologies secures $3.5M of fresh funding to accelerate the engineering and delivery of a capital market infrastructure solution for both tokenized and traditionally regulated assets.
A highly experienced team enables innovative networked business models for regulated financial institutions based on distributed ledger technology; a $2.5b
Fintech Wallit and Trio head to Tech Crunch Disrupt
We are excited to announce that two Mendoza Ventures portfolio companies have been chosen to speak and present at Tech
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Doug Levin joins the Mendoza Ventures pre-seed fund as an advisor and investor
Boston MA — We are excited to announce that entrepreneur and investor Doug Levin has joined the Mendoza Ventures Pre-seed fund II
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Alyce Secures $11.5M in Series A Funding to Redefine Direct Mail, Swag and Gifts
AI-Powered Platform Offers Hyper-Personalized, Recipient-Focused Approach to Account Based Marketing at Scale, a First of Its Kind BOSTON-Alyce Inc. (“Alyce”),
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Payments are hard. I should know – An expert guide to the payments industry.
I get a lot (like at least 10–20 new ones a month) of pitches from FinTech startups who want to
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Raising 10M to solve the pre-seed funding gap problem in early stage startups.
We founded Mendoza Ventures in 2016 with this investment thesis: provide expertise and guidance along with investment capital to help grow early
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The State of Innovation Labs: Part 3 – How to build successful innovation in a large company (minus the lab)
Warning: Building innovation is difficult, it is not for the faint of heart, it is not going to be
The State of Innovation Labs: Part 2 – The Intrapreneur is Doomed to Fail
The new label for a company’s internal innovation advocate is called an “intrapreneur” (an internal entrepreneur). The intrapreneur is dedicated
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The State of Innovation Labs: Part 1 – Why innovation labs fail
This series of blog posts on the state of innovation labs was created with 3 years of collected interviews, conversations
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