Boston MA — We are excited to announce that entrepreneur and investor Doug Levin has joined the Mendoza Ventures Pre-seed fund II as an advisor and investor. Doug brings over 30 years of experience in cybersecurity, open source, and cutting edge technology that will be accessible to our current and future portfolio companies. Doug’s contribution to the Boston technology ecosystem is immeasurable, and his expertise is an asset to our early stage startups and founders.
Doug joins as part of a new cohort of talented individual investors and family offices that have joined as LP’s for Mendoza Ventures’ Pre-seed fund’s June close.
“The Mendoza Ventures team has a unique approach to early stage investing that works well with my own hands-on investing style,” said Doug Levin “With their fintech experience they are a clear differentiator in the early stage startup community”.
“I am very excited to have Doug as part of our VC family” said Mendoza Ventures Founder and General Partner, Adrian Mendoza. “Having worked with Doug as an entrepreneur, I am honored to now work with Doug as an investor. Our portfolio companies and our fund will benefit from Doug’s talent and experience!”
About Doug Levin
Doug Levin has over 30 years of successful experience as a business leader, technologist, and serial entrepreneur. As the founder and first CEO of Black Duck Software, he built a company that solved the challenges of safely using open source code in commercial products. (Black Duck was acquired bySynopsys in 2017.) Levin also founded or co-founded six other companies and he holds four software patents. He presently serves as COO for DJ MicroLaminates, an advanced materials manufacturer and as a Board member for the cybersecurity firm ReversingLabs. He is an Executive-in-Residence (EIR) at the Harvard Business School and mentor for the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund. He serves as a senior advisor to Carbon Relay,Prescient Devices, Wabbi, ZyloTech and several other companies. Earlier in his career, Doug held senior management positions at Microsoft over a nine-year period. He has an advanced degree in International Economics from the Collège d’Europe in Bruges, Belgium and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
About the Mendoza Ventures Pre-seed Fund II
Mendoza Ventures was founded in 2016 with this investment thesis — provide expertise and guidance along with investment capital to grow the early stage startup, and in return grow our investment. With our second fund ($20M), we are investing in 15 pre-seed and seed Fintech, AI, and Cybersecurity startups. We look for companies with a first product, first customer, and those raising a pre-seed or seed round.
