Alex Mendez
Managing Director @ Storm Ventures
Menlo Park, United States
Alex Mendez is a Managing Director at Storm Ventures.
- Total investments:
- 27
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
Last updated:
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Industries Alex Mendez invests in
Stages Alex Mendez invests in
Countries Alex Mendez invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 2 (7%)
- Software 2 (7%)
- Wireless 2 (7%)
- Web Hosting 2 (7%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (7%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (22%)
- Series B 6 (22%)
- Series C 6 (22%)
- Series D 2 (7%)
- Funding Round 2 (7%)
Country
- United States 9 (33%)
- Argentina 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Restorando
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Restorando is an operator of an online restaurant reservation platform used to improve dining out experiences. Its platform helps restaurants to develop new sales channels to promote available tables and increase revenue that enables consumers to efficiently make reservations online.Restorando was established in 2011 and is headquartered inBuenos Aires, Argentina. | Series B / Aug 16, 2013 | |
Rafter
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Rafter is an established course materials management company whose mission is to promote student success by making education accessible, affordable, and effective for all. Rafter is redesigning and transforming course materials management in higher education with its innovative textbooks-in-tuition solution, Rafter360. Rafter has helped hundreds ofcampuses and over 2.7 million students to save nearly $700 million on textbooks. Rafter, headquartered in San Mateo, CA, is a privately held company. To learn more visit www.rafter.com Rafter was formed from the rebranding of popular textbook rental service (and Chegg competitor) | Series D / Oct 01, 2012 | |
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Restorando
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Restorando is an operator of an online restaurant reservation platform used to improve dining out experiences. Its platform helps restaurants to develop new sales channels to promote available tables and increase revenue that enables consumers to efficiently make reservations online.Restorando was established in 2011 and is headquartered inBuenos Aires, Argentina. | $3.2M / Series A / Feb 22, 2012 | |
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Rafter
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Rafter is an established course materials management company whose mission is to promote student success by making education accessible, affordable, and effective for all. Rafter is redesigning and transforming course materials management in higher education with its innovative textbooks-in-tuition solution, Rafter360. Rafter has helped hundreds ofcampuses and over 2.7 million students to save nearly $700 million on textbooks. Rafter, headquartered in San Mateo, CA, is a privately held company. To learn more visit www.rafter.com Rafter was formed from the rebranding of popular textbook rental service (and Chegg competitor) | $20M / Series C / Feb 23, 2011 | |
Qumu
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Qumu is the leading provider of a best-in-class platform to create, manage, secure, distribute and measure the success of live and on demand video for the intelligent enterprise. | $8.8M / Post-IPO Debt / Sep 21, 2010 | |
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Rafter
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Rafter is an established course materials management company whose mission is to promote student success by making education accessible, affordable, and effective for all. Rafter is redesigning and transforming course materials management in higher education with its innovative textbooks-in-tuition solution, Rafter360. Rafter has helped hundreds ofcampuses and over 2.7 million students to save nearly $700 million on textbooks. Rafter, headquartered in San Mateo, CA, is a privately held company. To learn more visit www.rafter.com Rafter was formed from the rebranding of popular textbook rental service (and Chegg competitor) | $10M / Series B / Jun 03, 2010 | |
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Rafter
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Rafter is an established course materials management company whose mission is to promote student success by making education accessible, affordable, and effective for all. Rafter is redesigning and transforming course materials management in higher education with its innovative textbooks-in-tuition solution, Rafter360. Rafter has helped hundreds ofcampuses and over 2.7 million students to save nearly $700 million on textbooks. Rafter, headquartered in San Mateo, CA, is a privately held company. To learn more visit www.rafter.com Rafter was formed from the rebranding of popular textbook rental service (and Chegg competitor) | $6M / Series A / Nov 01, 2009 | |
Bivio Networks
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Bivio Networks is dedicated to providing leading networking products that enable government agencies and service providers to control, monitor, and secure critical network infrastructure. A leader in cyber intelligence, cybersecurity, and network control solutions, Bivio has deployed its products in a wide range of solutions. Bivio’s globalcustomer base includes leading intelligence agencies, military organizations, and service providers. Bivio is privately held and is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with office locations worldwide. Cyber Security, Cyber Intelligence, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) Networking Systems, Mass Metadata Extraction and Analysis, Data Retention System, Cyber Investigation, network probe | Dec 09, 2008 | |
3Leaf
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"The server virtualization solutions offered by 3Leaf Systems support key corporate data center initiatives such as improved power management, optimized scale-out architectures, and architectural support for on-demand computing initiatives."3Leaf's Virtual Compute Environment (VCE) architecture delivers system-levelvirtualization to enable mainframe-class capabilities for commodity servers. With 3Leaf Systems' server virtualization solutions, organizations can significantly reduce their investments in infrastructure and operations, and rapidly deploy and provision data center resources while ensuring their availability to meet the business requirements of today's applications. | Series C / Sep 22, 2008 | |
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Qumu
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Qumu is the leading provider of a best-in-class platform to create, manage, secure, distribute and measure the success of live and on demand video for the intelligent enterprise. | $10.7M / Post-IPO Equity / Jul 21, 2008 | |
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Co-Investors
About Storm Ventures
Storm Ventures is a $600m (TAM) VC firm 100% focused solely on early-stage enterprise investments. We've been founders ourselves, of enterprise companies including Airespace (acquired by Cisco) and EchoSign (acquired by Adobe). We've had to go without pay as CEOs ourselves to make payroll. We've gone from $0 to $100m in ARR andlived all the stages in between. We've here to help, and add some strategic capital and insights. And not be in the way when we're not needed.
Storm Ventures Contacts
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Pascale Diaine
Partner
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Alex Mendez
Managing Director
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Arun Penmetsa
Partner
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Jacco van der Kooij
Sales Architect/Mentor
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Kevin Melia
Chief Financial Officer
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FAQ
What does Alex Mendez invest in?
Alex Mendez invests primarily in Mobile, Software and Wireless startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Alex Mendez last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Alex Mendez closed in Aug 2013. Shizune tracks 27 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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