# Frank Mendicino III

> Frank Mendicino III is a Series C investor at Access Venture Partners backing SMS. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Access Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/access-venture-partners)
- Location: Westminster, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Nov 2021
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankmendicino

Frank Mendicino III is a Series C investor at Access Venture Partners in Westminster focused on SMS and VoIP. Frank Mendicino III co-founded Access Venture Partners in 1999. Access is a seed and early stage, high technology venture capital fund. Frank has been a venture capitalist for 18 years successfully investing in, and helping to grow exciting businesses.Through his work with early stage companies, Frank has built a large network of deal referralsources and value added resources for portfolio companies. Frank was a founding board member of The Contra Costa County Incubator in San Francisco. He is a former board member of the Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association. Frank has a deep understanding of product development and sales and marketing processes which allows him to help entrepreneurial management teams accelerate the growth of the companies in which Access Venture Partners invests.Prior to co-founding Access Venture Partners, Frank worked for Woodside Fund, a Silicon Valley venture fund, for 10 years where he helped build and exit a successful portfolio of 29 early stage companies.Frank is on the Board of Directors of several private companies. He received his B.A. degree in Political Science from The University of California at Berkeley in 1989. Frank lives in Louisville, Colorado, and in his spare time, he enjoys playing golf and spending time with his family.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SMS | 1 | 17% |
| VoIP | 1 | 17% |
| Sales | 1 | 17% |
| Software | 1 | 17% |
| Analytics | 1 | 17% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 2 | 33% |
| Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |
| Series E | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TextUs | TextUs™ is the only business-class text messaging platform built specifically for inside sales, recruiting and customer service teams. TextUs is dramatically changing how professionals communicate with their customers, candidates and opportunities. With eight times the response rate of traditional communication channels, TextUs empowers businessteams to sell smarter and faster. | $22M | Series C | Nov 30, 2021 |  |
| Resurface Labs | Resurface makes every user API calls a durable transaction for troubleshooting, remediation, and rich data sets. | $2M | Seed | Oct 21, 2020 |  |
| LogRhythm | LogRhythm is a world leader in NextGen SIEM, empowering thousands of enterprises on six continents to successfully reduce cyber and operational risk by rapidly detecting, responding to, and neutralizing damaging cyberthreats. The LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform combines advanced security analytics; user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA); networkdetection and response (NDR); and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) in a single end-to-end solution. LogRhythm’s technology serves as the foundation for the world’s most modern enterprise security operations centers (SOCs), helping customers measurably secure their cloud, physical, and virtual infrastructures for both IT and OT environments. Built for security professionals by security professionals, the LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform has won a countless customer and industry accolades. |  | Series E | Jul 22, 2014 |  |
| LogRhythm | LogRhythm is a world leader in NextGen SIEM, empowering thousands of enterprises on six continents to successfully reduce cyber and operational risk by rapidly detecting, responding to, and neutralizing damaging cyberthreats. The LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform combines advanced security analytics; user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA); networkdetection and response (NDR); and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) in a single end-to-end solution. LogRhythm’s technology serves as the foundation for the world’s most modern enterprise security operations centers (SOCs), helping customers measurably secure their cloud, physical, and virtual infrastructures for both IT and OT environments. Built for security professionals by security professionals, the LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform has won a countless customer and industry accolades. |  | Series C | Mar 30, 2011 |  |
| LogRhythm | LogRhythm is a world leader in NextGen SIEM, empowering thousands of enterprises on six continents to successfully reduce cyber and operational risk by rapidly detecting, responding to, and neutralizing damaging cyberthreats. The LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform combines advanced security analytics; user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA); networkdetection and response (NDR); and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) in a single end-to-end solution. LogRhythm’s technology serves as the foundation for the world’s most modern enterprise security operations centers (SOCs), helping customers measurably secure their cloud, physical, and virtual infrastructures for both IT and OT environments. Built for security professionals by security professionals, the LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform has won a countless customer and industry accolades. | $3.1M | Series B | Apr 01, 2009 |  |
| LogRhythm | LogRhythm is a world leader in NextGen SIEM, empowering thousands of enterprises on six continents to successfully reduce cyber and operational risk by rapidly detecting, responding to, and neutralizing damaging cyberthreats. The LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform combines advanced security analytics; user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA); networkdetection and response (NDR); and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) in a single end-to-end solution. LogRhythm’s technology serves as the foundation for the world’s most modern enterprise security operations centers (SOCs), helping customers measurably secure their cloud, physical, and virtual infrastructures for both IT and OT environments. Built for security professionals by security professionals, the LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform has won a countless customer and industry accolades. | $3.3M | Series A | Nov 18, 2007 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Adams Street Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adams-street-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Eastside Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eastside-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [High Country Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-country-venture) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alerion Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alerion-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Croghan Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/croghan-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FirstMile Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstmile-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Access Venture Partners

VC Fund · Westminster, United States

Access Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in fiercely passionate founders leading visionary, early-stage technology companies. We seek to add significant value beyond simply the capital invested and throw our resources, decades of operating & investing expertise, broad networks, and every ounce of our emotional energy behind ourfounders' success. We actively help our portcos build and recruit teams, fundraise, develop business strategy, and advance to an exit. We typically make our initial investment as part of the first institutional round and we often continue investing in subsequent rounds. Access was founded in 1999 by

5 contacts available at Access Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Wallace | Managing Director | — |
| Elyse Kent | Head of Platform and Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elyse-kent |
| Frank Mendicino III | Co-Founder & Emeritus Partner | — |
| Frank Mendicino III | Co-Founder & Emeritus Partner | — |
| Jay Campion | Previous Founder and Managing Director | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Frank Mendicino III invest in?

Frank Mendicino III invests primarily in SMS, VoIP and Sales startups, most often at Series C and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Frank Mendicino III last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Frank Mendicino III closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 6 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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