# Frank Mendicino III

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

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Access Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/access-venture-partners)
- Location: Westminster, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/frankmendicino

Frank Mendicino III is a seed investor at Access Venture Partners in Westminster focused on Software and SMS. 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| SMS | 1 | 17% |
| VoIP | 1 | 17% |
| Sales | 1 | 17% |
| EdTech | 1 | 17% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 83% |
| Series C | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ZioSec | ZioSec is at the forefront of innovation in cybersecurity, creating Zio, an ethical AI hacker designed to empower cybersecurity professionals, such as penetration testers. Zio utilizes cutting-edge artificial intelligence to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in web applications and critical infrastructure. By automating and enhancing securityassessments, Zio enables security teams to respond faster and more effectively to potential threats, ultimately contributing to a safer and more secure digital world. | $2.1M | Seed | Jul 19, 2025 |  |
| Hydden | Hydden is the standard for continuous discovery, bridging the gaps between siloed security teams and technologies. Rather than replacing your existing solutions, Hydden accelerates your IAM implementations by building a single data layer across your identity technology stack that provides total visibility into every identity and continuously takesaction to reduce your attack surface. It automatically maps human and non-human accounts to managed identities, continuously analyzes access rights to enforce least privilege, and maintains strong identity hygiene to proactively remediate risks automatically. | $4.4M | Seed | Sep 17, 2024 |  |
| RADICL Defense | We secure small and medium sized businesses from nation state level cyberthreats. | $12.2M | Seed | Nov 14, 2023 |  |
| The Regis Company | The Regis Company is on a mission to grow great thinkers through the power of technology and the wisdom of neuroscience. Our global customers regard us as their go-to experiential design resource and the industry’s best builder of diverse and immersive learning simulations. | $3.5M | Seed | Sep 11, 2023 |  |
| 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 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Eastside Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eastside-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FirstMile Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstmile-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Lockstep Ventures — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Service Provider Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/service-provider-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alerion Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alerion-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- DA 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 | — |
| 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 Software, SMS and VoIP startups, most often at Seed and Series C 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 Jul 2025. 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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