# Lenny Mendonca

> Lenny Mendonca is a seed investor at McKinsey & Company backing Social Impact and News. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [McKinsey & Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mckinsey-company)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenny-mendonca-7b98b22a/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/lenny_mendonca

Lenny Mendonca is a seed investor at McKinsey & Company in San Francisco focused on Social Impact and News. Lenny Mendonca is the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California. He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw their knowledge development,Chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and the Firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired in from McKinsey in 2014. He was formerly the Chair of New America and Children Now, co-Chair of California Forward, and co-founder and Chair of Fusecorps. He was the Vice-Chair of Common Cause. He is the Chair Emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute, and was vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development. He served on the boards of Fidelity Charitable, Western Governors University, UC Merced, The Educational Results Partnership, The College Futures Foundation, California Competes, The Opportunity Institute, Commonwealth Club, National Association of NonPartisan Reformers, and The Guardian.org. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America, and the Advisory Boards of Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, Third Sector Capital, The CA Community College Chancellor's Office, and the Public Policy Institute of California. He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard.He lives on the Half Moon Bay coast with his wife, Christine. They raised their two daughters, Allie and Rebecca, there and are the founders and owners of the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company, The Inn at Mavericks and the Pacific Standard Taproom. He is also Chair and primary owner of the Coastside News Group (Half Moon Bay Review).

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $70k–$1.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Social Impact | 2 | 33% |
| News | 1 | 17% |
| Events | 1 | 17% |
| Travel | 1 | 17% |
| Banking | 1 | 17% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Locunity | Actionable local reporting and civic intelligence at scale with journalist-in-the-loop AI. | $225K | Pre-Seed | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| GoldenKey | Goldenkey (Formerly known as Solopro) revolutionizes the way people buy and sell homes. Through no commission model, Goldenkey leverages technology for on-demand real estate transactions. | $1.6M |  | Oct 22, 2015 |  |
| GoldenKey | Goldenkey (Formerly known as Solopro) revolutionizes the way people buy and sell homes. Through no commission model, Goldenkey leverages technology for on-demand real estate transactions. | $1.6M | Seed | Oct 22, 2015 |  |
| Aspiration | Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice. | $15.5M | Series A | Sep 17, 2015 |  |
| Owlized | Owlized provides location-based virtual reality solutions which help people connect deeply with the most visited destinations on Earth. OWL VR and our mobile mixed-reality tools help travelers experience cultural heritage while enabling citizens to visualize and influence the future of cities. | $470K | Seed | Sep 01, 2014 |  |
| ShoutAbout | ShoutAbout promotes meaningful opportunities to do something at the bottom of political coverage and commentary. | $70K | Seed | Dec 01, 2012 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1HMR, LLC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1hmr-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Capricorn Investment Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capricorn-investment-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Jerald and Melody Howe Weintraub Revocable Living Trust](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jerald-and-melody-howe-weintraub-revocable-living-trust) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mission and Market](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mission-and-market) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Moatable](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/renren-inc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Safe AI Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/safe-ai-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About McKinsey & Company

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm, the trusted advisor to the world's leading businesses, governments, and institutions. McKinsey & Company provides solutions for issues of concern to senior management in large corporations and organizations. It provides advisory services to the world's leadingbusinesses, governments, and institutions. It also provides industry practice solutions and functional practice solutions. Its industry practice solutions include advanced electronics, chemicals, metal and mining, electrical power, consumer goods, and more. Its functional practice solutions include business technology, corporate finance and sales, operations, and other related areas. McKinsey & Company was established in 1926 and is based in London, United Kingdom. It operates additional offices on each continent. When James O. McKinsey founded McKinsey in 1926, he could not have imagined the reach his small firm would eventually have. Eighty-seven years later, the firm has grown into a global partnership serving two-thirds of the Fortune 1000.

5 contacts available at McKinsey & Company.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aaron Bawcom | Sr. Solution Leader and Associate Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-bawcom |
| Angela Spatharou | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angela-spatharou |
| Benedikt Kolbinger | Associate Consultant | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benedikt-kolbinger |
| Gordon Cairns | Member of the Advisory Board | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gordon-cairns |
| Jorge Azevedo | Senior Expert | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jorge-azevedo |

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## FAQ

### What does Lenny Mendonca invest in?

Lenny Mendonca invests primarily in Social Impact, News and Events startups, most often at Seed and Pre-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.

### What is Lenny Mendonca's check size?

Lenny Mendonca typically joins rounds of $70k–$1.6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lenny Mendonca participates in.

### When did Lenny Mendonca last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lenny Mendonca 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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