# Mauricio Alvarez

> Mauricio Alvarez is a seed investor at NextStage backing Photography. See 1 investment, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NextStage](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aurel-nextstage)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jan 2010
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alvarezm

Mauricio Alvarez is a seed investor at NextStage in San Francisco focused on Photography and Photo Sharing. Co-Founder & CTO. Mauricio has a track record of identifying business opportunities and building technology solutions to exploit them. Mauricio most recently co-founded a photo sharing and social media company where he was CTO.Previously Mr. Alvarez was Deputy CTO at BEA Systems (now part of Oracle) during which time the company integratedits line of products into a comprehensive platform solution and streamlined its sales process, resulting in revenues over $1B. He also served as Senior Director of Strategic Alliances where he instrumented critical acquisitions in the infrastructure and security areas. As Senior Director of Engineering, Mr. Alvarez was responsible for the consolidation of the engineering team and products of the eCA division.Mr. Alvarez joined BEA in connection with its merger with The Theory Center, a provider of component-based software that he co-founded and where he served as Vice President of Engineering.Mr. Alvarez received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and a M.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University.Mauricio is currently reading Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand and loves reading The Fox with Sox to his three incredible kids.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Photography | 1 | 100% |
| Photo Sharing | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ZangZing | ZangZing is building a new group photo sharing service. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 01, 2010 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About NextStage

VC Fund · Paris, France

NextStage is a private equity fund manager (venture capital funds (“FCPR”), local investment funds (“FIP”) and innovation investment funds (“FCPI”)) certified by the AutoritÃ:copyright: des MarchÃ:copyright:s Financiers. As committed investors, they provide private equity capital to support the growth of Champion SMEs in France andelsewhere in Europe.

5 contacts available at NextStage.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aloys de Fontaines | Investment Director & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aloys-de-fontaines |
| Arthur Vigneras | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arthur-vigneras |
| Craig Vachon | Senior Partner - Head of US Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-vachon |
| Hervé de Beublain | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/herv-de-beublain |
| Jean-David Haas | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-david-haas |

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## FAQ

### What does Mauricio Alvarez invest in?

Mauricio Alvarez invests primarily in Photography and Photo Sharing startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 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 Mauricio Alvarez last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mauricio Alvarez closed in Jan 2010. Shizune tracks 1 investment 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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