Mendoza Ventures
VC Fund
Boston, United States
Mendoza Ventures is an early and growth stage Fintech, AI, and Cybersecurity venture fund that provides an actively managed approach to VC.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 73%
- Fund size:
- $100M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Mendoza Ventures invests in
Stages Mendoza Ventures invests in
Countries Mendoza Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.8M–$4M
- Series A
- $9.9M–$15M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 7 (47%)
- Financial Services 6 (40%)
- Software 5 (33%)
- SaaS 4 (27%)
- Information Technology 4 (27%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (47%)
- Series A 2 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (13%)
- Funding Round 1 (7%)
- Convertible Note 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 9 (60%)
- Canada 1 (7%)
- Germany 1 (7%)
- United Kingdom 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Adam Kerr
Senior Partner
|
Senior Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Lee Woolley
Limited Partner
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Limited Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Scott Heyes
CFO
|
CFO | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Adrian Mendoza
Founder, General Partner, Managing Partner & Investor
|
Founder, General Partner, Managing Partner & Investor | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Cordell Carter
Limited Partner
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Limited Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| FiVerity helps bank and credit union communities collaborate to prevent fraud and improve operational efficiency through secure, shared intelligence. Our Anti-Fraud Collaboration Platform enables financial institutions to connect internal teams and external partners—such as peer institutions, industry associations, and law enforcement—throughreal-time data sharing, enriched investigations, and streamlined regulatory workflows.By eliminating information silos and empowering proactive fraud defense, FiVerity transforms fragmented detection and reporting processes into coordinated, community-driven responses. Our embedded, no-integration-required solution delivers immediate value by aggregating alerts, enabling 314(b) joint investigations, pre-filling SARs, and surfacing emerging threats and repeat offenders across the network.Trusted by regional and national banking communities, FiVerity makes collaboration scalable, secure, and actionable so institutions can stay ahead of evolving threats while making better use of their existing tools and resources. | $4M / Seed / Apr 20, 2023 | ||
| Canvas GFX was founded on the vision of making complex product design accessible to people across manufacturing organizations. We transform the way people communicate and comprehend the products they make and how they come together. | $9.9M / Series A / Dec 20, 2022 | ||
| Daylight is the first and only digital banking platform in the U.S. specifically designed for and by the LGBT+ community. Daylight’s card, app and digital services prepare members for the future faster by helping them to navigate the finance system, generate smarter habits and connect with a community working together to build the life they deservewithout compromise.Daylight was founded in 2020 and is located at West Hollywood, California. | $15M / Series A / Nov 18, 2022 | ||
| Secure DevOps (SecDevOps) Infrastructure Platform | $2M / Seed / Nov 02, 2021 | ||
| FiVerity helps bank and credit union communities collaborate to prevent fraud and improve operational efficiency through secure, shared intelligence. Our Anti-Fraud Collaboration Platform enables financial institutions to connect internal teams and external partners—such as peer institutions, industry associations, and law enforcement—throughreal-time data sharing, enriched investigations, and streamlined regulatory workflows.By eliminating information silos and empowering proactive fraud defense, FiVerity transforms fragmented detection and reporting processes into coordinated, community-driven responses. Our embedded, no-integration-required solution delivers immediate value by aggregating alerts, enabling 314(b) joint investigations, pre-filling SARs, and surfacing emerging threats and repeat offenders across the network.Trusted by regional and national banking communities, FiVerity makes collaboration scalable, secure, and actionable so institutions can stay ahead of evolving threats while making better use of their existing tools and resources. | $2M / Seed / Mar 17, 2021 | ||
| Finch empowers you to access the benefits of investing without having to significantly change the way you manage your money today. Finch lets you earn investment returns by automatically investing your balance into a portfolio of diversified exchange-traded funds (ETFs) designed to match your unique risk profile. This means your entire balance isalways working for you, from day one, no matter what your balance is. Finch further pushes the envelope by enabling you instant access to your money when you need it (even the invested part!).The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $1.8M / Seed / Sep 15, 2020 | ||
| Senso helps enterprises increase the bandwidth of information flow within their organizations. We’re a fast-growing startup offering a SaaS product designed for enterprises across financial services, healthcare, insurance, and other industries. The Senso platform offers enterprise-ready foundation models (LLMs) and a flexible way to aggregateinstitutional knowledge to enable frictionless search capabilities across documents, and real-time intelligence about customer interactions. | $2.9M / Seed / Jul 09, 2020 | ||
| Listo Financial is a consumer financial services company that offers Latino consumers in the US insurance products and loans through technology-based retail and mobile experiences. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 18, 2019 | ||
| Ourly is a digital allowance platform for banks that provides tools to remove the friction that parents and kids struggle with regarding money matters. Their best-in-breed SaaS platform empowers financial institutions to “turn on” financial literacy as a youth banking solution – standalone or integrated. | $2.6M / Seed / Sep 16, 2019 | ||
| Finch empowers you to access the benefits of investing without having to significantly change the way you manage your money today. Finch lets you earn investment returns by automatically investing your balance into a portfolio of diversified exchange-traded funds (ETFs) designed to match your unique risk profile. This means your entire balance isalways working for you, from day one, no matter what your balance is. Finch further pushes the envelope by enabling you instant access to your money when you need it (even the invested part!).The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $1.8M / Seed / Sep 09, 2019 | ||
| See all 15 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Mendoza Ventures invest in?
Mendoza Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Mendoza Ventures invest in?
Mendoza Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$4M at Seed and $9.9M–$15M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Mendoza Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Mendoza Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Mendoza Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Mendoza Ventures?
The team at Mendoza Ventures includes Adam Kerr (Senior Partner), Lee Woolley (Limited Partner) and Scott Heyes (CFO), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
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 Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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