# Mendoza Ventures

> Mendoza Ventures is a VC fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Apr 2023
- Lead investor: 73%
- Fund size: $100M
- Last fund: Jan 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mendoza-ventures/
- Website: http://mendoza-ventures.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MendozaVentures/

Mendoza Ventures is an early and growth stage Fintech, AI, and Cybersecurity venture fund that provides an actively managed approach to VC.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Mendoza Ventures. Shizune tracks 9 team members at Mendoza Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/mendoza-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.8M–$4M |
| Series A | $9.9M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 7 | 47% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 40% |
| Software | 4 | 27% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 27% |
| SaaS | 3 | 20% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 47% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 20% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 60% |
| Canada | 1 | 7% |
| Germany | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Kerr | Senior Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-kerr-4a12 |
| Adrian Mendoza | Founder, General Partner, Managing Partner & Investor | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrian-mendoza |
| Lee Woolley | Limited Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lee-woolley-e6f4 |
| Scott Heyes | CFO | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-heyes |
| Cordell Carter | Limited Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cordell-carter-ii |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FiVerity | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Wabbi | Secure DevOps (SecDevOps) Infrastructure Platform | $2M | Seed | Nov 02, 2021 |  |
| FiVerity | 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 | 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.ai | Senso is a fintech startup using artificial intelligence to provide financial institutions with recommendations on how to strengthen client relationships. | $3M | Seed | Jul 09, 2020 |  |
| Listo | 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. |  |  | Nov 18, 2019 |  |
| Ourly | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

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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 Funding Round 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 is Mendoza Ventures's check size?

Mendoza Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$4M at Seed and $9.9M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mendoza Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Mendoza Ventures?

Public channels for Mendoza Ventures include LinkedIn, the website linked on this profile and Facebook. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Mendoza Ventures?

The team at Mendoza Ventures includes Adam Kerr (Senior Partner), Adrian Mendoza (Founder, General Partner, Managing Partner & Investor) and Lee Woolley (Limited Partner), 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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