# Mento VC

> Mento VC is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wilmington, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mento-vc/
- Website: https://mento.vc/

Mento VC is a venture investment company. The company invests in global startups with teams from the USA, Israel, Europe & UK. Mento VC's investment focuses on Productivity Tools, Future of work, B2B SaaS Enterprise, Fintech, HRTech, and Consumer.Mento VC was founded by three best friends with a great deal of different investment andbusiness experience who decided that it’s time to share it with others.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $800k–$7.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$3M |
| Series A | $15M–$35M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 11 | 52% |
| Software | 10 | 48% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 24% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 19% |
| B2B | 2 | 10% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 52% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 24% |
| Series A | 2 | 10% |
| Angel | 1 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 52% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 10% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |
| Germany | 1 | 5% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Zhuravlev | General Partner | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-zhuravlev |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Beglaubigt.de | Legaltech startup from Germany https://beglaubigt.de | $3.3M | Seed | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| Command Code | Langbase helps developers ship composable AI agents with hyper-personalized memory (RAG).Langbase is the composable AI infrastructure and developer experience to build, collaborate, and deploy any AI agents (AI features). Our mission is to make AI accessible to everyone, any developer not just AI/ML experts. We are the only composable AIinfrastructure. That's all we do. | $5M | Seed | Feb 25, 2026 |  |
| Mirai | On-device SDK (developer suite) for running highly optimized inference, fine-tuning, and operating LLMs and other deep learning models on the device. We aim to make it easy for developers to choose and route the query to the right model and deploy it to the device in a couple of clicks.Mirai is addressing a significant gap in on-device AIinference and training. Current cloud-based models face high latency, privacy concerns, and reliance on constant connectivity. Developers also struggle with high costs for personalization (e.g., $100M per year for 1M MAU) which is the most crucial pain point now and a core of our GTM. There’s no existing developer-friendly solution for on-device mobile AI, fine-tuning, and management. Our vision involves expanding from a robust SDK to include a developer console for model management, benchmarks, and fine-tuning. | $10M | Seed | Feb 19, 2026 |  |
| Phia | Phia is a company that provides a tool for online shoppers to compare prices and discover better deals across thousands of retailers and resale platforms. It offers a browser extension and a mobile app that include features such as price-comparison, alerts for price changes, and suggestions of similar or used items when an item seems overpriced.Phia draws on data to help users assess whether a listed price is fair, high, or typical. It also curates personalized shopping feeds and editorial picks based on shoppers’ behavior and preferences. The goal is to simplify decision-making for consumers by consolidating options and insights into one interface. | $35M | Series A | Dec 04, 2025 |  |
| Leo AI | Leo™ is the world's first engineering design copilot, empowering engineers and designers to turn ideas into products in seconds. Leo's generative AI platform transforms text, sketches, specs, and CAD constraints into DFMA-optimized, full-assembly 3D CAD models, saving companies up to 70% of their engineering time and cost. Leading AIresearchers and mechanical engineers from MIT, Technion, Microsoft, and Elbit Systems founded Leo in 2023. | $5M | Seed | Sep 02, 2025 |  |
| Openlayer | Openlayer is helping ML teams build the future of reliable, performant, and ethical machine learning. | $14.5M | Series A | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Tella | Tella is a video presentations for remote teams. Record, edit, and share video presentations from your browser. | $2.1M | Seed | Apr 22, 2025 |  |
| Avataros | AvatarOS is developing the next evolution in interactive human avatars that reach the quality of real life, empowering creators to engage a human audience with the efficiency of artificial intelligence and the authenticity of human individuality. | $7M | Seed | Mar 06, 2025 |  |
| Final Round AI | Final Round AI is an AI-driven platform designed to fundamentally change the job search process. | $6.9M | Seed | Jan 30, 2025 |  |
| Platus | Platus offers no-code legal tools and APIs, helping SMBs streamline notarization, drafting, and compliance tasks. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Dec 04, 2024 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [AltaIR Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altair) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Race Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/race-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Altair Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altair-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Davidovs Venture Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/davidovs-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Mento VC invest in?

Mento VC invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 21 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 Mento VC's check size?

Mento VC typically joins rounds of $800k–$7.3M at Seed, $500k–$3M at Pre-Seed and $15M–$35M 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 Mento VC participates in.

### How do I contact Mento VC?

Public channels for Mento VC include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. 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 Mento VC?

The team at Mento VC includes Alex Zhuravlev (General Partner). 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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