# MentorTech Ventures

> MentorTech Ventures is a VC fund backing E-Commerce and Mobile. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Philadelphia, United States
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Feb 2016
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mentortech-ventures/about/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/MentorTechVC
- Website: http://www.mentortechventures.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MentorTechVentures/

MentorTech Ventures is a seed- and early-stage venture capital fund that invests in companies from the University of Pennsylvania ecosystem. These companies typically have key founders or managers who are students, faculty members or alumni of the university. Sometimes, the companies are based on intellectual property that originated at Penn.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 21% |
| Mobile | 3 | 13% |
| Software | 3 | 13% |
| Health Care | 3 | 13% |
| Retail | 2 | 8% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 38% |
| Series B | 5 | 21% |
| Series C | 2 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 8% |
| Debt Financing | 2 | 8% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 54% |
| France | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Boris Kalandar | Managing Director, Co-Founder | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boris-kalandar |
| Brett Topche | Managing Director | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brett-topche |
| Michael Aronson | Managing Director | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-aronson |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Curalate | Curalate connects moments of discovery to commerce. By creating a compelling commerce experience that adapts to how your consumer discovers your products, Curalate enables a seamless transition between off-site discovery and on-site conversion. Hundreds of the world’s leading brands, including Gap, Neiman Marcus, Sephora, Better Homes & Gardensand J.Crew, rely on Curalate’s discovery driven platform to grow revenue across Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr and Facebook.For more information please visit | $27.5M | Series C | Feb 02, 2016 |  |
| CloudMine | Rethink how you develop mobile applications. Significantly reduce your time to deployment, total cost, and overall ease of mind when it comes to developing mobile applications, integrating disparate datasets and maintaining IT infrastructures.CloudMine is a Managed Mobility solution that:1) Eliminates the need for ongoing maintenance andmanagement of mobile applications.2) Accelerates app development by 70% through mobile-optimized infrastructure and a suite of prefabricated web services.3) Standardizes your mobility platform to provide IT-approved common tooling across all business units. | $7.2M | Series A | Mar 03, 2015 |  |
| Jet | Jet operates a smart shopping platform that allows its member to shop online from various retailers. It enables users to shop products in various categories, such as household products, health and beauty, grocery, baby, pet supplies, electronics, home and furniture, appliances, patio and garden, toys and video games, books, music and movies, officeproducts, automotive, sports and fitness, clothing, shoes and accessories, jewelry and watches, arts, and crafts and hobbies. Mark Lore, Mike Hanrahan, and Nate Faust founded Jet in April 2014, with its headquarters in Hoboken in New Jersey. Jet operates as a subsidiary of Wal-Mart Stores as of September 19, 2016. | $55M | Series A | Jul 29, 2014 |  |
| Curalate | Curalate connects moments of discovery to commerce. By creating a compelling commerce experience that adapts to how your consumer discovers your products, Curalate enables a seamless transition between off-site discovery and on-site conversion. Hundreds of the world’s leading brands, including Gap, Neiman Marcus, Sephora, Better Homes & Gardensand J.Crew, rely on Curalate’s discovery driven platform to grow revenue across Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr and Facebook.For more information please visit | $8.6M | Series B | Jun 06, 2014 |  |
| CloudMine | Rethink how you develop mobile applications. Significantly reduce your time to deployment, total cost, and overall ease of mind when it comes to developing mobile applications, integrating disparate datasets and maintaining IT infrastructures.CloudMine is a Managed Mobility solution that:1) Eliminates the need for ongoing maintenance andmanagement of mobile applications.2) Accelerates app development by 70% through mobile-optimized infrastructure and a suite of prefabricated web services.3) Standardizes your mobility platform to provide IT-approved common tooling across all business units. | $1.4M | Debt Financing | Jan 15, 2014 |  |
| Prognos Health | Prognos Health is a leading health tech company that is pushing the boundaries of healthcare analytics. The company’s platform, prognosFACTOR, has the power to query billions of lab and health records on more than 325 million de-identified patients to answer clinically-focused healthcare questions in minutes, not months. The platform enables thequerying and purchasing of patient-centric, HIPAA-Compliant healthcare data from the Prognos Marketplace to address diverse applications, including cohort design, patient journey studies, health outcomes and more. Customers include 25 of the top 30 pharmaceutical manufacturers and three of the top five payers. |  | Series B | Jun 17, 2013 |  |
| Innova Dynamics | Innova Dynamics is an electronic materials company that offers touch screen and display applications to consumer electronics markets. It commercializes a materials platform that transforms polymers, surfaces, and devices by embedding nanoparticles directly into the surfaces of polymers and thereby creating new functionalities. InnovaDynamics focuses on applying its surface-embedding technology to form transparent conductive electrodes for touch sensor applications. Its embedding technology can be used to transform surfaces for numerous other applications spanning antimicrobials, catalysis, decorations, optical management, thermo-mechanical performance, and beyond.Innova Dynamics works with manufacturers of touch sensors and modules to make film sensors using cost-effective wet deposition processes such as roll-to-roll coating of conductive films and screen printing to pattern them. Its TCE platform serves high-growth markets currently spanning touch-enabled smart phones, tablets, and ultrabooks.Founded in 2007 by Arjun Srinivas, Alex Mittal, and Michael Young, Innova Dynamics is headquartered in San Francisco, California. |  | Series B | Jan 31, 2013 |  |
| Curalate | Curalate connects moments of discovery to commerce. By creating a compelling commerce experience that adapts to how your consumer discovers your products, Curalate enables a seamless transition between off-site discovery and on-site conversion. Hundreds of the world’s leading brands, including Gap, Neiman Marcus, Sephora, Better Homes & Gardensand J.Crew, rely on Curalate’s discovery driven platform to grow revenue across Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr and Facebook.For more information please visit | $3M | Series A | Jan 15, 2013 |  |
| PayPerks | PayPerks drives behavior change for low– and middle–income consumersPayPerks is a financial capability and engagement platform that leverages illustrated education and sweepstakes-based rewards to drive win-win outcomes for low– and middle–income (LMI) consumers and the financial institutions that serve them.Unlike traditional rewardsprograms, our approach addresses the unique needs and preferences of this market segment to create behavior change that's positive for consumers and profitable for financial service providers.Financial institutions can add PayPerks as a feature on their products and services, such as prepaid debit cards, to increase adoption, retention, desirable usage, customer self service and loyalty. Consumers trust PayPerks to deliver transparent and truthful advice that helps them minimize unnecessary fees, maximize convenience, and increase understanding.PayPerks was named "the most promising new idea serving the Emerging Middle Class" by winning the CFSI Core Mega Challenge, a "Best Newcomer in Payments" by PYMNTS.com, the “Next Big Thing in Prepaid” at the Prepaid Expo, the “Company to Watch” by Paybefore and the “The Most Promising Idea for the Emerging Middle Class” at the Core Innovation Challenge.Learn more at: http://corp.payperks.com/Read our press at: http://blog.payperks.com/categories/press/And we are usually hiring! http://jobs.payperks.com/ |  | Series A | Sep 01, 2012 |  |
| Curalate | Curalate connects moments of discovery to commerce. By creating a compelling commerce experience that adapts to how your consumer discovers your products, Curalate enables a seamless transition between off-site discovery and on-site conversion. Hundreds of the world’s leading brands, including Gap, Neiman Marcus, Sephora, Better Homes & Gardensand J.Crew, rely on Curalate’s discovery driven platform to grow revenue across Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr and Facebook.For more information please visit | $750K | Seed | May 15, 2012 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Robin Hood Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robin-hood-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-franklin-technology-partners-of-southeastern-pennsylvania) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Safeguard Scientifics](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/safeguard-scientifics) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does MentorTech Ventures invest in?

MentorTech Ventures invests primarily in E-Commerce, Mobile and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact MentorTech Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at MentorTech Ventures?

The team at MentorTech Ventures includes Boris Kalandar (Managing Director, Co-Founder), Brett Topche (Managing Director) and Michael Aronson (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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