Congratulations to @Tendrelinc team on its emergence from stealth mode in its inaugural blog post! Learn more about why we invested in Tendrel here: medium.com/chingona-ventu…

📣Applications for the @SomosVC Fellowship Program are officially OPEN for Fall 2024! 🍂 This is an 8-week program designed for early-in-career Latino/a professionals who are interested in breaking into VC. Learn more and apply today! 🔗bit.ly/49QkSle Please share 🤝🏽

🎉 We are thrilled to welcome LinkerFinance (TS F23) to the Chingona Ventures portfolio! The company recently announced its oversubscribed $3.7M seed round. Read more below. prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

🚘 Congratulations to Sigo Seguros on its announcement of $10.5M in Series A funding! Sigo is changing the way working class communities are insured with their fully bilingual, mobile-first auto insurance platform. Read the full press release here: axios.com/pro/fintech-de…

Congratulations to Chingona Ventures Associate, gris, on being recognized as one of eleven investors to watch by Venture Forward! 💪

The deadline for the 2024 VC Human Capital Survey has been extended to this Friday, Oct. 4! Thank you to the firms who have already submitted. If your firm has not yet submitted, there’s still time! Do your part to support #VC and submit your data today.

💫 Our Founding Partner, Samara M Hernandez, was recently named to Revista ¡HOLA!’s Top 100 Latina Powerhouse 2024 List in the Disruptors category. Latina Powerhouse is an annual initiative celebrating the most influential, empowering and inspiring Latinas.  tinyurl.com/mbn4f32n

Huge congrats to Dominik Mazur (iAsk) and the iAsk Ai team on the close of their $4.2M seed round to reimagine search. One of Chicagos hottest AI cos.

We are excited to announce our investment in iAsk Ai - an AI-powered search engine built by Chicago-based founders,Dominik Mazur (iAsk) and Brad Folkens. The company recently announced $4.2M in seed funding via Axios. Check out the full press release: tinyurl.com/2casrz4c

Samara M Hernandez was recently featured in an article published by Inc. where she shares our thesis and what we look for in startups. Check it out below 👇

Today’s the day. Introducing my new company, @Agency — backed by @Sequoia and Hubspot Ventures; with my friend and mentor @BHalligan on the Board. Enjoyed getting to talk with Marina Temkin TechCrunch about what we’re building. agency.inc

🚀 Exciting news from portfolio company Cartwheel!  delivery.com, with over 12,000 businesses and 3 million customers, is now powered by Cartwheel’s technology. Read more here: restaurantdive.com/press-release/…

Today Finix is excited to announce we’ve raised $75M in Series C funding led by Acrew Capital, co-led by Lightspeed and Leap Global Partners. When we started Finix, we were big believers in the developer movement. We still are! Since then, we’ve recognized that there’s been a

Happy International Women’s Day! Today, we celebrate the incredible women on the Venture Forward board who inspire and empower the next generation of VC investors. Thank you for your vision and leadership in building a stronger, more inclusive ecosystem.👏 Jennifer Friel

Say goodbye to meeting bots 🤖, and hello to Hoop for Mac! Yesterday, portfolio company Hoop introduced the Hoop app for Mac, the first AI tool that automatically captures tasks across virtual meetings, email, and Slack. Check it out today at hoop.app 🙌

Taking a photo can do more than capture your best memories. It can remind you to share them with your favorite people. It’s the only camera you’ll ever want to use.

We are thrilled to share that Certiverse has closed an oversubscribed $11M Series A round led by Cherryrock Capital We’re proud to have backed Certiverse from the very beginning and are excited to continue supporting them in this next stage of growth🚀 tinyurl.com/ysvp5u5t

Lake Dai Adam Draper ⏻ Maria Rotilu Jeff Bargmann Shauntel Garvey Nico Taing Nicolas Bourliatoux Chloë Ryan @AndrewGonz83763 9- 🧑‍💻 Future of Work with Samara M Hernandez • Overlooked vs. Overhyped trends • The impact of AI on workforce tech • Metrics to evaluate market potential

Give First: The Power of Mentorship is officially out (today is the release date). In honor of the release, I decided to write feld.com/archives/2025/… to explain why I view Give First as a philosophy instead of a religion. For all that have embraced this philosophy, contributed

1) Today, I'm excited to announce Equal Ventures' 4th Annual Emerging Manager Circle Summit! Last year, we hosted >350 emerging managers and LPs for one of my favorite events of the year and this year is going to be bigger and better than ever before🧵 newsletter.equal.vc/p/announcing-t…