🎈 5 years ago today, we launched Chingona Ventures!

🚀 Since then, we have raised $59M in capital, reviewed over 7,000 deals, and invested in 43 early-stage companies.

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Congrats to my friend Sean Mendy and the entire team! Huge win for the VC ecosystem.

Congratulations to the 20 Fellows recognized in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Capitalism Power 100 List!

The DEIC Power100 recognizes individuals and firms delivering exemplary investment results and closing social and economic equity gaps while simultaneously moving the…

Our March Newsletter is out! ☘️

Some highlights:
💰 Why We Invested in Tendrel
🍎 Our Food Tech Outlook Featured on crunchbase
💖 Celebrating Women’s History Month
💳 Kudos Featured in Forbes Fintech 50

Read more here: mailchi.mp/chingona/march…

Looking for must-know investors as an early stage founder 👀

Throughout 2023, we highlighted great VCs around us once a week as part of our findfunding.vc funder spotlight series to help founders find the right investors.

After taking a creative break over the…

Our January Newsletter is out! 🎉

💫To kick off 2024, this special edition newsletter features our “2023 Wrapped” — an inside look into this past year’s deal flow, investments, and the Chingona Ventures team.

Check out the full article here👉 medium.com/chingona-ventu…

21) If you haven’t talked with your investors in a long time, they may have just written you off without your knowing. Proactively send them an update with info.

-revenue
-runway
-burn rate
-any money raised this year and at what terms

That’s it.

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Today’s tweet thread is about VC audits and how they affect startups.

I know…*such an interesting topic*…but actually it’s *extremely important* with the current market for founders.

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Our December Newsletter is out!

Highlights:
🙌 Why we invested in Betterleave
🐣 Celebrating EarlyBird: Time Capsule's $4.5M raise
📚 Ambika wraps up her internship and shares her research on the Insurtech space

Click the link below to learn more! 👇
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Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college.

There is a popular trope that venture investing is all about being contrarian. Every VC *wants* to be contrarian, but few truly are. There are longstanding structural & rational reasons why it's so hard to be.

VC is an industry with immensely long feedback cycles (7+ years). But…

Know a #VC investor making a significant impact in advancing #diversity , #equity , and #inclusion within the startup community? Nominations are now open for NVCA's 2024 #DEI Impact Award, presented with Venture Forward. 🚀

📅 Deadline: Dec 8, 2023
🔗 Nominate: nvca.org/nominations-fo…

Congrats to BeatrizAcevedo and Mary Hernandez, co-founders of portfolio company Suma Wealth, for being selected by digitalundivided and Cosmopolitan as 2023 New C-Suite honorees!🌟🏆

Check out the full article here 👉 cosmopolitan.com/new-c-suite/

Congratulations to Cara McCarty Abbott and the entire team at portfolio company Betterleave on raising $2.4M in funding! 👏

Read more here 👇
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We are honored to have been featured in a member profile by the National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC)! 💫

Read more about Samara M Hernandez journey to founding Chingona Ventures and her unique investment thesis here: naicpe.com/wp-content/upl…

We are excited to share an important milestone for Numat as we announce the construction of the world’s first industrial scale MOF manufacturing campus. View press release: bit.ly/49Fpdbh

#numat #numat tech #wearenumat #MOFs

Our November Newsletter is out!

Highlights:
👋 Welcoming our new analyst, Peri Ehlman!
🎉 Celebrating Papaya’s $2.25M Raise
🏆 Meili Technologies Wins Pitch Hearstlab Texas
👏 LeafTrade Founder & CEO, James Yi, Featured in Chicago’s 40U40

Read it here: mailchi.mp/chingona/novem…

Published an article in the Chingona Ventures blog!

Learn more about why we invested in Sandra Vanessa from Papaya 📚🥭

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Samara M Hernandez will be speaking on SomosVC (fka LatinxVC)  and AWS Startups panel, 'Trends, Triumphs, & Tomorrow: VC's 2023 Year End Review & 2024 Outlook,' with Rachel ten Brink and Marcos C. Gonzalez. Join us on Nov 14th at 9:30am PT. 💫

Register here 👉 lu.ma/scdc404u