Adrian Mendoza

VC at Mendoza Ventures

Adrian Mendoza is the Founder and General Partner of Mendoza Ventures. After having two VC-funded startups in Boston, Adrian started Mendoza Ventures to address the funding gap in the pre-seed investment stage for underrepresented founders. He launched his firm in 2016 and focused on investments in AI, Fintech, and Cybersecurity companies. Mendoza Ventures is minority and women-led as well as the first VC firm on the east coast founded by a Latino. The firm is currently raising its third fund and its first fund is in the top quartile of seed-stage funds.

He is the author of “Mobile User Experience”, a book on mobile user experience published by Elsevier in 2013, adapted industry-wide as the standard for mobile user experience education, and of the video series “CSS for designers” published by O’Reilly in 2015.

Adrian earned his bachelor from the University of Southern California and his Masters’s from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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