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Chingona Ventures
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Chicago, IL 13,548 followers
Investing in the next generation of badass founders.
About us
Investing in the next generation of badass founders. If you'd like to learn more about our investment thesis, process, and provide us the opportunity to invest go here: https://www.chingona.ventures/apply. All warm/cold intros and direct messages will be directed there, we look at every submission and will come back if it's a fit with our thesis. Yes, we have made investments from cold inbounds :)
- Website
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https://www.chingona.ventures
External link for Chingona Ventures
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Chicago, IL
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2019
Locations
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Primary
171 N. Aberdeen Street
400
Chicago, IL 60607, US
Employees at Chingona Ventures
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Samara Mejia Hernandez
Founding Partner at Chingona Ventures
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Antonio Davila
Manager at Euro-Tech Motors & Investor at Monster BA
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Grisel Hernandez
Associate - Chingona Ventures
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Andersen Herminia Boyer
Rhetorician, Artist, Force of Nature; Alchemist. 2nd year Master's Student; sprinting to my Ph.D.
Updates
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🚀 Chingona Ventures portfolio company, iAsk.Ai, was recently featured in an article by Tech Times, highlighting how iAsk AI is redefining the future of web search. "As AI technology advances, iAsk AI is not just keeping pace with changes in the digital space—it's leading the charge. Its success on the MMLU benchmark, enhanced by its commitment to transparency and privacy, positions it as a leader in the field as the most accurate in the market today," Carl Williams of Tech Times shares. Check out the full article below 👇
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🎉 We are thrilled to welcome Linker Finance (TS F23) to the Chingona Ventures portfolio! Congratulations to Jorge Garcia and team on a successful fundraise. Learn more about how Linker Finance (TS F23) brings a digital banking experience to community banks in the press release linked below.
🥁 Thrilled to Share!!🥁 We've successfully raised $3.7M in seed funding, led by TenOneTen Ventures and Chingona Ventures, with participation from amazing investors like Audaz Capital, Techstars, Bank of Brodhead, Angeles Investors, Commerce Ventures and our incredible angel investors, including Edrizio De La Cruz, Ahmed A. Mirza, Michael Olson, Selden Frisbee, Peter Cheung, Hector Ramos, and Roberto Medrano. Big shoutout to our amazing advisors Stuart Cook, Michael Koerner and Kelsey Weaver for their invaluable guidance and support throughout this journey. This milestone brings us one step closer to our mission of empowering community banks with the tools they need to transform their strong relationships into exceptional digital experiences. 🚀 https://bit.ly/3yUAdDX Matt Kozlov Minnie Ingersoll Eric Pakravan Samara Mejia Hernandez Dan Rosen Nicole Toussaint Beto Pallares Maximo Gamez Grisel Hernandez David Olivencia Adela Cepeda Francisco Mariscal Radek Paklikowski Gray Skinner Jorge Garcia Claudia Bardales Alejandro Corpeño Pete Torres Kyle Ray 🐢 Ana Zuniga Denisse Cruz Techstars Los Angeles Accelerator #communitybanks #seedfund #DigitalBankingExperience #SmallBizBanking #linkerfinance
Linker Finance Secures $3.7M Seed Round from Industry Leading Investors to Reimagine Digital Banking Solutions for Community Banks
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Chingona Ventures reposted this
Tendrel, a #ChingonaVentures portfolio company, recently emerged from stealth mode with its first blog post. 🚀 Learn more about how Tendrel is looking to harness the potential of frontline teams in the article linked below. 🔍 Plus, check out why we invested in Tendrel here: https://lnkd.in/d7pRnkK2
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Tendrel | Emerging from Stealth
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Tendrel, a #ChingonaVentures portfolio company, recently emerged from stealth mode with its first blog post. 🚀 Learn more about how Tendrel is looking to harness the potential of frontline teams in the article linked below. 🔍 Plus, check out why we invested in Tendrel here: https://lnkd.in/d7pRnkK2
Over the past two years we've collected millions of discrete data points. Now it's time we connect the dots: https://hubs.ly/Q02LTdzt0
Tendrel | Emerging from Stealth
blog.tendrel.io
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Chingona Ventures reposted this
Samara Mejia Hernandez is the founder of Chingona Ventures, a venture capital fund that invests in overlooked founders and companies. In this conversation with George Khalife, she talks about how her upbringing influences the way she shows up as an investor, why she feels it’s her duty to advocate for underrepresented voices, and what led her to start her own fund.
#157 - Samara Hernandez | Journey from Mexico to $52M VC Fund | Let's Grab Coffee Podcast - top 10 business podcast for entrepreneurs
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Our August Newsletter is live! A few highlights: 📝 InsurTech: The Consumer’s Perspective written by Grisel Hernandez 🎉 Celebrating Our Summer Birthdays 🎧 Chingona Ventures’ Recent Podcast Features Read the full issue here: https://lnkd.in/g3JAKU7e
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💫 Join Samara Mejia Hernandez, Founding Partner of Chingona Ventures, and Peter Walker, Carta’s Head of Insights, and on August 13th at 12pm CT as they review the Q2 data trends from private market activity. Register for the virtual event here: https://lnkd.in/guSihmUt
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We are excited to share that #ChingonaVentures portfolio company, iAsk.Ai, was recently ranked as the top language understanding model on the Hugging Face MMLU-Pro Leaderboard. 📈 Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/gygWimgv
iAsk Pro www.iAsk.Ai is officially the most powerful and accurate AI! 🚀 iAsk Pro has achieved an impressive score of 85.85% on the MMLU-Pro benchmark, outperforming all AI models on the official Hugging Face leaderboard. iAsk Pro is ranked as the #1 AI in the world overall and #1 AI in every subject tested - https://lnkd.in/gygWimgv 🚀 What is MMLU-Pro? MMLU-Pro is an improved benchmark that tests language understanding models with more challenging tasks. It adds tougher, reasoning-focused questions and increases answer choices from four to ten, making it harder to guess correctly and providing a more accurate evaluation of model performance. 📊 Why This Matters: Our success highlights iAsk Pro’s top performance in managing diverse and complex educational content. We're proud to provide a model that excels in understanding, reasoning, and accuracy. For more details about MMLU-Pro, visit - https://lnkd.in/gygWimgv To learn about iAsk Pro MMLU-Pro, visit - https://iask.ai/mmlu-pro
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🚀 Congratulations to portfolio company Certiverse on its recent partnership with HashiCorp!
In case you missed it, HashiCorp certification exams are now available through Certiverse. Explore these new features to enhance your experience: ◼️ Pre-appointment proctor support via chat ◼️ Intuitive appointment rescheduling ◼️ 60-day scheduling windows ◼️ Access to receipts and invoices for your employer Check out the new experience by logging in to your exam portal and navigating to Certiverse: https://bit.ly/3LCXnl6
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