Our October Newsletter is live! This month's highlights: 🌟 Grisel and Peri’s Recent Promotions 🎉 Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month Featuring Jorge Garcia, Arian Razzaghi- Fernandez, and Elias Torres 🔎 iAsk.Ai Announces $4.2M Seed Round 💰 Suma Wealth Acquires Mooch Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/gu7qyjmm
Chingona Ventures
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Chicago, IL 13,858 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
Updates
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Chingona Ventures reposted this
Them: "Why would you ever go against Google in search?" Us: "Because AI is disrupting traditional search!" At iAsk.Ai, we're leveraging generative AI to redefine search, and here's how it's going: 📈 500M+ search queries expected by year-end 🎯 65% Gen Z audience – a key demographic that’s reshaping the future of search AND we’re proud to announce $4.2M in seed funding! 🎉 Thank you to all of our investors and Axios for covering our story! 🔗: https://lnkd.in/e9k_Af9E
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🎉 We are excited to announce our investment in iAsk.Ai, an AI-powered search engine built by Chicago-based founders, Dominik Mazur and Brad F.. The company recently announced $4.2M in seed funding, featured in Axios. Check out the full press release here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e9k_Af9E
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Happy National Chingona Day from Chingona Ventures! Chingona (cheen - go - nah): A person who is intelligent, fearless and gets things done. See also “Boss” or “Badass." Since 2019, we have been investing in exceptional founders who are “chingón” enough to do something that matters. In every business submission, we ask founders to describe their "Chingona Factor" -- what makes them more than just a founder or entrepreneur. Learn more about the areas we like to invest in and how to get in touch: https://lnkd.in/gFea6-Tu
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💫 Chingona Ventures Founding Partner, Samara Mejia Hernandez, was recently named to HOLA! USA'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. Check out the full article here: https://lnkd.in/g2B_A5dU
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Chingona Ventures reposted this
Do you have friends/contacts who have 8+ years full-stack engineering experience? Listen up: You're about to be REALLY popular for telling them about this opportunity. We're hiring an engineer for our team, and obviously I'm biased, but it's the dream job for the right type of person. You're going to be REALLY popular if you help your friend/contact get this job...so share it with them! Here's why: - We're a startup with a ton of momentum and customers who are obsessed with the product - Our team is remotely distributed and works mostly async - The team culture is highly collaborative but respectful of focus time and personal priorities -Everyone has a high degree of ownership and autonomy over their work. It's a high trust, high expectations, high accountability culture. For a senior engineer who loves the velocity of a startup and wants to be on the bleeding edge of this AI transformation we're seeing, it doesn't get much better than Hoop. Thanks in advance for sharing! https://lnkd.in/gPrP9USG
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Chingona Ventures reposted this
We're hiring a Full-Stack Engineer! If you have 8+ years of experience, are excited about the opportunity to have ownership and autonomy over your work, and love the idea of a seed stage startup on the cutting edge of AI....please apply! https://lnkd.in/g3v43xZa
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🎉 Congratulations to Chingona Ventures portfolio company, Lirvana Labs, Maker of Yeti Confetti Kids, for being recognized as the 2024 Solver of the Global Learning Challenge by MIT Solve!
Cofounder @Lirvana Labs, maker of Yeti Confetti Kids; ex-Head of TMT, HSBC Group Chairman Project Manager; PPE and Marketing @Penn
Today in NYC, the team at Lirvana Labs, Maker of Yeti Confetti Kids and Jusoor were jointly recognised by the MIT Solve Global Learning Challenge 2024 as a winning Solver, for our solution “Yeti Confetti for Refugees”, AND - received the GSR Foundation Prize for our use of AI, innovative and sustainable approaches to address global and local issues. With these awards combined, we can scale our refugee children served by 40x. I am first floored with gratitude to our team of incredible engineers, PMs, designers, marketers and storytellers. This proves our impact-first, AI-driven and unrelentingly research-focused approach can change the lives of so many children. What’s even more endearing about this win is the fact that I shared this moment with Dr Alexandra Chen, a woman who has been a kind, bright, pioneering light in warzone education and child psychology, who had never sought recognition her entire career. My friend of 30 years, she lets nothing stop her from comforting, empowering and healing children. We cried together this morning before the prize ceremony as we witnessed what’s happening in Lebanon - some of the darkest days. In fact, our joint solution “Yeti Confetti for Refugees” was first piloted in Lebanon in 3 refugee camps where the transformative learning impact delivered got us the awards. So far, the children we educated are safe but tomorrow is uncertain. All of our hearts are praying for them. As the MIT Chancellor reminded us today - let’s use technology to create equitable futures and generational change; the road is difficult but that’s why we need #Solvers and community. We are humbled to share the stage with so many incredible solvers - tech entrepreneurs, climate change warriors, financial inclusion disrupters, and those who work to bring economic empowerment. They are all doing the hard thing about hard things. Kapor Capital Chingona Ventures Transcend Capital Partners Philip Sohmen Christopher Lee Greg Bennett Asha B. Smriti Banthia David Morton Sean Lee ITVF - Innovation and Technology Venture Fund Colvin Luk
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Congratulations to Chingona Ventures Associate, Grisel Hernandez, on being recognized as one of eleven investors to watch by Venture Forward! 💪 Check out the full list here: https://lnkd.in/g7rDa-jR
In honor of #HispanicHeritageMonth, we’re proud to highlight 11 investors to watch in the VC industry and their impressive track records and career accomplishments. Check out the list ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/gdnC3y79 Nicole DeTommaso, Harlem Capital Lisa Feria, Stray Dog Capital Marcos Gonzalez, VamosVentures Grisel Hernandez, Chingona Ventures Pilar Johnson, Debut Capital Adrian Mendoza, Mendoza Ventures Diogo Myrrha, Album VC Camila Noordeloos, Grand Ventures Carmen Palafox, 2045 Capital Stefan Sandoval Yepes, JetBlue Ventures José Luis Silva Vázquez, Dux Capital
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Our September Newsletter is live! A few highlights: 💰 Why We Invested in Linker Finance (TS F23) 📚 Welcoming Our Fall MBA Associate, Daniel Parra 💪 The U.S. Latino Opportunity, Revisited by Grisel Hernandez Check out the full issue here: https://lnkd.in/gGVEfBwT