Chingona Ventures
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Joined March 2019
Happy Holidays from Chingona Ventures! As the year comes to a close, we’re excited to share our final newsletter of 2025. This month, we highlight: 🎁 A sneak peek at our 2025 Wrapped 🌟 @PeriEhlman's promotion to Associate 🚀 And more! https://t.co/5qxw5hewwJ
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🛍️ Portfolio company Beni is making a splash with its latest feature launch: the Beni Lens — an AI visual search tool that lets shoppers instantly find secondhand deals with just a photo or screenshot. Read more in @Forbes here:
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Shoppers want to buy secondhand, but the experience is still hard to navigate. A look at the discovery problem shaping resale’s future and the tools trying to solve it.
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Our November Newsletter just dropped! This month’s highlights: 🚀 Agency Announces $20M Series A 🌴 Chingona Ventures Takes LA Tech Week 🌟 @PeriEhlman Highlighted for her EVCA Leadership Check out the full issue here: https://t.co/QHjCWIgIUk
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🚨FLIGHTSCOPE BLACK FRIDAY SALE $1,200 OFF Mevo Plus Golf Simulators!
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We just raised $20M (Menlo, Sequoia, Felicis, Snowflake, Databricks) and launched Kai—the first superintelligent AI co-worker for customer success. It shouldn't take 100 people to serve 1,000 customers. Kai knows every customer, acts instantly, never drops the ball.
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We are thrilled to see Senior Analyst @PeriEhlman recognized by the @joinEVCA for her leadership of its Chicago Chapter. Read the full interview here:
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The Emerging Venture Capitalists Association (EVCA) is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the next generation of leaders in the venture capital industry.
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Our October Newsletter is here! This month's highlights: 💰 Announcing Our Investment in SafeHill 👋 Welcoming Our MBA Associates to the Team! 🌮 Recapping Our Hispanic Heritage Month Event 🎉 Celebrating National Chingona Day Read it here:
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Excited to see @iamtikue, CEO of portfolio company @joinkudos, speak on Forbes about how Kudos can help the everyday consumer maximize credit card rewards, benefits, and spend in a simple way. Watch the full interview here:
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Our September Newsletter has arrived! This month’s highlights: 🎉 Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month 📍 @TealHealth Teal Wand Now Available in California 🌟 Chingona Ventures Receives Estrellas Award from @AngelesInvestor Read it here:
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Reflections on TechChicago Week by @PeriEhlman:
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In July, we joined hundreds of founders and investors at TechChicago Week for a celebration of the people, ideas, and momentum driving our…
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Our August newsletter has arrived! This month’s highlights: 🏙️ Reflections on TechChicago Week 🤝 Our Third Annual Team Offsite + More exciting updates from our team and portfolio Check out the full issue:
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Our July Newsletter just dropped! A few highlights: 💰 LuminX Raises $5.5M in Funding 🚀 Moonlite AI Emerges from Stealth 🛠️ Check out @HoneyHomesHQ in Your City! Read the full issue here:
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Our June Newsletter has arrived! This month’s highlights: 🐣 @giftearlybird Acquired by @acorns 🔬 @TealHealth Receives FDA Approval 💼 Thesis on the Future of Work by Rebecca Wing 🤝 Thesis on the Future of Sales by Neesha Godbole https://t.co/H4fPOZm8UI
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🔥 We are excited to announce our investment in LuminX! Today, the company announced its oversubscribed $5.5M seed round. Check out its feature in Axios here:
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Warehousing and storage play a key role in supply chains — and improving productivity and visibility is a perennial focus for operators.
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We are excited to share that portfolio company @giftearlybird has officially been acquired by @acorns! Congrats to @jordan_wexler, @CalebFrankel, and the entire team at EarlyBird! We're proud to have been one of the company's earliest investors, investing at the pre-seed stage.
Acorns acquires family wealth and digital memory platform EarlyBird | TechCrunch
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Our May Newsletter is live! This month’s highlights: 🏠@BoomPayApp Announces Exclusive Partnership with ManageAmerica ⭐️@grishzsa presents at the VC Platform Global Summit Check out the full issue here:
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Our April Newsletter is live! This month’s highlights: 💰 @certiverse Raises $11M Series A 🚀 @eliast, CEO of @agency, Interviewed on @20vcFund 📚 Welcoming our MBA Associates, Rebecca and Neesha https://t.co/pctbREiXID
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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🚀 https://t.co/SHmJEkVyNp
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Certification platform Certiverse raised an $11 million Series A led by Cherryrock Capital, it announced this week. The company was founded by Ruben
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This Women’s History Month, we’re proud to celebrate portfolio company @TealHealth. Teal Health is bringing to market the first-ever at-home, self-collect cervical cancer screening in the US, currently under FDA review. Learn more about why we invested:
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Since the initial publication of this article in March 2025, Teal Health’s Teal Wand officially received FDA approval on May 9, 2025. Read…
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We are honored to have been named to the 2025 Power100 Asset Managers in Venture Capital list for the second consecutive year, presented by Blueprint Capital Advisors. Read more here:
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Our March Newsletter is live! This month’s highlights: 👩⚕️ @TealHealth: Providing Better Access, Experience, and Outcomes for Women 🧬 Thesis on Personal Health by MBA Associate, Rebecca Wing 🤖 Thesis on AI Agents by MBA Associate, Pilar Baeza https://t.co/GXLSNdH5zc
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