For our Managing Partners, being VC Include Fellows has been a transformative experience, from the depth of the application process, to the elevated conversations, and the access to world-class investors and funders. In their support of diverse emerging managers, the VC Include team has released a spotlight on Alejandro Mu?oz Mendieta, MBA and Andy Vargas-Hernandez, their background and what led them to launch No Border Ventures. Credits to dana fitchett and Alia Einstein-Diez and the rest of the VC Include team for working with us on making it possible. #emergingmanagers #venturecapital #utep #saintmarys #wharton #penn #hbs #harvardbusinessschool #harvard #southwest #VentureCapital #StartupInvesting #FinancialServices
Andy Vargas-Hernandez and Alejandro Mu?oz Mendieta, MBA of No Border Ventures have been breaking down barriers for as long as they can remember. Neither co-founder had the typical #VC trajectory. As immigrants and sons of immigrants from El Paso, Texas, Alejandro and Andy grew up bilingual and bicultural. Alejandro went from living in Juarez, Mexico, with his single mother to eventually breaking into Wall Street, getting an MBA from Harvard Business School, and then building a successful career as an operator. Most recently, he was CFO at Higo, where he built an online loan operation that lent $30M to SMEs and raised $63M in venture capital. Andy was the first in his family to go to college. He earned his degree while also on an ocean rowing team that raced across the Atlantic Ocean and a soccer team that won a state championship. He began his career as a trader and in capital markets in the energy space before going on to work on AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, and client acquisition at Amazon Web Services. A recent MBA graduate from the Wharton School, Andy also has considerable experience and success with deal sourcing and due diligence for early-stage investments at numerous VC firms.“ Andy and I call ourselves good troublemakers,” says Alejandro Mu?oz Mendieta. “We’ve been building careers on the back of resilience, entering rooms that typically aren’t made for folks like us; and we’re looking to help entrepreneurs who are also achieving every ounce of success through scrappiness, hard work, ingenuity, and calculated risk-taking.” No Border Ventures is a Texas-based, industry-agnostic, seed and pre-seed fund with a regional focus beyond the typical, coastal geographies. They’re looking to companies based in the Southwest and Mountain regions in the U.S. as well as in cross-border startups that span the U.S. and Mexico. Learn more about Alejandro and Andy on our blog! https://lnkd.in/eviCrdjh #impactinvesting #esg #fundmanagers #venturecapital #DiversityInVC?#ImpactinAction?#emergingmanagers #alternateinvestments #vc #pe #dei #latinosinvc