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Samara Mejia Hernandez

Founding Partner and Managing Director, Chingona VenturesChingona Ventures

Current Firm

Chingona Ventures

Investments

10+ companies

Focus

Fintech, AI

About Samara Mejia Hernandez

Samara Mejia Hernandez is a Mexican immigrant venture capital investor at Chingona Ventures who broke into finance from a non-elite background as the daughter of a maid and busboy, explicitly using her experience having to fight and claw her way into the industry to relate to underestimated founders. She takes a deliberately orthogonal investing approach focused on technology companies serving emerging majority consumers, often backing founders at the idea stage with early conviction-driven checks while combining her engineering degree and Goldman Sachs experience with community building work through cofounding the Latinx Founders Collective.

Focus Areas

FintechAIConsumerDigital Health

Investment Stage

Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+

Notable Investments

Julian Capital
Harpoon Ventures
Humba Ventures
Fifty Years
Deep Checks
Founders Fund
Lightspeed
Sequoia Capital
Kleiner Perkins
Funds that lead pre-seeds