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Chingona Ventures
Venture capital · Chicago, IL, United States · North America
Chingona Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies, primarily pre-seed rounds. It writes initial checks of $250k-$2MM and targets 5-10% equity ownership, and can lead, co-lead or participate in rounds.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningFintechCybersecurity
In its own wordsfintechfuture of workfuture of learninghealth techpre-seeddiversity
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Or find every investor that fitsChingona Ventures lists 6 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (33%), Fintech (17%) and Cybersecurity (17%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Techstars, BlueWing Ventures and Broom Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Chingona Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 17% |
| Seed | 67% |
| Series A | 17% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 8th | 6 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 84th | 83% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 62th | 33% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Techstars | 2 |
| BlueWing Ventures | 1 |
| Broom Ventures | 1 |
| C2 Ventures | 1 |
| Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator | 1 |
| Equal Ventures | 1 |
| Fc Centripetal | 1 |
| Fen Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 33% | 18% |
| Fintech | 17% | 12% |
| Cybersecurity | 17% | 4% |
| Space & Defense | 17% | 3% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 8% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Chingona Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Chingona Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Sept 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 21 Aug 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 14 Jul 2026 | Seed | |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Seed | |
| 29 Sept 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Chingona Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Chingona Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
6 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beagle Labs provides property intelligence and inspection services to insurance carriers and administrators using AI-assisted analysis and human review. | Real Estate & ConstructionFintech | Sept 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Chord provides an analytics harness that manages and improves context, applies permissions, and validates queries to help business users get trusted answers from their data | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Apr 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Ciphero provides a platform to secure and verify AI interactions across various models, agents, and machines | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Dec 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Dapta provides AI voice and text agents for sales automation, particularly for small and medium-sized businesses. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Aug 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Linker Finance provides digital banking and customer relationship management (CRM) technology for retail and commercial banks | FintechSpace & Defense | Jul 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides threat exposure management and security services using AI and automation. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Series A | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 13 Nov 2026- Site
- chingona.ventures
- Last read
- 13 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 29 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 6
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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