Location
United States, North America
Check Size
$100K - $250K
Investment Stage
Pre Seed
Seed
Focus Areas
Consumer Internet
E-commerce
Health IT
Web3/Blockchain
ClimateTech/CleanTech
Education
Developer Tools
FinTech
Enterprise
AR/VR
About Investor
Samara Hernandez is Founding Partner at Chingona Ventures in Chicago, writing $100K–$250K checks into pre-seed and seed-stage AR/VR, dev tools, climate tech, Web3, education, consumer internet, fintech, health IT, and climate investments. Her most recent investment is Certiverse. Before founding Chingona, she was a principal at MATH Ventures and spent years at Goldman Sachs; she holds an MBA from Northwestern.
Previous investments
Certiverse
11M |2025
Agency AI
12M |2024
Linker Finance
4M |2024
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