Irene Mingozzi
Principal at E12 Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2024 - Current
101er
2024
La Carica delle 101 is a non-profit initiative born from the passion and determination of 100+ women with the goal of supporting and guiding Italian startups in their growth journey.
Venture Partner
2024
Principal
2023 - 2024
At E12 Ventures we invest in Series A and Series B companies that have unique expertise working on solving the most pressing challenges facing global industries. Our investments are focused on technologies such as AI, Deep Learning, IoT, and Robotics that are applied in broad industrial sectors including Climate Tech, AgTech, FoodTech, HealthTech, FinTech and Logistics/Supply Chain. Learn more at 👉 e12.ventures
Principal Cohort
2024
All Raise is the leading organization for women in Venture Capital. Its mission is to accelerate the success of female funders and founders to build a more prosperous, equitable future. I was selected to be part of the VC Principal Cohort as well as the VC Champions 2024 program.
All Raise is a nonprofit on a mission to accelerate the success of female founders and funders to build a more prosperous equitable future.
Raised $15,000,000.00 from Silicon Valley Bank, Sequoia Capital, Pivotal Ventures, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Reid Hoffman Foundation, Silicon Valley Bank and Pivotal Ventures.
Member
2021
The world's largest global community for women in Venture Capital with 6000+ members.
Principal
2023 - 2024
Senior Investment Associate
2020 - 2023
Lombardstreet Ventures is a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage companies based in the US, with a preference for those based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I joined as the first investment team member, working with the two GPs and founders. During my 3 years at the firm, we went from Fund I to Fund III, investing in 30+ companies (30% female founders, 55% immigrants) like Pry (exited to Brex), Albedo (raised $120M+), FlutterFlow (raised $30M+ from CRV, Google Ventures, Gradient).
Lombardstreet Ventures operates as a pre-seed/seed venture capital firm.
Author - Inside Silicon Valley
2020 - 2022
Co-author with Luigi Bajetti of the monthly column "Inside Silicon Valley" in Millionaire magazine about the latest trends, the innovations that are changing the world, the Silicon Valley mindset.
Mentor
2020 - 2022
The Alchemist Accelerator is a venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating startups whose revenue comes from enterprises.
AWS Healthcare is a global healthcare accelerator.
Director - Silicon Valley Innovation Hub
2015 - 2020
Since 2015 I've been working in San Francisco in charge of the activities of ART-ER's Innovation Hub in Silicon Valley supporting the internationalization of the ER innovation ecosystem in Silicon Valley. We supported over 100 companies and built a network of thousands of organizations all over the US.