Partner
Carolina Huaranca Mendoza
Founding General Partner, First Close Partners, First Close Partners
- Firm
- First Close Partners
- Title
- Founding General Partner, First Close Partners
- Role
- General partner
- Known as
- Investor
Record updated 21 September 2026
About
Carolina Huaranca Mendoza is a General Partner at First Close Partners and a Managing Partner at 1504 Ventures. She began her investing career as a Principal at Kapor Capital, where in addition to investing in startups, she also designed Kapor’s first formal LP strategy into diverse fund managers. Upon graduating Cornell University, Carolina worked in M&A investment banking as well as in sales and marketing roles in edtech. She launched her own startup, Spriggle, a marketplace for STEM education products, before serving as Founding Director of the Clubs Division of Girls Who Code. Carolina has been featured in TechCrunch, CNN Money, SF Chronicle, and USA Today.
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