MentorTech Ventures

MentorTech Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2005. The firm was founded by Boris Kalandar and Michael Aronson. The firm is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As of March 2019, the firm has 14 companies and has sold off its shares in 26 companies. Its most recent investment occurred in August 2017 for Port, a company which provides online tool services to help make customers become members.

Funding

MentorTech Ventures’ focuses on investing in companies in the field of information technology as well as marketing and healthcare technology. The firm primarily invests in companies based in the Greater Philadelphia and New York City area. It specifically focuses on funding startups that come from the University of Pennsylvania’s ecosystem. The firm funds companies in various stages of development, from seed-stage to growth-stage. Its most recent funding round collected $24.2 million in November 2013.

Timeline

Funded Companies

Company

Description

Website

Industry

Location

Prognos Health

A healthcare company using artificial intelligence to help track and predict the onset of human diseases.

prognoshealth.com

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Warby Parker is an eyeglasses retailing company.

Company

The Neat Company is a Philadelphia-based software company.

TicketLeap is a Philadelphia-based company founded by Chris Stanchak.

ticketleap.com

Philadelphia

Yodle

Yodle is a New York City-based company founded by Nathaniel Stevens, Bobby Lo, Kartik Hosanagar, John Berkowitz and Milind Mehere.

yodle.com

Social media marketing

Spreecast is a San Francisco-based company.

spreecast.com

Entertainment industry

Wanderfly is a New York-based company founded by Christy Liu, Jorge Trujillo and Evan Schneyer.

wanderfly.com

New York

GoTenna

goTenna is a company that builds devices that pair to a phone to create mesh networks so people can relay text and GPS messages with no cellular service required.