MBA Ventures
New York, NY, United States
Overview
MBA Ventures' goal is to help MBA programs develop a leading entrepreneurial ecosystem by giving founders access to early-stage funding.
- Total investments
- 3
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 3
- Active investors
- 0
Investment portfolio
- Idilio
Participated · Seed · Jun 2026
Idilio produces vertical micronovelas with episodes of one to three minutes and seasons that can reach up to 80 chapters, aiming for strong hooks in the first three seconds. The company describes itself as data-first: it writes and produces initial chapters, publishes them in-app and on social, and uses rapid metrics to decide whether to rewrite or scale a story. Idilio reports roughly two million downloads in 120 countries and about 45 minutes of daily use per user, which the company says is double Netflix's mobile time by its metrics. Founder Gabriela Tafur, a Colombian lawyer, TV presenter and Stanford MBA, built the product after observing short-form dubbed dramas in mobile use. The company targets Latin American melodrama as a cultural differentiator versus Chinese-origin micro-series and aims to scale its audience internationally. The model emphasizes low-cost, fast production cycles but faces sector risks such as low retention and variable content quality.
- BON Credit
Participated · Seed · Dec 2025
BON Credit operates an AI-powered platform designed to automate credit card selection, debt repayment, budgeting and credit-score optimization for U.S. consumers, with a special focus on Gen Z. The company’s proprietary co-pilot, CredGPT, delivers conversational, personalized guidance that places credit and debt management on autopilot while rewarding responsible financial behavior. Rolled out in October 2025, the BON Credit app aspires to reshape the $18 trillion U.S. consumer credit market and improve financial literacy for more than 100 million debt-carrying Americans. Recent funding provides resources to expand product features and scale its next-generation credit management tools. Co-founders Samder Singh Khangarot and Darwin Tu bring prior experience in engineering, fintech scoring and entrepreneurial ventures in both Silicon Valley and Asia. The company was incubated by Foundation Capital and Inception Studio before attracting outside capital. With $3.5 million in fresh seed funding, BON Credit is positioned to accelerate user acquisition and further develop its AI infrastructure.
- Mentium
Participated · Seed · Oct 2025
Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Mentium is an AI-native platform that lets freight brokerages and logistics providers deploy task-specific “digital workers.” The company’s agents plug into TMS, ERP, email, phone, SMS, and third-party chat apps to create a single source of truth and automate repetitive processes without coding or pre-training. Its initial product tackles accounts-payable automation for carrier payments—a labor-intensive, revenue-leaking workflow—while additional agents handle load booking, rate negotiation, reporting, and customer–carrier communications. Early customers such as Baker Tilly (Panama), Sethmar, Heartland Logistics Group, and Continental Expedited Services report up to 70 % of tasks completed with zero human touch. Mentium positions itself as the future “operating system for logistics,” aiming to expand automation across an enterprise once integrated. Strategic partnerships with Google, AWS, and NVIDIA support enterprise-grade scalability and compliance. Proceeds from the latest funding will accelerate product development, broaden go-to-market efforts, and grow the engineering team.
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