Access Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in fiercely passionate founders leading visionary, early-stage technology companies. We seek to add significant value beyond simply the capital invested and throw our resources, decades of operating and investing expertise, broad networks, and every ounce of our emotional energy behind our founders' success. We actively help our portfolio companies build and recruit teams, fundraise, develop business strategy, and advance to an exit. We typically make our initial investment as part of the first institutional round, and we often continue investing in subsequent rounds. Access was founded in 1999 by Frank Mendicino III.