Mario Avila

Professor @ Vanderbilt | Investor | Board Advisor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 United States
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Investor
Jan 2025
Moneco is a cross border neobank for Francophone Africans. Only with a passeport/ID, our users can access: - Accounts : European account, USD account, USDC wallet (Solana) - Transfers : Instant bank transfers in Europe (instant SEPA), US bank transfers (ACH), USDC transfers (Solana), remittances. - Cards : a virtual VISA card compatible with Apple Pay & Google Pay This product facilitates international transactions for Africans who struggle with local offerings, our users include freelancers, tourists, travel agencies, communication agencies, entrepreneurs, airbnb owners, e-commerce entrepreneurs, remittance recipients, etc.
mid stageBanking
Investor
Oct 2023
A digital underwriting platform focused on expanding access to credit.
Investor
Sep 2023
Beem is Americas Wallet! Powered by our Purchase Intelligence Platform, Beem has been helping 166M Americans increase their purchasing power as they make 600 purchases per year and contribute over $10 trillion annually towards the US GDP, since 2021. We are the single logitudinal repository of siloed information for purchases with AI applied to it and an AI Agent market place that continues to expand this repository. We also help retailers, airlines and convenience stores improve their ATV and Customer Frequency while increasing their margins. Beem is going after the $600B annual revenue Purchase Intelligence market and be the dominant player in it.
Investor
Apr 2023
Founded in 2014, we’re America’s largest venture firm for individual investors and VC investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions. Offerings include institutional-grade funds with large diversified portfolios and deal-by-deal investing through our Syndicates. Investment minimum is $10,000. • Top-20 VC Firm (Time Magazine ’25) • Top-Decile Investment Performance (Carta Benchmarks ‘25) • Top 20 VC Firm (CB Insights 24) • Top 50 Unicorn VC (Stanford GSB Research ‘25) • Top 3 Most Active US VC Firm (PitchBook ‘18 - ‘24) • Most Founder Friendly Investor List (Inc. Magazine ‘24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • #1 Most Active Venture Firm in the US (PitchBook 22 & 23) • Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights 24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • Portfolio of 1,600+ current and historical companies • 40+ full-time VC investors • Founders get access to our community of 850,000+ members and 6,000+ Experts. Offers of securities made only to eligible investors by formal offering documents describing risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio companies shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The content on this account is intended solely for persons located in the U.S. and is not directed at, and must not be acted upon, by any person in the United Kingdom. UK residents seeking information about AV should refer only to communications issued by Alumni Ventures UK LLP, which provides information solely on a non-promotional basis and only distributes Financial Promotions to eligible recipients in accordance with UK law.
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2025
Investor
Jan 2025
Moneco is a cross border neobank for Francophone Africans. Only with a passeport/ID, our users can access: - Accounts : European account, USD account, USDC wallet (Solana) - Transfers : Instant bank transfers in Europe (instant SEPA), US bank transfers (ACH), USDC transfers (Solana), remittances. - Cards : a virtual VISA card compatible with Apple Pay & Google Pay This product facilitates international transactions for Africans who struggle with local offerings, our users include freelancers, tourists, travel agencies, communication agencies, entrepreneurs, airbnb owners, e-commerce entrepreneurs, remittance recipients, etc.
mid stageBanking
2024
Faculty Director - Center for Social Ventures
Jul 2024
Vanderbilt University is a top-ranked teaching and research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Powered by collaboration. Follow Vanderbilt on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and Instagram @VanderbiltU. See more Vanderbilt social media at https://social.vanderbilt.edu/ Located in Nashville, Tenn., and operating at a global crossroads of teaching and discovery, Vanderbilt University is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded and your abilities challenged. It is a place where your diversity — of culture, thinking, learning and leading — is sought and celebrated. It is a place where students and employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. We hire hundreds of employees each year and have a wealth of opportunities ranging from information technology to development and dining to athletics. We are Vanderbilt. Join Us. Our comment policy: https://news.vanderbilt.edu/resources/about/comment-policy
2023
Investor
Oct 2023
A digital underwriting platform focused on expanding access to credit.
Investor
Sep 2023
Beem is Americas Wallet! Powered by our Purchase Intelligence Platform, Beem has been helping 166M Americans increase their purchasing power as they make 600 purchases per year and contribute over $10 trillion annually towards the US GDP, since 2021. We are the single logitudinal repository of siloed information for purchases with AI applied to it and an AI Agent market place that continues to expand this repository. We also help retailers, airlines and convenience stores improve their ATV and Customer Frequency while increasing their margins. Beem is going after the $600B annual revenue Purchase Intelligence market and be the dominant player in it.
Investor
Apr 2023
Founded in 2014, we’re America’s largest venture firm for individual investors and VC investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions. Offerings include institutional-grade funds with large diversified portfolios and deal-by-deal investing through our Syndicates. Investment minimum is $10,000. • Top-20 VC Firm (Time Magazine ’25) • Top-Decile Investment Performance (Carta Benchmarks ‘25) • Top 20 VC Firm (CB Insights 24) • Top 50 Unicorn VC (Stanford GSB Research ‘25) • Top 3 Most Active US VC Firm (PitchBook ‘18 - ‘24) • Most Founder Friendly Investor List (Inc. Magazine ‘24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • #1 Most Active Venture Firm in the US (PitchBook 22 & 23) • Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights 24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • Portfolio of 1,600+ current and historical companies • 40+ full-time VC investors • Founders get access to our community of 850,000+ members and 6,000+ Experts. Offers of securities made only to eligible investors by formal offering documents describing risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio companies shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The content on this account is intended solely for persons located in the U.S. and is not directed at, and must not be acted upon, by any person in the United Kingdom. UK residents seeking information about AV should refer only to communications issued by Alumni Ventures UK LLP, which provides information solely on a non-promotional basis and only distributes Financial Promotions to eligible recipients in accordance with UK law.
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