Mercedes G. Riley

Member at Westchester Angels

📍 White Plains, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
VC🌍 United States
8
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Acting President/Investor
Jan 2024
TrueMark is the first teacher and student-centric AI environment for schools. TrueMark helps teachers bring AI into the classroom on their terms, while also helping to democratize personalized tutoring for every student.
Board Member/Investor
Dec 2022
Mach is a catalyst for disruption and innovation in off-road automation with the mission to empower leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) by providing world class solutions in perception, navigation, route planning, monitoring, connectivity, and the tools to customize solutions for their desired use and unique needs. The strategic process Mach takes to integrate the technologies that allow for advanced off road autonomy is rooted in a rich history of delivering prompt results and differentiating value.
Advisory Board/Investor
Nov 2021
GyftHint launched in 2021 and is a B2B2C platform that aims to revolutionize the gifting experience through its innovative multi-sided marketplace. The company has physical locations in Seattle, Boston, Florida, and New Jersey. Their platform allows users to curate their own personalized store, featuring products from their favorite retailers and brands. The idea behind GyftHint is to make gifting easier for both the gift-givers and recipients. Users can invite their family and friends to shop at their personalized store, streamlining the gifting process and removing the guesswork associated with traditional gift-giving. The platform utilizes generative technology, advanced algorithms, and artificial intelligence, to offer personalized product recommendations based on the preferences and interests of the users. This ensures that gift-givers can find the perfect gifts for their loved ones without the hassle of searching through numerous options. GyftHints unique approach in creating a multi-sided marketplace and incorporating generative technology sets them apart from traditional retail and gifting platforms. By offering a seamless and personalized gifting experience, GyftHint aims to disrupt the retail industry and change the way people approach gift-giving.
CFO/Board Advisor/Seed Investor
Dec 2019
Who are we? HomeRoots is a market leader in B2B sales of Furniture & Lighting products. We established HomeRoots because we felt that there is something missing that businesses and the trade need. Home is where the heart is. Home is where your customers set down their roots. Home is wherever people and familiar comforts move. We are the platform to help furnish those roots and create a customer's unique sense of place. What do we do? We offer an ever-growing e-catalog of products, curated to the needs of your customers. Additionally, we provide an elevated variety of logistics services and technical solutions to support you. As architects, designers and retailers, utilizing the HomeRoot e-commerce and logistics platform will drive down costs, increases sales and enables greater scale. HomeRoots B2B platform is the launch point for any new furnishing product entering the US Trade. HomeRoots is catered to supply any business with its furnishing needs. Work with us to lower your expenditure, elevate your shopping experience and deal with experts in the field.
Co-Founder & Seed Investor
Jun 2018
Where Big Dreams Intersect Big Data Launching later this year, Hello Career Guru is the first-ever artificial intelligence (AI) powered virtual career trainer to help women advance professionally. Hello Career Guru offers women one unifying platform for developing their personalized career game plan with recommended actions and resources. This game plan leverages proprietary female C-suite executive insights to reflect real-world experience from those who have achieved at the highest levels. Our team developed the platform with the guidance of HR and talent experts to ensure relevance and impact in managing your career.
Consultant/Start up Investor
2005
Experience · 13 entries
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Investments (6)
Founder (4)
Board (1)
2024
Acting President/Investor
Jan 2024
TrueMark is the first teacher and student-centric AI environment for schools. TrueMark helps teachers bring AI into the classroom on their terms, while also helping to democratize personalized tutoring for every student.
2023
Investor/Advisor
Jan 2023
Founded in 2012, SunRay Scientific develops and manufactures innovative electronic conductive and non-conductive materials. SunRay has developed a family of offerings to include novel conductive adhesives, printable conductive inks, and insulating encapsulant solutions for advanced electronic packaging across Printed Electronics and Semiconductor Packaging. SunRay’s patented ZTACH® ACE electrical interconnect technology is designed to deliver cost effective miniaturization and enhanced performance while utilizing existing manufacturing infrastructure. The simplicity of SunRay’s technology lowers production costs while speeding up production time. ZTACH® ACE is a Z-axis Anisotropic Conductive Epoxy consisting of a polymer matrix solution incorporating randomly distributed ferromagnetic particles. Primary benefits of ZTACH® ACE include: superior adhesion, high density interconnects, low-temperature cure, fine pitch capability, and no pressure assembly. Compared to conventional electronic interconnects, ZTACH® ACE exhibits the ability to reduce total manufacturing costs based on the elimination of process steps, improved yield, enhanced reliability/performance, and lower setup costs. This cost benefit combined with key technology differentiators has generated significant customer traction from numerous Fortune 500 companies. SunRay’s ZTACH® ACE Anisotropic Conductive Epoxy and ZMAG™ Magnetic Pallet system enable the future of printed electronics for use in emerging applications like: Flexible Wearables (smart labels, diagnostic patches, e-textiles); Electronic Micro-assembly (endoscopic diagnostic pill, toll tags, RFID tags);semiconductor packaging within Consumer Products (smart phone/computer OLED displays and LED lighting products); and X-Ray imaging (e.g., medical, scanners and airport security screening devices). Our innovative conductive silver inks enable improved reliability through a proprietary technology that blocks silver migration.
2022
Board Member/Investor
Dec 2022
Mach is a catalyst for disruption and innovation in off-road automation with the mission to empower leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) by providing world class solutions in perception, navigation, route planning, monitoring, connectivity, and the tools to customize solutions for their desired use and unique needs. The strategic process Mach takes to integrate the technologies that allow for advanced off road autonomy is rooted in a rich history of delivering prompt results and differentiating value.
2021
Advisory Board/Investor
Nov 2021
GyftHint launched in 2021 and is a B2B2C platform that aims to revolutionize the gifting experience through its innovative multi-sided marketplace. The company has physical locations in Seattle, Boston, Florida, and New Jersey. Their platform allows users to curate their own personalized store, featuring products from their favorite retailers and brands. The idea behind GyftHint is to make gifting easier for both the gift-givers and recipients. Users can invite their family and friends to shop at their personalized store, streamlining the gifting process and removing the guesswork associated with traditional gift-giving. The platform utilizes generative technology, advanced algorithms, and artificial intelligence, to offer personalized product recommendations based on the preferences and interests of the users. This ensures that gift-givers can find the perfect gifts for their loved ones without the hassle of searching through numerous options. GyftHints unique approach in creating a multi-sided marketplace and incorporating generative technology sets them apart from traditional retail and gifting platforms. By offering a seamless and personalized gifting experience, GyftHint aims to disrupt the retail industry and change the way people approach gift-giving.
2019
CFO/Board Advisor/Seed Investor
Dec 2019
Who are we? HomeRoots is a market leader in B2B sales of Furniture & Lighting products. We established HomeRoots because we felt that there is something missing that businesses and the trade need. Home is where the heart is. Home is where your customers set down their roots. Home is wherever people and familiar comforts move. We are the platform to help furnish those roots and create a customer's unique sense of place. What do we do? We offer an ever-growing e-catalog of products, curated to the needs of your customers. Additionally, we provide an elevated variety of logistics services and technical solutions to support you. As architects, designers and retailers, utilizing the HomeRoot e-commerce and logistics platform will drive down costs, increases sales and enables greater scale. HomeRoots B2B platform is the launch point for any new furnishing product entering the US Trade. HomeRoots is catered to supply any business with its furnishing needs. Work with us to lower your expenditure, elevate your shopping experience and deal with experts in the field.
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