Tom Mendoza

Partner at EQT Ventures

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 21 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
VC🌍 United Kingdom20+ investmentsInvested this year
21
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Board Member
Jan 2026
We’re building Ylookup. The first agentic workflow engine for audit, tax, and advisory firms. Today, advisors spend 60% of their time on manual work instead of serving clients. Existing workflows are archaic, lacking automation, error detection, and process control. Ylookup automates the manual work into an intelligent workspace that accelerates the core workflows and eliminates mistakes. Our mission: give audit, tax and advisors their time back to focus on higher-value work.
Board Member
Nov 2025
Baller League is a 6-a-side football league blending traditional football with the street football culture. Its a tribute to footballs roots on the streets, offering an unpredictable, dynamic game free of politics or greed. A new era of football.
early stageSpectator Sports
Board Member
May 2025
MarvelX builds smart AI agents to manage claims, compliance, and support around the clock so you can focus on growth. Built for insurance and beyond.
Investor
May 2025
Built for accounting and finance teams, Rowan automates reconciliations, streamlines financial reporting and accelerates client delivery — all within Excel.
Board Member
Aug 2024
Who we are: meridianpay.com Backed by EQT, Point72, Lyrical, and extraordinary venture capitalists.
Board Member
Feb 2024
Private equity deal closings aren’t just painful: theyre a black box even to those closest to the transaction, reliant on software over 20 years out of date. The result: systemic inefficiencies and vulnerabilities that are perpetuated throughout the lifecycle of an investment. Pactio’s secure and controlled deal architecture helps investors and advisors mitigate risks, turn chaos into order, and drive efficiencies.
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Jun 2023
Payrails is a global payment software company helping leading enterprises to take control of their payment operations and maximize performance. Payrails’ all-in-one platform spans the entire payment lifecycle with a modular architecture that includes payment orchestration, payouts, tokenization, unified analytics, automated reconciliation, and in-person payments, all powered by advanced data capabilities. Founded in Berlin in 2021, Payrails has raised over $52 million from the world’s top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, HV Capital, EQT Ventures and General Catalyst.
Board Member
Jan 2022
The #1 fiat onramp aggregator. All fiat onramps in a single integration, unlocking the lowest fees and highest transaction success rates on the market. Contact us and integrate all major fiat-to-crypto onramps via a single API.
Board Member
Sep 2021
Juni makes every day easier for ecommerce businesses, helping you manage your finances and maximise cash flow - all from your smart dashboard.
Board Member
Jun 2021
Volt is the new leader in real-time payments. Our next-generation payment network unites domestic schemes to a single harmonised standard. Global, instant and interoperable, it’s driving the shift to an era where real time is the only time.
Board Member
Jan 2021
We are not solving climate change fast enough. People, as individuals, can only donate so much. That is why we want to build an app that puts 80% of profits directly to responsible reforestation. With Ecosia and our tree-planting partners, we will build an ecosystem of responsible alternatives to everyday services like banking and internet search. All to help solve the world’s biggest problem: climate change. Were live in the US!
Board Member
Sep 2020
Embed bank accounts, payments, and all kinds of financial products quickly via our simple API. Build on regulated infrastructure thats safe, compliant and secure. Griffin is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority. Our firm reference number is 970920.
mid stageBanking
Board Member
Mar 2020
Cleo. Where AI meets money. Cleo launched in 2016 by people who have been burned by banks. Fed up with the broken system, we decided it was time to make a change. Since then, the cost of living has skyrocketed, the rich have continued getting richer, and our vision has only become clearer. Our mission? To change the worlds relationship with money. Cleo is a platform for the 99% – an AI assistant defining a new category, one that goes beyond saving and budgets to actually changing how we feel about our finances. Using simplicity and humor, she’s helped millions of people improve their relationship with money, because we believe that everyone has the potential to achieve financial well-being in just one generation. Through a personalized chat, she provides you with deep insight about your money and tailored financial tools that increase your ability to save, all while making you laugh. We’re a product for the next generation. That means that we are committed to inclusive and unbiased financial growth for all. It also means dropping the BS. In the past year or so we’ve grown the Cleo team from 100 to 250+, and closed a $80m Series C led by Sofina (that’s a $500M valuation). Want to get involved? You know that awful feeling when you wake up wondering if what you’re about to do for the next 8 hours actually matters? That doesn’t happen here much. Everything we do is grounded in purpose. And because we’re all showing up for the same reason, collaboration comes easy. We have a culture of stepping up. We want, and expect you to grow and develop. You’ll have our support in everything you do. But more importantly, you’ll have our trust. We treat our people as humans first, employees second, which means giving everyone a voice. All perspectives are embraced here.
Investor
Oct 2019
The AI Registration Platform that turns data into direction - driving growth, executing tasks and filling start lines.
Investor
Apr 2019
Cytora is the pioneer of generative and agentic AI applied to commercial insurance workflows that digitize risk workflows at unparalleled levels of performance, configurability and scalability across the enterprise. With Cytora, commercial insurers uplift their premiums, improve control over risk selection and transform service to brokers and clients.
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2026
Board Member
Jan 2026
We’re building Ylookup. The first agentic workflow engine for audit, tax, and advisory firms. Today, advisors spend 60% of their time on manual work instead of serving clients. Existing workflows are archaic, lacking automation, error detection, and process control. Ylookup automates the manual work into an intelligent workspace that accelerates the core workflows and eliminates mistakes. Our mission: give audit, tax and advisors their time back to focus on higher-value work.
2025
Board Member
Nov 2025
Baller League is a 6-a-side football league blending traditional football with the street football culture. Its a tribute to footballs roots on the streets, offering an unpredictable, dynamic game free of politics or greed. A new era of football.
early stageSpectator Sports
Board Member
May 2025
MarvelX builds smart AI agents to manage claims, compliance, and support around the clock so you can focus on growth. Built for insurance and beyond.
Investor
May 2025
Built for accounting and finance teams, Rowan automates reconciliations, streamlines financial reporting and accelerates client delivery — all within Excel.
2024
Board Member
Aug 2024
Who we are: meridianpay.com Backed by EQT, Point72, Lyrical, and extraordinary venture capitalists.
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