Helping our clients properly capitalize their vision is core to what we do.
Our values govern how we do it.
For clients and capital alike, earning trust guides
every aspect of our work. Trust begins with
respecting them enough to be honest.
In today’s post-truth environment, we can think of few virtues more valuable than honesty and accurate information upon which to make good, informed choices.
Armed with truth and coupled with acumen and experience, we deliver the right capital to facilitate our clients’ success. We bring the timeless, undeniable balance of The Golden Mean to everything we do.
Our creative approaches to finance are well known to our clients and remain flexible to meet their evolving needs.
However, our values are as fixed and foundational
as DNA.
WE PUT OURS ON THE LINE EVERY DAY.
Values don’t mean much until they cost us something.
SO FAR.
Our Journey
David Herrera brings over 20 years of diverse experience across investment banking, private equity, asset management, real estate development and structured finance to his clients. David has served in front and middle office roles for several multi-billion-dollar investment groups and has priced and underwritten over $40 billion in debt, equity, real estate, renewable energy and derivative transactions.
In contrast to some of his peers trained to extract value from the marketplace, David Herrera is an ethics-centered financial professional who adds tangible value to every client engagement. Informed by his Jesuit education from Loyola University of Chicago, you can rely on David to bring time-tested fundaments and honest, clear-eyed insight to your operation, as he does to his own successful entrepreneurial activities.
Utilizing his deep analytical expertise, he routinely identifies hidden risks and opportunities while maximizing enterprise value consistently across markets and asset classes. Such breadth and depth of experience uniquely positions Mr. Herrera to understand both client and capital perspectives seamlessly. These qualities also make David a trusted and strategic C-Suite collaborator. Mr. Herrera is fluently bi-lingual and holds dual citizenships in both the United States and Mexico.
FOUNDER
David Herrera
Project Manager Memo Chimal brings more than a decade of diverse business and entrepreneurial experience to Golden Mean Ventures. He has considerable expertise in both traditional and digital marketing, as well as growing early-stage ventures in strategic, operations, public relations, marketing, and sales capacities.
As an entrepreneur, Mr. Chimal co-founded a successful brewery and was instrumental in launching an award-winning tequila brand. His responsibilities extended further to include multiple capital raises, manufacturing facility setup (including permits), operations, and capacity growth, and even brokering the company’s profitable exit. These formative, hands-on, and complex experiences uniquely position Memo to offer uncommon expertise, insight, and empathy to Golden Mean’s clients.
An early adopter of digital currencies, Memo is highly skilled in Blockchain technologies, Non-fungible Tokens & other digital assets, as well as multiple AI applications. Memo Chimal is fully fluent in English and Spanish and holds a Masters in Business Administration from ITESM Tec de Monterrey / University of British Columbia with a concentration in Marketing, Business Model Design & Implementation.
Guillermo Gutiérrez
PROJECT MANAGER
We are experts at getting our clients capital-ready.
We develop winning financial models and presentation materials
so our clients’ vision resonates powerfully
with capital audiences.
Entrepreneurs often believe they’re ready for funding before they actually are. That is because their capital-raising experiences have been limited to funding sources who already know them. When venturing beyond these spheres for the next phase of growth, different, more intentional and comprehensive approaches are required. This is because the process of earning trust between the parties is early in its natural cycle.
Everyone is drinking from media firehoses in the 21st century, and institutional funders are no different as they review a variety of deals every day. Today’s alarmingly short attention spans require surgical structured finance as well as narratives that land quickly, powerfully, and memorably.
When pursuing new frontiers of institutional funding, understanding these audiences’ specific appetites, preferences, and sensibilities are crucial to successfully securing capital from those previously unfamiliar with your operation.
Our empathetic, precision underwriting and diligence process ensures we tell your story in a way that lands in ways that thrill these capital audiences, as well as assure your venture’s success moving forward.
