# Duncan Hill

> Duncan Hill is a seed investor at Mantella Venture Partners backing Marketing and Real Time. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Mantella Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mantella-venture-partners)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Aug 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dunchill
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/dunchill

Duncan Hill is a seed investor at Mantella Venture Partners in Toronto focused on Marketing and Real Time. Duncan Hill is founder of Mantella Venture Partners.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marketing | 1 | 33% |
| Real Time | 1 | 33% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 33% |
| Advertising | 1 | 33% |
| Digital Media | 1 | 33% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shopistry | Shopistry enables today's fastest growing brands with a complete toolkit to embrace headless commerce without the typical costs of development or need to re-platform. Deliver tailored customer shopping experiences that grow sales across channels on an architecture with full flexibility and control as you grow. | $2M | Seed | Aug 16, 2021 |  |
| Chango | Chango is a programmatic advertising company, purpose-built for the marketer. The company uses exclusive intent data and technology to create relevant, timely advertising campaigns, and produce rich customer insights. The company’s unique live-profile technology makes intent data available faster than anyone else to help clients efficiently buildbrand awareness, acquire new customers and retarget site visitors. Chango works with more than 60 of Fortune 500 marketers and companies such as eBay, Sears, Clorox, Sprint and Toyota. To find out more, visit: http://www.rubiconproject.com.Chango was recently acquired by Rubicon Project, a global technology company leading the automation of advertising. The acquisition allows Rubicon Project to expand its premium advertising marketplace to include intent marketing capabilities at scale. http://rubiconproject.com/ | $12M |  | Nov 21, 2012 |  |
| Chango | Chango is a programmatic advertising company, purpose-built for the marketer. The company uses exclusive intent data and technology to create relevant, timely advertising campaigns, and produce rich customer insights. The company’s unique live-profile technology makes intent data available faster than anyone else to help clients efficiently buildbrand awareness, acquire new customers and retarget site visitors. Chango works with more than 60 of Fortune 500 marketers and companies such as eBay, Sears, Clorox, Sprint and Toyota. To find out more, visit: http://www.rubiconproject.com.Chango was recently acquired by Rubicon Project, a global technology company leading the automation of advertising. The acquisition allows Rubicon Project to expand its premium advertising marketplace to include intent marketing capabilities at scale. http://rubiconproject.com/ | $1.4M | Series A | Jun 30, 2010 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Extreme Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/extreme-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Inovia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inovia-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Compound](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/metamorphic-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Raiven Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raiven-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Garage Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/garage-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Rho Canada Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rho-canada) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Mantella Venture Partners

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

Mantella Venture Partners is a $20M early stage fund with a hands-on approach to building technology companies. We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs building market-altering mobile and Internet software businesses. At MVP we invest early.We invest alone, or alongside other value-added venture and angel investors that share the belief thatfounder/investor alignment is key to building successful companies and profitable exits. After investment, our portfolio companies benefit from active, hands-on involvement in all phases of growth, including product development, business development, marketing, financing, and team development. If you're looking for partners for your whole journey, not just money, get us involved early.

5 contacts available at Mantella Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Robin Axon | Co-Founding & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robin-axon |
| Andre Charoo | Entrepreneur-in-Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andre-charoo |
| Chris Sukornyk | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-sukornyk |
| Duncan Hill | Co-Founding General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/duncan-hill |
| Jeff Weshler | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-weshler |

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## FAQ

### What does Duncan Hill invest in?

Duncan Hill invests primarily in Marketing, Real Time and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Duncan Hill last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Duncan Hill closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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