# Mantella Venture Partners

> Mantella Venture Partners is a VC fund in Toronto backing Software and Mobile. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 41%
- Fund size: $20M
- Last fund: Mar 2010
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/1101974/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/mantellavp
- Website: http://www.mantellavp.com

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$4M |
| Series A | $1.4M–$12M |
| Series B | $13M–$39M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 24% |
| Mobile | 6 | 21% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 17% |
| Marketing | 3 | 10% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 10% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 66% |
| Series A | 6 | 21% |
| Series B | 2 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 17 | 59% |
| United States | 2 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Robin Axon | Co-Founding & General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robin-axon |
| Andre Charoo | Entrepreneur-in-Residence | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andre-charoo |
| Chris Sukornyk | Venture Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-sukornyk |
| Duncan Hill | Co-Founding General Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/duncan-hill |
| Jeff Weshler | Investment Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-weshler |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Harry Howard | Harry Howard AI is a specialized AI agent platform built for the new generation of one-person companies. By combining large language models, agent orchestration, persistent project memory, and a secure cloud-native architecture, Harry Howard AI acts as a digital startup team for solo founders. The platform empowers entrepreneurs to validate ideas,plan products, build business assets, and manage operations inside a single, context-aware environment. | $3M | Seed | May 29, 2026 |  |
| SkyX | SkyX is an AI-powered Web3 venture platform designed to help projects build, launch, and scale through structured automation and community-driven growth systems.The platform combines AI-driven workflows with a gamified engagement model, enabling users to participate through tasks, referrals, and incentive-based mechanisms. This creates a scalableecosystem where user activity contributes to platform growth and development.SkyX supports project validation, structured launches, and ecosystem expansion by reducing operational complexity and improving onboarding efficiency. The platform enables founders to deploy projects, users to engage through participation models, and operators to manage scalable growth within a unified system.Operating at the intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain infrastructure, SkyX addresses inefficiencies in traditional incubation and launch processes by introducing automated workflows, community-driven participation, and streamlined execution models. | $3M | Seed | Apr 14, 2026 |  |
| Felix Health | Whether it's Sex, Skin, Hair or just plain Life, our mission is to reinvent Canadian healthcare for the modern human. It’s seamless, it’s simple, and it’s for you. | $13.4M | Series B | Apr 05, 2023 |  |
| Altrio | Through integrated data and insights, Altrio's Origin real estate investment software streamlines deal teams' work and improve their investments. It aims to develop software and services that help real estate investors and managers achieve their goals while also having fun at work. ‍ It creates technology solutions to help investors buildand manage better-performing portfolios, as well as managers access the right capital for projects more efficiently by reaching beyond their personal networks. | $6.2M | Series A | Jun 15, 2022 |  |
| Enso Connect | Enso Connect is a guest experience platform for the short-term rental industry that leverages smart home devices and AI communication. It connects to the property management software and assists in personalizing and monetizing interactions from inquiry to checkout and beyond.Enso Connect provides a unified inbox that consolidates text, Airbnb,Booking.com, Expedia, and Whatsapp messages, and can currently automate approximately 60% of guest-host communications, improving the guest experience and saving hosts time. It also employs AI to personalize guest experiences and trigger various recommendations, such as electric scooter rental suggestions or property reviews, only if the guest has had a positive experience. | $1.6M | Seed | Nov 10, 2021 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Disco | Build your live learning empire. One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities. | $4.8M | Seed | Mar 24, 2021 |  |
| Felix Health | Whether it's Sex, Skin, Hair or just plain Life, our mission is to reinvent Canadian healthcare for the modern human. It’s seamless, it’s simple, and it’s for you. | $7.9M | Series A | Feb 16, 2021 |  |
| Felix Health | Whether it's Sex, Skin, Hair or just plain Life, our mission is to reinvent Canadian healthcare for the modern human. It’s seamless, it’s simple, and it’s for you. | $1.8M | Seed | Dec 12, 2019 |  |
| Wisk Solutions | WISK is the most accurate and precise inventory solution! Cut the time spent counting inventory and compiling data. |  | Seed | Jul 01, 2019 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Golden Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Inovia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inovia-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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- [Extreme Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/extreme-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Mistral Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mistral-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Mantella Venture Partners invest in?

Mantella Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Mobile and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Mantella Venture Partners's check size?

Mantella Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $1M–$4M at Seed, $1.4M–$12M at Series A and $13M–$39M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mantella Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Mantella Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Mantella Venture Partners?

The team at Mantella Venture Partners includes Robin Axon (Co-Founding & General Partner), Andre Charoo (Entrepreneur-in-Residence) and Chris Sukornyk (Venture Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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