MANTIS Venture Capital
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
MANTIS Venture Capital is a VC fund in Los Angeles focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Mantis is an early-stage fund that invests in consumer tech, media/entertainment, and fintech companies. Mantis VC is a partnership between The Chainsmokers and experienced Venture Capital professionals and entrepreneurs Milan Koch and Jeffrey Evans that focuses on consumer technologies in the areas of Media and Entertainment, Fintech, andHealth and Wellness.Founded in 2019, Mantis VC is based in Los Angeles, California.
- Total investments:
- 134
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 2%
- Fund size:
- $100M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries MANTIS Venture Capital invests in
Stages MANTIS Venture Capital invests in
Countries MANTIS Venture Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.5M–$17M
- Series A
- $13M–$50M
- Series B
- $18M–$80M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 30 (22%)
- Artificial Intelligence 22 (16%)
- Financial Services 17 (13%)
- FinTech 16 (12%)
- Internet 14 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 43 (32%)
- Seed 40 (30%)
- Series B 21 (16%)
- Series C 7 (5%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (3%)
Country
- United States 70 (52%)
- Brazil 4 (3%)
- United Kingdom 4 (3%)
- Pakistan 3 (2%)
- India 2 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Pall
Producer, The Chainsmokers & Investment Partner
|
Producer, The Chainsmokers & Investment Partner | Total investments: 21 | Find email | |
Drew Taggart
Producer, The Chainsmokers & Investment Partner
|
Producer, The Chainsmokers & Investment Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Jeffrey Evans
Co-Founder & Partner
|
Co-Founder & Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Milan Koch
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Pilgrim
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Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity. | $25M / Seed / Sep 23, 2026 | |
| Factory functions within integrated development environments, command line interfaces, and continuous integration pipelines. The technology allows for the delegation of technical tasks, including code refactors, system migrations, and incident responses. These digital agents also perform automated code reviews and facilitate the maintenance ofbuilds during the development process. Integration extends to communication platforms and project management software, allowing users to trigger actions from various interfaces. The system supports the parallelization of agents to manage software updates and maintenance across multiple operating systems. | $200M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 15, 2026 | ||
| The next great music platform won’t look like Spotify or Ableton. That’s the bet.A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a “music (software) label” – we release playful music products built on a core belief: music is a verb – something you do, not passively stream. We're on a mission to pull people into a deeper relationship with music, and we'rebuilding the next great consumer music app to do it.We’re a small but mighty team of creative technologists, assembled by Máuhan M Zonoozy (ex-Head of Innovation at Spotify, 2x exits), and backed by investors who uniquely get it, including NFX, Mantis, Quiet Capital, Collaborative Fund, Gold House, BoxGroup, SV Angel, RRE, and others. $9M+ raised | $5.5M / Pre-Seed / Sep 14, 2026 | ||
| Voya Energy is an energy management company that has developed technology to transform high-energy recycled metals into a safe fuel. | $35M / Series A / Aug 26, 2026 | ||
| Stability AI is an artificial intelligence-driven visual art startup that designs and implements open AI tools. The company focuses on creating open models for various media types, including image, video, 3D, and audio, with applications also targeting enterprise-level needs. Stability AI fosters a vibrant community involving experts and partnersworldwide, enhancing collaboration in developing AI tools. | $76M / Series B / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Asymm is an aerospace company that develops radar and sensing systems for environmental awareness and detection. | $51M / Seed / Aug 19, 2026 | ||
| Neros Technologies is a defense technology company specializing in the development and manufacturing of advanced unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The Neros Archer, the company's flagship product, is a high-performance, long-range First-Person View (FPV) drone certified by BlueUAS. Designed for large-scale deployment, it is optimized forlong-range missions with resistance to electronic warfare and can carry a 2 kg (approximately 4.5 lbs) payload over a distance of 20 kilometers. | $250M / Series C / Aug 11, 2026 | ||
| Sandstone is the platform for AI-native legal departments. Sandstone is built by a team of lawyers, legal operations, and tech experts who understand that efficiency is not just about speed, but also about context. | $30M / Series A / Jun 09, 2026 | ||
| Pogo enables people to earn money and save on shopping, finances, and more by unlocking the power of their data. Pogo allows users to take control of their data and how they monetize it, as well as to be compensated when their data is used for market research and personalized advertising. It pushes recommendations based on the data users choose tolink with the app, which users can act on in a few clicks. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 09, 2026 | ||
| EDGE Markets provides financial infrastructure designed for trading, gaming, and other alternative financial markets, supporting both institutional and consumer participants. The company offers banking, payment, settlement, and capital movement solutions tailored for environments that require high-frequency, real-time transactions. Its platformincludes products such as EDGE Connect, a private payments and settlement network, and EDGE Pro, a banking platform for market makers and institutional investors operating in regulated markets. EDGE Markets also develops specialized debit and banking services intended to facilitate deposits, withdrawals, liquidity management, and transaction tracking while incorporating compliance and responsible-use controls. Through its integrated financial infrastructure, the company aims to improve the efficiency of payments, settlements, and capital flows across gaming, prediction, crypto, and trading ecosystems. | $29.2M / Series A / Jun 08, 2026 | ||
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FAQ
What does MANTIS Venture Capital invest in?
MANTIS Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 134 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is MANTIS Venture Capital's check size?
MANTIS Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$17M at Seed, $13M–$50M at Series A and $18M–$80M 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 MANTIS Venture Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at MANTIS Venture Capital?
The team at MANTIS Venture Capital includes Alex Pall (Producer, The Chainsmokers & Investment Partner), Drew Taggart (Producer, The Chainsmokers & Investment Partner) and Jeffrey Evans (Co-Founder & Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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