MANTIS Venture Capital
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
MANTIS Venture Capital is a VC fund in Los Angeles focused on Software and Information Technology. 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:
- 127
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 2%
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 more contact available
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$12M
- Series A
- $13M–$50M
- Series B
- $18M–$80M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 27 (21%)
- Information Technology 16 (13%)
- FinTech 14 (11%)
- Internet 13 (10%)
- Financial Services 13 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 37 (29%)
- Seed 36 (28%)
- Series B 18 (14%)
- Series C 6 (5%)
- Funding Round 5 (4%)
Country
- United States 62 (49%)
- Brazil 4 (3%)
- Pakistan 3 (2%)
- United Kingdom 3 (2%)
- India 2 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Pall
Producer, The Chainsmokers & Investment Partner
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Producer, The Chainsmokers & Investment Partner | Total investments: 21 | Find email | |
Drew Taggart
Producer, The Chainsmokers & Investment Partner
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Producer, The Chainsmokers & Investment Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Jeffrey Evans
Co-Founder & Partner
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Co-Founder & Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Milan Koch
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Sandstone
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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
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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
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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 | |
Rogo
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Rogodevelops an artificial intelligence platform designed specifically for financial institutions such as investment banks, private equity firms, and asset managers. The platform integrates with internal systems and external financial data sources to analyze large volumes of information, including filings, market data, and proprietary datasets, anddeliver structured outputs like financial models, reports, and presentations. It uses AI models and agent-based systems to automate workflows such as research, due diligence, and market analysis, enabling users to complete multi-step financial tasks within a single system. The company’s technology is built with input from professionals with backgrounds in finance and is tailored to reflect the workflows and requirements of high-finance environments. Its tools are used by financial professionals to reduce manual work, support decision-making, and streamline processes across transactions and portfolio management. | $160M / Series D / Apr 29, 2026 | |
Factory
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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. | $150M / Series C / Apr 16, 2026 | |
depthfirst
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Depthfirst is an applied AI lab focused on cybersecurity. We've built the General Security Intelligence layer that helps security teams detect, triage, and remediate critical vulnerabilities across their software and infrastructure. | $80M / Series B / Mar 31, 2026 | |
Doctronic
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Doctronic is the first D2C AI doctor working with human doctors in all 50 states in the US (and moving into other countries quickly). Get immediate AI diagnosis and then ask a human doctor to verify / act on that diagnosis if needed. | $40M / Series B / Mar 23, 2026 | |
Scanner.dev
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Scanner is a SIEM companion that enables teams to augment tools like Splunk, Datadog, Sumo Logic, and Elastic for high volume log data, saving up to 90% per log source. After directly indexing your data, teams can find IP addresses and other IOCs in petabytes of logs in seconds.Teams can also leverage features like dashboards, detections-as-code,threat intelligence, and an API to connect with Scanner for Splunk, Grafana, SOARs like Tines or Torq, our library of Jupyter Notebooks for advanced threat hunting, Slack, Jira, or anything else with a custom webhook. | $22M / Series A / Mar 10, 2026 | |
Monaco
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Monaco functions as a unified system of record, building total addressable market data, running outbound campaigns, capturing interactions, and managing pipeline activity within a single environment. It includes account databases, intent and signal tracking, sequencing tools, pipeline management, and call recording to support demand generationthrough conversion. Monaco automates account discovery, enrichment, and scoring to keep target markets current. Its onboarding process establishes TAM, configures sequences, overlays signals, and imports existing pipeline data from day one. | $25M / Series A / Feb 11, 2026 | |
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Project Omega
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Project Omega is a Rhode Island-based nuclear startup that converts spent nuclear fuel into compact, long-lasting batteries for military uses like wearables, sensors, and drones. | $12M / Seed / Feb 11, 2026 | |
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FAQ
What does MANTIS Venture Capital invest in?
MANTIS Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 127 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 $2M–$12M 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 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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