Mantis VC

Mantis VC is a partnership between Alex Pall and Drew Taggart, otherwise known as The Chainsmokers, and experienced Venture Capital professionals and entrepreneurs Milan Koch and Jeffrey Evans that invests opportunistically in early stage technology enabled startups.

We leverage our social capital to redefine how to support GTM, from branding and storytelling to warm introductions to closing customers and candidates. As creators of culture ourselves, we know how to build a product and create a community and narrative around it. Given our broad LP base, we can confidently say we are one degree of connection from most high-profile individuals and take pride in being the most helpful investors on the cap table.

Mantis VC has closed a $100M Fund III to strengthen its position as business-building partner of choice to early stage tech startups

Backed by LPs including Allocate, TriplePoint Capital and Summit Peak Investments, LLC, Fund III will invest $500,000 - $2 million in early-stage startups across cybersecurity, AI, frontier tech, data and cloud infrastructure, and healthtech.

Mantis Venture Capital VC has announced the close of its third fund at $100 million, which will back early-stage technology startups with exceptional founding teams across cybersecurity, healthtech, deeptech, AI and infrastructure. Founded in 2019, Mantis is led by General Partners Jeffrey Evans, Milan Koch, Alex Pall and Drew Taggart, along with partners Josh Klein and Macquarie Clark Clark, who together have raised $225 million across three funds and invested in over 170 startups through the firm.

The firm invests in Seed & Series A technology-enabled startups.

Portfolio: Additive, Factory, Nuon, Rogo.