MANTIS

MANTIS is an early-stage venture capital fund that opportunistically invests in technology-enabled startups, primarily at the Seed and Series A stages. Its stated areas of interest span artificial intelligence and machine learning, fintech, cybersecurity, healthcare technology, consumer technology, gaming, and logistics, alongside media, entertainment and finance.

Alongside capital, the firm operates a founder support platform. This concentrates on practical assistance rather than passive ownership: go-to-market work, brand storytelling, introductions, and help securing early customers and candidates. The fund describes its approach as founder-obsessed and relationship-driven, with the operating premise that "the investment is the beginning of the relationship, not the end", and it positions itself as working alongside founders as they build.

MANTIS is a partnership between musicians Alex Pall and Drew Taggart of The Chainsmokers and venture capital professionals and entrepreneurs Milan Koch and Jeffrey Evans. The team brings experience spanning technology, media, entertainment and finance, and describes its contribution in terms of network and social capital as much as financial support.

Investment activity is described as opportunistic rather than thesis-bound, with a focus on technology-enabled companies at Seed and Series A. The firm does not publish fund size, team headcount or geographic footprint.