Jeffrey Evans built and led companies across vastly different industries—scaling a staffing firm to $100M revenue, co-founding TigerText as an early disappearing messages company, and founding a record label that developed Grammy-nominated artist Andra Day—before becoming a venture investor. At MANTIS Venture Capital, he personally architected the fund's social capital plus institutional rigor model, ensuring celebrity partners The Chainsmokers operate as full venture partners who sit on investment committees and help close candidate hires rather than serving as typical celebrity endorsers.
About their Fund
MANTIS Venture Capital
Sectors
Fintech, Web3 / Crypto, AI, Health, Gaming / VR
Rounds
Seed - Series B+
Avg Check Size
$500K - $10M
Notable Investments
MANTIS Venture Capital is a venture fund cofounded by The Chainsmokers that focuses on B2B and deeply technical startups like cybersecurity and AI infrastructure, converting the duo's Fortune 500 performance relationships into warm customer introductions for portfolio companies. The fund operates with institutional rigor and professional investor-operators while maintaining an aggressively founder-obsessed service model, attracting institutional LPs who validated their approach of combining cultural connectivity with disciplined underwriting.
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