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    Mantis VC

    Santa Monica, California, United StatesFounded 2019

    Mantis VC primarily invests in Seed and Series A technology-enabled startups, with a focus on emerging industries such as AI applications, cloud & data infrastructure, cybersecurity, gaming, and healthtech. Their strategy emphasizes being "founder-obsessed" and leveraging their extensive network and operational expertise to provide significant value beyond capital, aiming to be highly engaged and helpful partners to their portfolio companies.

    35% of their portfolio is in Cybersecurity. Deal activity decreased year-over-year (3 deals in the last 12 months vs 7 prior). Their most common stage is series-a (45% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $34.4M (across 19 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    20

    Fund Size

    $225M

    Top Stage

    Series A

    Last 12 Mo

    3

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    20 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    depthfirst logodepthfirstSeries A$40MJan 2026
    Doctronic logoDoctronicSeries A$20MSep 2025
    Zip Security logoZip SecuritySeries A$13.5MJul 2025
    incident.io logoincident.ioSeries B$62MApr 2025
    Edera logoEderaSeries A$15MFeb 2025
    Kaya AI logoKaya AIPre-Seed$5.3MJan 2025
    Nuon Inc. logoNuon Inc.Series A$16.5MDec 2024
    Rogo logoRogoSeries A$18.5MOct 2024
    Cc/sideSeed$6MSep 2024
    Chainguard logoChainguardSeries C$140MJul 2024
    Certa logoCertaSeries B$35MSep 2023
    Checkmate logoCheckmateSeries A$15MMay 2023
    PPriceOyeSeedAug 2022
    incident.io logoincident.ioSeries A$28.7MJul 2022
    Lightning AI logoLightning AISeries B$40MJun 2022
    FitOn logoFitOnSeries C$40MFeb 2022
    Outer logoOuterSeries B$50MSep 2021
    Knowde logoKnowdeSeries B$72MAug 2021
    Popshop Live logoPopshop LiveSeries A$20MJul 2021
    Popmenu logoPopmenuSeries B$17MOct 2020

    Top Co-Investors

    Accel2 shared
    SV Angel2 shared
    TQ Ventures2 shared
    Fin Capital1 shared
    Vertex Growth Fund1 shared
    Tru Arrow1 shared
    Goat Capital1 shared
    Ballistic Ventures1 shared

    Last updated: 12 April 2026