{"id":236474,"date":"2025-07-16T20:19:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=236474"},"modified":"2025-07-17T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:19:53","slug":"the-chainsmokers-mantis-ventures-investment-firm-raises-100m-for-third-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/the-chainsmokers-mantis-ventures-investment-firm-raises-100m-for-third-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chainsmokers’ Mantis Ventures investment firm raises $100m for third fund"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mantis Ventures<\/a>, the venture capital firm co-founded by electronic music duo The Chainsmokers, has secured $100 million in funding commitments for its third fund.<\/p>\n

The new fund represents a 25%<\/b> increase from Mantis’s previous $80 million <\/b>vehicle, bringing the Los Angeles-based firm’s total assets under management to $225 million<\/b>, according to TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

Alex Pall<\/b> and Drew Taggart<\/b>, the artists behind hits like Closer,<\/i> Don\u2019t Let Me Down, <\/i>and Something Just Like This, <\/i>serve as general partners of Mantis alongside venture capital professionals and entrepreneurs Milan Koch <\/b>and Jeffrey Evans. <\/b>Evans founded the record label Buskin Records and the mobile communications platform TigerText, now known as TigerConnect.<\/p>\n

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The venture capital firm, founded in 2019, invests in Seed & Series A technology-enabled startups, according to its website. In 2020, Mantis secured<\/a> $35 million<\/b> in capital commitments for its debut fund.<\/p>\n

Mantis\u2019 portfolio incudes cybersecurity firm Chainguard Inc.<\/b>, sports betting platform Underdog Sports LLC<\/b>, and AI financial platform Rogo Technologies Inc.<\/b> The firm also backed Coinbase Global Inc. <\/b>before its public debut, Bloomberg <\/i>reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Its early investments include fitness app Fiton<\/b> and mortgage-lending startup LoanSnap<\/b><\/a>. Taggart told TechCrunch <\/i>in 2020: \u201cWhen we started eight years ago, our fans were primarily all in college. Now they are dealing with paying back their college loans, and they\u2019re probably applying to buy their first house, so a company like LoanSnap feels like one of those startups whose services our fans have grown into needing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are willing to do the things that other entertainers or athletes simply aren\u2019t.”<\/p>\n

Alex Pall, The Chainsmokers \/ Mantis Ventures<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Speaking to Bloomberg <\/i>recently, <\/i>Pall said: \u201cWe are willing to do the things that other entertainers or athletes simply aren\u2019t,\u201d adding that he is not just a name on the door, but a full-time investor. Pall said he hopes Mantis exists until he\u2019s \u201cold and wrinkly,\u201d and if it doesn\u2019t succeed, \u201cI need to look myself in the mirror and be able to say it wasn\u2019t because I didn\u2019t show up.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mantis recently opened a San Francisco office to complement its Los Angeles headquarters, with many recent investments concentrated in the Bay Area. Evans told Bloomberg <\/i>that \u201cthe Bay Area has gotten its shine back.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to their venture capital firm, Pall and Taggart have also been angel investors in companies like Ember<\/strong><\/a>, a Los Angeles-based company that produces temperature-controlled mugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new fund brings the Los Angeles-based firm’s total assets under management to $225 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":236512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[134425,134426,134424,85770],"class_list":["post-236474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alex-pall","tag-drew-taggart","tag-mantis-ventures","tag-the-chainsmokers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236474"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236513,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236474\/revisions\/236513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}