Mantella VP

Mantella Venture Partners is a $20m early stage fund that provides hands-on support to great founders building software companies in high growth markets.

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mlogo About MVP

Mantella Venture Partners is a venture capital partnership formed to invest in exceptional entrepreneurs, building market-altering mobile and Internet software businesses. MVP invests up to $500,000 at inception, with the ability to support subsequent rounds as required. We invest alone, or alongside other Read More

mlogo Our Process

Mantella Venture Partners does not follow the typical venture engagement process of meetings, pitches, and back office due diligence leading to an investment. MVP believes in engagement through involvement. Our typical process evolves through the following steps:

1. Evaluation through involvement. If we’re meeting Read More

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  • Companies

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    Unata

    Unata – Advancing Loyalty Technology Read More

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    SurfEasy

    Online Privacy
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    Shopcaster

    Discover what your city has in-store
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    Brave Commerce

    Mobile Commerce Platform: Acquired by Rogers March’2012
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    PushLife

    Mobile Commerce Platform: Acquired by Google April’2011 Read More

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    CrowdCare

    Keeping Android devices healthy
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    Flixel

    Capture a moment and bring it to life Read More

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    Chango

    Programatic RTB Marketing Platform Read More

    People

    Entrepreneurs Supporting Entrepreneurs.

    At Mantella Venture Partners we're entrepreneurs ourselves, so we understand where you've been and more importantly, where you've got to go - and we're building an ecosystem of expertise within our fund and our network to help you get there.

    Duncan Hill

    General Partner Duncan Hill

    Duncan is a founding General Partner at Mantella Venture Partners. Duncan previously served as an Entrepreneur[…]

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    Robin Axon

    General Partner Robin Axon

    Robin is a founding General Partner at Mantella Venture Partners. Robin was previously a partner at[…]

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    Russell Samuels

    Associate Russell Samuels

    Russell Samuels is an Associate at Mantella Venture Partners. Prior to joining Mantella Venture Partners[…]

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    Ted Anderson

    Fund Advisor, Managing GP VenturesWest Ted Anderson

    Ted Anderson joined Ventures West in 1996 and is responsible for the overall leadership and management[…]

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    Raymond Reddy

    Fund Advisor, Group PM at Google Raymond Reddy

    Ray currently leads a number of shopping & commerce efforts at Google. Prior to that Ray[…]

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    Chris Sukornyk

    Fund Advisor, CEO Chango Chris Sukornyk

    Prior to founding Chango, Chris Sukornyk founded or co-founded multiple tech startups in the digital media[…]

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    Globe and Mail Video: Venture fund brings West Coast style to Toronto office

    By Duncan Hill

    Get a look inside MantellaVP in this short video interview done by Katherine Scarrow at The Globe And Mail. Read More

    The 2nd Best Startup Launch Video

    By Russell Samuels

      In the early days of 2012, a small startup called Dollar Shave Club unleashed the greatest startup video of all time upon the unsuspecting Gillette wielding world.  The video was titled “Our Blades Are F***ing Great” and it masterfully … Read More

    Shopcastr Announces $1 Million Round of Financing

    By Duncan Hill

    Congrats Matt, Judy, Aron and the rest of the ShopCastr team on bringing together a great group of strategic investors to help push you towards global success! Read More

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    Jobs

    jobs_fixel Python Django Developer Flixel, Toronto
    jobs_surfeasy Windows/Mac C++ Developer SurfEasy, Toronto
    jobs_crowdcare Android Application Developer CrowdCare, Toronto
    jobs_chango Ad Optimization Manager Chango, Toronto
    jobs_chango Client Services Account Manager Chango, San Francisco
    jobs_chango Python Developer Chango, Toronto
    jobs_chango Senior Data Scientist Chango, Toronto
    jobs_chango Agile Project Manager Chango, Toronto

    Connect

    488 Wellington Street West
    Suite 304
    Toronto, Ontario M5V 1E3
    Canada

    info@mantellavp.com
    careers@mantellavp.com

    phone: +1.416.479.0779
    fax: +1.866.875.8338

    If you have a business you believe could be a good fit for Mantella Venture Partners, please read our Process page for details on how to contact us.