Funders
Robin Axon is a Founding General Partner at Mantella Venture Partners. He currently serves on the board of Brave Commerce, Unata and HipSell, an until their acquisition by Google in Apr’11 served on the board of Pushlife. Prior to founding Mantella Venture Partners, Robin was a partner at Ventures West where he was a part [...]
Duncan is a Founding General Partner at Mantella Venture Partners. He currently serves on the board of Chango, SurfEasy, Brave Commerce and HipSell, and until their acquisition by Google in Apr’11 was an Executive Investor at PushLife. Duncan also serves on the advisory boards at ServiceMesh, Cirba, and Embotics. He previously served as an Entrepreneur [...]
Russell Samuels is an Associate at Mantella Venture Partners. Prior to joining Mantella Venture Partners in July 2011, Russell spent 2 years as a Private Equity Analyst at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (“CPPIB”). At CPPIB Russell worked in three of the investment groups: Infrastructure, Funds & Secondaries and Principal Investing. Prior work experience includes [...]
Jillian Williams is a PR and Communications Coordinator at Mantella Venture Partners. Prior to joining Mantella Venture Partners, Jillian served as Editor of Thirsty? San Francisco at Hungry City Guides. She has also worked with the Publicity team at Universal Music Group in New York City and Los Angeles. Jillian holds a Bachelor of Arts [...]
Founders
Ray brings a rare blend of business and technology experience from his previous role in Corporate Development at RIM where he negotiated M&A deals and led venture investments in early stage technology. Ray was involved in a number of strategic initiatives and has deep background in the mobile media space. Ray holds a BMath in [...]
Chris Sukornyk has founded 4 other technology companies over the past 12 years and has generated a combined shareholder value in excess of 80 million. Chris co-founded The X-Stream Network, which became Europe’s fastest growing Free ISP. X-Stream was sold in March 2000 to LibertySurf for US $75 Million. More recently, he co-found Bubbleshare, a [...]
