Mantis VC

“Alex's superpower, too, is he's the world's greatest haggler, and he'll just hassle people. Like, if you say you're like, yeah, we're interested in having you in this round, you're not gonna not hear from Alex once or twice a day until you, like, officially pa…”

“We've spoken to enough incredibly successful people over the last three months. That, like, everyone begins to contradict themselves. Funny way. You know, in the beginning, you're like, alright, alright, I'm thinking about this the right way, and then, like, t…”

“We actually are pretty bearish on investing in music tech companies, which I feel like we see probably most of them that are out there as of our profile, but we haven't made an investment in the music space yet.”

“Due to the size of our fund and the check size that we write, we're not leading rounds. Typically, we're not taking up the lion's share of a lot of these rounds.”

“This is a new space and there's a lot riding on this and it's very live or die for us to make this work.”

“Just narrowing our thesis to the point where like the investments we make, the businesses that we have access to, We'll have great synergy with all of the other things that we do and who we are as people.”

“So obviously there's the press element and things like that, but to us, it's a red flag when a company's like, hey, can you just like post us on social media?”