Mantis Venture Capital

🚀 Announcing PledgeAI – The First AI for Fundraising! 🌟 Imagine the possibilities to support any cause you care about. Create your perfect campaign in under a minute, including: 💜 Free Fundraiser Page 😍 Optimized Donor Copy 📸 3 Stunning Campaign Images 🚀 Ready-to-Launch Social Assets The world needs us now more than ever, so we made it easy for anyone to make a difference with PledgeAI. Try PledgeAI with only 1 click: https://lnkd.in/gkBKV4cX Then tag us for a chance to win! 💸 Pledge will randomly pick 10 fundraisers using AI and surprise them with a $100 boost. Winners revealed on Monday 8/12 at 12 PM PT on @pledgetodogood's IG stories. 🌟 #PledgeAI #FundraisingRevolution #Nonprofits #AIForGood #SocialImpact #Innovation

I’m excited to announce a new type of app — Hero, the first Daily Assistant, on iPhone  – It’s invite-only, but first people to download can use the invite-code “Brad” – Hero is the first Daily Assistant, to run your daily life all in one place. Instead of jumping between apps, manually getting things done, and texting back and forth to coordinate, now you can: 1) Run your life in one place – Hero seamlessly integrates everything you need in one place: your calendars, weather, reminders, notes, grocery ordering, and search. All powered by Google Calendar, Outlook,  Weather, Reminders, Instacart, Perplexity, and more. 2) Get things done fast with voice – Hero has the first voice-guided UX that updates the screen as you speak. So now you can get things done far faster, and edit anything it gets wrong. 3) Coordinate instantly – Instead of texting back and forth, now you can see when your family and friends are free, send reminders by saying their name, and comment directly on reminders and notes. We created Hero to help busy people like you –working professionals, couples, and parents– run their lives. And we realized the only way to do that was to create a new way to live -- no more checking multiple apps, no more multi-step processes, no more back and forth coordinating. Try it now on iPhone : apple.co/3WAUq9A Input code, or request invite (earliest ppl to download can use “Brad”)

I am very happy to share that we have raised $20M in additional investment led by 01 Advisors, a venture and advisory firm helmed by former Facebook CRO David Fischer, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, and former Twitter COO Adam Bain. This round was also joined by Insight Partners, Baseline Ventures, Haystack, Octave Ventures, Mantis Venture Capital, Gokul Rajaram and Rahul Mehta. Having the right people is the most important aspect of growing a business and I couldn’t feel better about partnering with this incredible group. Every day, we push ourselves to the limit to help our customers make better decisions and grow their businesses efficiently. This new capital enables us to create more value and bring to life a new portfolio of decision science tools that will transform how business decisions are made. As excited as I am today, I am most looking forward to the future and what we’ll be able to build with and for our partners. Causal inference is our passion and we are laser-focused on democratizing access to these tools. If you’re interested in joining us or learning more, please check out the press release below. https://lnkd.in/gTErne4N  

🚨 invite for anyone working with creators 🚨 we’re doing something for the first time… connecting brands and marketers with the best creators from Beacons - we now have over 5 million creators on the platform! we’re partnering with brands and agencies who want to work with creators to promote their events and campaigns. we’ll help you 🔍 find ✅ verify 📧 contact 🤝 & connect with the right creators to drive awareness for your project. our team will run everything from sourcing and discovery to outreach—just let us know what your goals and requirements are, and we’ll take it from there. (btw, this is free. seriously, no catch.) comment your email down below if you want to learn more, or tag someone else who might be interested too!

☀️ ‘Tis the sea-son! 🌊 We’re excited to announce our Series Sea (C) round led by Redpoint, Lightspeed, and IVP. Are you squidding me?! 🤯🐙 We’ve achieved so much in our 2.5+ year journey so far: 🤝 Customers: Partnered with the world’s leading enterprise, security, and technology companies like Anduril Industries, Appian Corporation, Checkmarx, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Snowflake, Wiz, & more to lock down supply chains everywhere with Chainguard Images! 💜 Doubled the size of our Chainguardian team - check our our careers page to join in on the fun. 🖼️ Images: Built an expansive inventory of secure container images that continues growing with our new Chainguard AI Images, a suite of CPU and GPU-enabled images, including PyTorch, Conda, and Kafka! We know we would not be here without our investors, customers, employees, and community supporters for helping us get to this milestone. Cheers to a bright future ahead as we continue to work together to be the safe source for open source. 💜 Hear from our Sea-E-O, Dan Lorenc: https://lnkd.in/epCpAFkT

Today we announced our $372MM Series D financing, led by Andreessen Horowitz with major participation from Sanofi. Existing investors also joined this round, including Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, Lachy Groom, and Emerson Collective, along with new investors SV Angel Growth and FPV Ventures and others. At Formation Bio, we are building the pharma company of the future, where human expertise and AI collaborate seamlessly to make drug development and clinical trials dramatically more efficient. As AI accelerates drug discovery, generating more promising candidate drugs than ever before, we believe the most consequential bottleneck to bringing more medicines to patients is the staggering cost and time needed for drug development and clinical trials. By designing and developing AI specifically tailored for drug development, we can increase the total number of candidate drugs that can progress through development, and ultimately deliver more new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently. We are proud to partner with best-in-class investors and advisors from both pharma and tech backgrounds along the way. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/et6uKzGV #pharma #biotech #funding #fundraise #tech #ai #drugdevelopment

in August 2023, Beacons published the first ever Top Creator Agencies List showcasing the leaders in creator management globally. today, we’re excited to publish our updated and revamped list: Top Creator Agencies of 2024. plus, we surveyed these top 240+ agencies to learn more about them and put together a snapshot of the creator talent industry today 📸 (which has already grown so much since last year, when we featured 125 agencies). check out the link in the comments for the list and the full report! here's a sneak peek in the image below - we broke down the players in the influencer marketing ecosystem to show how they interact and where creator-manager dynamics fit in 👀 it’s important context for why the agencies on the list stand out for their outstanding work. this year’s top agencies list has more categories ✅, more info on each agency✏️, and more insight into how the industry is growing💡. most importantly, we wanted to put the spotlight on what makes each of these talent agencies unique and valuable: the creators they manage and the testimonials of those who work with them. the agencies featured in the Top Creator Agencies List of 2024 are a group that includes young and hungry agencies alongside powerhouse, established agencies like UTA, WME, and Select Management group. they range in size from teams of 1 to 100+, and work with household names like #nike, #amazon, and #netflix. looking ahead, we believe that opportunities for creators are only going to continue to grow and that managers will play an important role in that—tag your favorite manager or agency and let us know what you think!

Had the opportunity to sit down with Ryan Roslansky at LinkedIn, and share a few thoughts about how I shaped my career, learned to be an “investor,” and reluctantly accepted that my NBA aspirations would never materialize. If you could only see my floater… 🏀 Super cool experience overall! Hopefully some of these insights are useful. Ultimately, it’s the same takeaway as always - make time for what you’re passionate about, and more importantly, stay committed. Success doesn’t look the same for everyone, the risks and rewards play out differently, as does the timing. But regardless, you own your story. When I’m not sleeping, I’m working, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Thanks again to Ryan for including me in this series!

Selling software has been a slog. A market downturn put the spotlight on how inefficient everyone’s GTM engines really are. Revenue leaders across sales, marketing, and CS are struggling to hit their targets and worry that reps are focusing on the wrong things instead of being strategic. How did we get here? Over-investment in more instead of better. More data, more point solutions, more playbooks - never better. More doesn’t equal growth. More equals:  1/ Bad data 2/ Disjointed prospecting workflows 3/ Lack of consistency across reps. The solution? Leaders need better data and smarter playbooks, all powered by AI. Leaders want: 1/ Accurate data & intent signals to drive smarter playbooks 2/ Consolidated workflows in a single platform 3/ Visibility to drive rep repeatability So, we’re excited to launch the next chapter of Pocus’ platform. A first-of-its-kind unified experience to power the future of GTM. Instead of just powering Product-Led Sales Playbooks, we’re powering ALL go-to-market Playbooks. We’re still turning data into revenue, but now ALL data (not just product usage)... now made even better with the power of AI. I’m linking a blog in the comments to share more about this journey to the next chapter of Pocus. And as always, thank you to our incredible customers like Asana, Canva, monday.com, Miro, LaunchDarkly, Webflow, and more who shaped these insights and provided feedback on roadmaps, early designs, and beta features!