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investing @mantisvc

[Bloomberg @business]

Elon Musk received a regulatory greenlight to acquire startup Mesh, a company founded by former SpaceX engineers working on optical data center communication technology https://t.co/IU1fSE8H8e

[Rogo @RogoAI]

We’re excited to announce our $75 million Series C led by @sequoia, with participation from @jpmorgan, @WellsFargo, @ThriveCapital, @khoslaventures,@BoxGroup, Mantis VC, Positive Sum, Stonecroft Management & @_altcapital to build AI that makes the best financial professionals smarter, faster, and more ambitious.

There’s a long road ahead and we’re grateful to our clients, team, and investors for their partnership as we set out to transform finance. https://t.co/5uzTVhX3jK

[Luana Lopes Lara @luanalopeslara]

The future of news is here: market based, real-time, and accurate.

CNN 🤝 Kalshi

[Alex Pall @AlexPallNY]

I met @mansourtarek_ about 3 years ago at a dinner in NYC! Ben Liu told me this was one of the smartest hardest working guys around! Tarek told me about his vision and the challenges he faced but there was no doubt in my mind this guy was someone you wanted to support!

[Alex Pall @AlexPallNY]

Very proud of you @saveena_ for making the 30u30! You have absolutely murdered it for us as a firm and this honor is well deserved! Good call @Forbes

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

The world’s gone mad

[Factory @FactoryAI]

Software development is more than just coding.

Introducing Droids -- the world's first software development agents. 🤖

Starting today, Droids are available for general access.

Factory integrates with your entire engineering system (GitHub, Slack, Linear, Notion, Sentry) and serves that context to your Droids as they autonomously build production-ready software.

Factory is the first platform that allows you to work with agents: local + synchronous and remote + asynchronous.

[Gabriel Stengel @GabeStengel]

Today, I’m thrilled to announce @RogoAI's $50M Series B led by @ThriveCapital, joined by @JPMorganAM, Tiger Global, @patrick_oshag , and continued backing from @khoslaventures, @BoxGroup, @alley_corp, and others.

[Rory Garton-Smith @rory_builds]

Founder learnings part 10 - how to get world class email open rates in 5 easy steps!

6 months ago we knew nothing about email - now we send more than 100k emails per week and have maintained a 67% open rate for the last 3 months straight (industry standard is 18%) while holding sub 0.3% spam rate in postmaster.

Here's what I wish I'd known 6 months ago, all manual builds + no klaviyo! :

1️ - Mail warming actually matters way less than you think in 2025 - because your score is way more linked to the domain/IP combo than just the domain, so, if you're using a 3rd party mail warmer and then switch across to klaviyo or some other sending tool, it basically won't matter - you've lost the score rep you built on the warmer. This is why we roll our own.

2 - Every send should be transactional: As in - every email you send should be triggered based on user interactions within your ecosystem, no cold-sending.

Hitting their inbox at the exact moment they’re most likely to engage makes all the difference, put hooks all over your site/app/extension/anywhere else you can, watch for form entries, then trigger sends based on that - WAY better than blasting 100k out all at once from something like mailchimp.

3 - Pre-check for bounces – Sending to invalid emails hurts your sender reputation and increases spam filtering.

Use services that check if an email will bounce before you send it, so you’re only reaching valid inboxes. This keeps your list clean and improves long-term deliverability.

4 - Prune your cohorts – This one should be obvious but most email lists have dead weight that drag down performance.

Set up automated scripts to constantly remove unresponsive users and refine targeting based on engagement levels. The more dialed-in your segments are, the higher your open rates will be.

5 - Ramp sends REALLY slowly – There is no way around this. Even if your list is solid, blasting too many emails too fast will tank your deliverability, you have to be so slow and steady with this. Industry standards say 15% per day but we go slower and have done 8-10% on warmed domains to avoid spam filters.

A slow, steady ramp ensures you build sender trust and maximize inbox placement.

[Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak]

Bolt is one of the fastest growing products ever, but they almost shut down the company last summer.

New @ThePeelPod with Eric @ Bolt going inside their seven-year journey finding PMF. Great conversation around capital efficiency, grit, determination, and the future of software.

[Gabriel Stengel @GabeStengel]

Today, we’re thrilled to announce our $18.5M Series A led by @rabois at @khoslaventures, along with @jaltma, @ericschmidt, @mantisVC and many others.

https://t.co/1f8Sk4Fkmn

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Only in the Bay Area will you go to a nuclear fusion facility launch party and witness cybernetic artists leveraging bio signals and a robotic orchestra
☢️🏭🦾🎹🎻🎶

[sav @saveena_]

@law_and_rorder Epic.

[Can of Soup @canofsoup_inc]

How often do you think of the Roman Empire? All the time, apparently?

@saveena_ @treylayton3 @thereal___maddieobrien

[sav @saveena_]

@gaby_goldberg Yesssir

[sav @saveena_]

Ended tech week with a bang 🫢 @mantisVC

[Molly O’Shea @MollySOShea]

Shoutout to Mantis for exceeding all expectations for LA Tech Week’s close out party

..& what a ‘rockstar’ surprise 🤩

[THE CHAINSMOKERS @TheChainsmokers]

My hope is that in sharing some of the lessons we have learned through our experiences in building The Chainsmokers, JAJA, Kick the Habit, & Mantis Ventures, it will help other people achieve their goals & follow their passions...

Here is my first post: https://t.co/naIq88kvSh

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

New @TheChainsmokers video is wild.

It’s a banger and is made with generative AI art from @StabilityAI, which the Chainsmokers VC fund Mantis is an investor in!

So dope.

https://t.co/W7ZLeTUdEo

[sav @saveena_]

@snigdhasur till next time 🤠

[sav @saveena_]

@sharlene_g_ Loool this was hilarious to witness. Glad you made it tho