Milan Koch

Founding Partner

2019 - Current

Mantis VC is a partnership between Alex Pall and Drew Taggart, otherwise known as The Chainsmokers, and experienced Venture Capital professionals and entrepreneurs Milan Koch and Jeffrey Evans that invests opportunistically in early-stage technology-enabled startups. By combining the knowledge of our 100+ prolific industry leaders as limited partners and our deep understanding and influence on a wide variety of markets, Mantis pursues the most disruptive and defensible early-stage companies that adopt emerging technologies. We seek to invest in companies that incubate positive change in the world at large.

Mentor

2016 - 2020

Nomadic Mentors is a highly selective group of founders and innovators who have raised over $2 billion in Venture Capital in total. Mentors are traveling to developing ecosystems to share their knowledge.

Business Owner

2017 - 2020

Managing Director, Accelerators

2014 - 2017

I designed and managed the AngelHack HACKcelerator Program, a mentorship-driven pre-accelerator program that pushes technical founding teams from concept to MVP with early traction in 12 weeks. Recent Success Stories: - Earny.co: $1.3MM Seed + Accepted into ScienceInc in May 2016 - Testlio: $6.25MM Series A in April 2016 - Wrappup2015: $750k overcommitted Seed Round in March 2016 - SocialCapital: Accepted into TechStars Kansas, $150k Seed in February 2016 - Testlio: $6.25MM Series A in April 2016 - Airpost.io: Acquired by BOX in February 2015 - Osper: Raised $10MM in funding in Jun 2014 - Appetas: Acquired by Google in May 2014 - Slick Login: Acquired by Google in Feb 2014 Success Statistics: - 110 startups created - 45% of active startups raise funding - 25% of active statups get accepted into later stage accelerator - 3 Acquisitions (to Google & BOX) I also design and manage Accelerators / Incubation Initiatives for Fortune500 companies such as CapitalOne and UBS amongst others by leveraging my curriculum and network.

Venture Partner

2013 - 2017

Base Ventrues, founded by Erik Moore, is a seed-stage fund investing in technology companies. Erik Moore is the founder and Managing Director of Base Ventures and was a seed investor in Zappos.com which was sold to Amazon for $1.2b and Agencourt Biosciences which was sold to Beckman Coulter for $270mm. Recent Success Stories from Current Portfolio: Zappos - Acquired by Amazon SocialCam - Acquired by Autodesk Plangrid - Acquired by Autodesk Appstores - Acquired by inMobi Agencourt Bioscience - Acquired by Beckman Coulter Genomics APG - Acquired by Beckman Coulter Genomics Grep Data - Acquired by 6th Sense Analytics

Advisory Board Member

2016 - 2017

Judge

2016 - 2017

Parallel18 is an economic development initiative that attracts early stage, high-impact startups that can scale from Puerto Rico to global communities, beyond the island, including Mainland US, Latin America, and Europe. The goal of the program is to position Puerto Rico’s as a unique gateway to scale globally. We have the support of the Puerto Rico Science and Technology Trust, the Department of Economic Development and Commerce and the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company.

Guest Speaker

2016 - 2016

Mentor

2015 - 2016

Gaza Sky Geeks is the first and only startup accelerator in Gaza, run by Mercy Corps and was launched with support from Google in 2011. Our mission is to spark awareness of startups in Gaza. We conduct active outreach, build a vibrant community that nurtures innovation, and connect top teams to global resources. We aim to transform Gaza’s most talented youth into the Middle East’s business leaders and realize Gaza’s potential as a startup hub.

Head of Startup Garage

2013 - 2015

APPNATION was the first global conference and exposition to focus exclusively on the broader app economy and has now produced / co-produced eleven conferences and events worldwide to-date in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dubai, and Barcelona. APPNATION focuses on the key business issues across the burgeoning app ecosystem including discovery, monetization, distribution, and business development / financing. ● Planning of the emerging technology area at APPNATION Conference ● Sourcing of startups: Outreach leading incubators, accelerators and universities by leveraging existing contacts and developing new relationships ● Managing application process: Setting of screening-criteria and reviewing submissions ● Increasing engagement between speakers and startups by introducing startups to relevant executives and managing speaker-office-hours