Jeffrey Evans built and led companies across vastly different industries—scaling a staffing firm to $100M revenue, co-founding TigerText as an early disappearing messages company, and founding a record label that developed Grammy-nominated artist Andra Day—before becoming a venture investor. At MANTIS Venture Capital, he personally architected the fund's social capital plus institutional rigor model, ensuring celebrity partners The Chainsmokers operate as full venture partners who sit on investment committees and help close candidate hires rather than serving as typical celebrity endorsers. Jeffrey Evans built and led companies across vastly different industries—scaling a staffing firm to $100M revenue, co-founding TigerText as an early disappearing messages company, and founding a record label that developed Grammy-nominated artist Andra Day—before becoming a venture investor. At MANTIS Venture Capital, he personally architected the fund's social capital plus institutional rigor model, ensuring celebrity partners The Chainsmokers operate as full venture partners who sit on investment committees and help close candidate hires rather than serving as typical celebrity endorsers.