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The Mantle Office Tour (Holiday Edition) just dropped 🎄

This edition features champagne sabering, budget gifts, and our head chef, Ivan Chen, sharing his hot take on whether mulled wine qualifies as soup.

Happy holidays from the Mantle team! 🥂

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Mantle Office Tour (Part 4) | Holiday Edition
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December 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This week on Mantle Mondays, Amar sat down with Mike Cooke, the co-founder and CEO of AmacaThera, a Toronto-based biotech company on a mission to combat the opioid crisis by revolutionizing post-operative pain management.

Watch the full episode ⤵️

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Mike Cooke (AmacaThera) | The Biotech Startup on a Mission to Solve the Opioid Crisis
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December 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Mark MacLeod has interviewed over 80 CEOs on The Startup CEO Podcast. He ran every transcript through NotebookLM to find the 10 core pillars of success.

The results? ⤵️
December 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"AI is no longer a future concept for family offices–it’s a present necessity."

We're excited to announce our strategic partnership with InfoGrate Wealth, a leading technology and operations services provider for family offices and private wealth organizations.

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Mantle Partners with InfoGrate to Accelerate AI Adoption in Family Offices and Private Wealth Management - Mantle Blog
Mantle and InfoGrate partner to bring AI-powered automation to family offices to eliminate manual workflows and gain real-time portfolio intelligence.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Your complete investment picture—private and public—now lives in one platform, Mantle Portal. The same infrastructure that brings order to your private investments now extends across your entire portfolio.

One source of truth. One foundation for intelligence.

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Private Meets Public: The Future of Unified Portfolio Management
Discover how leading family offices and institutional investors are breaking down silos between private and public markets with unified portfolio management.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Most founders obsess over product perfection or raising another round.

But the CEOs who win? They realize distribution is the game.

Revenue is the magnet that attracts everything else—capital, ambitious talent, and customers who want to back a winner.
December 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
George Babu, co-founder of Aire Labs, on what changed in his approach to hiring:

"This is going to be a long journey. I want to work with people I enjoy working with, and I will prioritize that."
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"There's no bullshitting in early-stage startups. Your clock is running out."

On this week's episode of Mantle Mondays, George Babu (co-founder of Aire Labs) explains why he keeps coming back to startups.

🔗 Full episode linked below
December 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
We're thrilled to be named a TechTO Rocketship for 2025 🚀

It's an honor to be recognized alongside incredible companies—teams that are redefining what's possible.

To our team, investors, and customers: this momentum is because of you. Thank you for believing in the mission.
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Pay for Mantle with your Loop card → get $120 back 💳

Two powerful tools working together to simplify your finance stack and boost your budget.

Details below. T&Cs apply.
December 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We're excited to welcome two new full-timers to the team! 🎉

DH crushed it during his co-op with us from earlier this year, so we knew we had to bring him back full-time.

Barobi is joining us from IBM, bringing serious expertise and energy to the team.

DH and Barobi—welcome (back) to Mantle!
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Steven Trieu, CFO at Chamath Palihapitiya's 8090 Solutions, has tried everything—lawyers, hybrid models, and other cap table platforms.

His verdict? "Mantle was the best fit for us."

Why? Because early-stage companies don't need to overcomplicate or overpay for equity management.
November 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Mantle now integrates with Rippling 🎉

Employee data syncs automatically in real-time. Update someone in Rippling → instantly ready for equity grants in Mantle.

✅ Zero manual entry
✅ SSO with Rippling
✅ No spreadsheet gymnastics

Equity admin that scales with your team.

Available now.
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“Raise just enough money so you feel like you’re under pressure.”

That was Steven Trieu's (CFO of 8090 Solutions/Social Capital) advice when we asked how founders should think about fundraising.

Steve’s framework is simple: Raise enough oxygen to reach your next meaningful milestone, but no more.
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Outsite's co-founder, Stijn Beauprez, on why founders should stop using Excel to manage their cap tables.
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Big news - Mantle Portal is featured in Forbes’ 2025 Family Office Software Roundup! 🎉

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The 2025 Family Office Software Roundup
The family office technology keeps developing. Explore key trends, platform categories, and how AI, integration, and execution now define the 2025 landscape.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
2015: Instacart was worth $2B, Forbes Magazine called it “America’s most promising company" — until one brutal board meeting stopped it cold.

Nilam Ganenthiran says that reality check was the best thing that ever happened.

👉 “You can’t punt building a real business forever.”
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“Will I be happy making this person a ton of money?”

That’s the question Nilam Ganenthiran (ex-President of Instacart, now building Beacon Software) asks before taking any investor’s money.

If you choose investors you respect, it makes all the hard moments a lot easier.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
From grocery cashier → Instacart President → now building Beacon Software

That’s the journey of Nilam Ganenthiran.

Amar Varma sat down with him for a real conversation about what he’s learned along the way: the wins, the wake-up calls, and the gut decisions that shaped it all.
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From Grocery Cashier to Instacart President | Nilam Ganenthiran's Journey
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November 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Our Halloween office tour is here 🎃

This time:
- Amit's mixology debut (Dark & Stormys, anyone?)
- Derek's triumphant return and suspicious AI alliances
- We finally answer the age-old question: "Is a taco a sandwich?"
October 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Jays have the Dodgers.
We’ve got 11 other legaltech innovators.

Different field, same mission: win it all ⚾️

We’re bringing our best pitch to HeyCounsel's Demo Day, and we need your votes!

Register and vote for Mantle next Wednesday → heycounsel.com/demoday
October 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Managing ownership is one thing. Moving money behind it is another.

Private companies will soon be able to raise capital, execute stock options, and distribute dividends—all from Mantle, powered by Dream Payments.

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Mantle’s Integration with Dream Payments - Mantle Blog
Today, we’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Dream Payments, the embedded and programmable payments company powering some of North America’s largest financial institutions. Together, we’re t...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM