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The Manta Way

Investing in the world with strength and grace

A multidisciplinary approach to meaningful, enduring impact.

Manta rays are symbols of strength, freedom, and grace. Their open wings suggest a way of meeting complex challenges with clarity, patience, and an expansive view.

The Manta Way brings that posture to Aaron's work: investing in ideas, people, and communities with conviction and care.

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Involvement

A selective portfolio of work with social depth.

Best Buddies International Creating inclusion, one-to-one friendships, leadership development, and integrated employment for people with IDD. Pioneer Mind Connecting startup founders and executives with one-to-one mental performance coaching rooted in science. Africa Capital Venture Backing founders and building communities that drive lasting impact across Africa and beyond.

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Mental performance

Resilience, presence, and performance for founders.

The Manta Way gives space to the human side of building ambitious companies: the pressure, the clarity required, and the support systems that let leaders keep going with perspective.

About Aaron

Capital, community, and conviction across a long career.

As Managing Partner and CEO of Pinegrove Venture Partners, Aaron drives strategic partnerships and investments that support the global innovation economy. Over the past 25 years, he has raised and invested over $10B in leading venture capital funds and companies, developing industry-leading solutions across fund-of-funds, secondaries, bespoke credit solutions, and co-investments for technology, life sciences, and healthcare businesses.

As the first institutional investor in numerous top-tier first-time funds, Aaron is passionate about identifying and supporting breakthrough innovation and partnering with the next generation of leaders in the venture capital ecosystem.

Aaron Gershenberg built and led the global fund-of-funds, direct funds, secondaries, and debt investment business at Silicon Valley Bank / SVB Capital.

Over the course of his career at SVB, Aaron and his teams raised over $4.5B from institutional investors around the world and partnered with leading venture, growth equity, and credit managers.