# Armando Mann

> Armando Mann is a seed investor at RingCentral Events (Palo Alto) backing Software and Analytics. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [RingCentral Events](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hopin-8ff6)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/armandomann
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/armandomann
- Website: http://salesforce.com

Armando Mann is a seed investor at RingCentral Events in Palo Alto focused on Software and Analytics. Armando Mann is the President & Board Member at Hopin. Armando Mann attended Harvard Business School.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$4.9M |
| Series A | $4M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 73% |
| Analytics | 3 | 27% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 27% |
| SaaS | 2 | 18% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 18% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 64% |
| Series A | 2 | 18% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 82% |
| France | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Celest Science | Celest Science is a combination of climate science and machine learning to improve the prediction and understanding of extreme weather events. | $2.3M | Seed | Apr 22, 2025 |  |
| Reduct | Reduct is an AI-powered cloud video platform that aims to allow for richer human communication. The company is led by Prabhas Pokharel and Robert Ochshor, based in San Francisco. | $4M | Seed | Feb 11, 2021 |  |
| Fireflies.ai | Fireflies works across all the major video-conferencing platforms including Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, etc. Search your meetings and have your meeting data automatically populated inside apps like Salesforce, Slack, and Dropbox.Fireflies.ai was founded in 2016 by Krish Ramineni and Sam Udotong and is based in San Francisco,California, United States. | $4.9M | Seed | Oct 28, 2019 |  |
| The Podcast App | The Podcast App is an audio platform that helps millions of people in their pursuit of happiness. Under one roof, we bring the best and most powerful podcasts, audiobooks, and meditations from leading minds and experts around the world. |  | Seed | Jan 04, 2018 |  |
| ScopeAI | ScopeAI automates the process of communicating user insights to product and operation teams. The product leverages natural language processing (a form of AI) to extract insights from customer conversations. It integrates with existing support channels such as Zendesk, Intercom, Desk.com (salesforce) to automatically tag and analyze conversationsfor trends in customer feedback. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 01, 2018 |  |
| Nylas | Nylas provides an API platform that enables developers to quickly and securely access and process user data from any email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world. The solution allows developers to integrate complex, unstructured communications data into their applications in days, providing secure pre-built integrations that are SOC 2certified, GDPR compliant, Privacy Shield certified, and HIPAA and FINRA-ready. | $4M | Series A | Dec 20, 2017 |  |
| Clockwise | Clockwise is the solution to the modern workday. It’s a time orchestration platform that brings much needed flexibility to our schedules, using AI to better balance heads down time and time spent working together.Think of it as a new way of working — protecting the time we need most and preventing burnout. Entire team schedules come together inharmony.Personal time is dedicated to focus each day. And we’re present in every meeting knowing that our schedules respect the time we need to ourselves. With Clockwise, our workdays finally start to work for us. | $2.1M | Seed | Apr 25, 2017 |  |
| Knotch | Knotch is the content intelligence platform for brands. We pair performance data with consumer sentiment in real time to help marketers plan, measure, optimize and benchmark. Information is the key to growth, and Knotch is committed to enhancing your content efforts across owned and paid strategies. | $10M | Series A | Jan 01, 2016 |  |
| Split Software | Split Software is a feature delivery platform that builds better software for engineering teams to build impactful products. Its feature delivery platform pairs the speed and reliability of feature flags with data to measure the impact of every feature. Engineering teams at Twilio, Salesforce, and WePay use Split to reduce software developmentcycle time, mitigate release risk, and create a data-driven culture to maximize impact. Founded in 2015, Split is based in Redwood City, California with offices in Boston and Argentina. It is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel Partners, and Harmony Partners. | $1.8M | Seed | Dec 01, 2015 |  |
| Nylas | Nylas provides an API platform that enables developers to quickly and securely access and process user data from any email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world. The solution allows developers to integrate complex, unstructured communications data into their applications in days, providing secure pre-built integrations that are SOC 2certified, GDPR compliant, Privacy Shield certified, and HIPAA and FINRA-ready. | $8M | Series A | Jan 27, 2015 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Formation 8](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/formation8) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [HPE Aruba Networking](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aruba-networks) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About RingCentral Events

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

RingCentral Events is a platform for hosting and managing virtual, hybrid, and in-person events. The service supports a variety of use cases including conferences, webinars, job fairs, and community meetups. It enables users to create interactive experiences with features such as video streaming, audience engagement tools, and event analytics.RingCentral Events integrates with other RingCentral communication tools and third-party platforms to streamline event setup and execution. The platform is designed to support events at different scales, from small gatherings to large, multi-session conferences.Hopin rebranded to RingCentral Events following its acquisition by RingCentral in August 2023, with the rebranding finalized by October 2023.

5 contacts available at RingCentral Events.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Javier Ortega Estrada | VP Sales | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/javier-ortega-estrada |
| Armando Mann | Chief Business Officer & Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/armando-mann |
| Badri Rajasekar | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/badri-rajasekar |
| Dave Schools | Head of Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-schools |
| Eric Sellin | Principal Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-sellin |

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## FAQ

### What does Armando Mann invest in?

Armando Mann invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Armando Mann's check size?

Armando Mann typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$4.9M at Seed and $4M–$10M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Armando Mann participates in.

### When did Armando Mann last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Armando Mann closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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