Mana Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Mana Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Mana Ventures invests in early-stage companies disrupting traditional industries and building the future of frontier technologies. Mana Ventures assists technology and consumer brands in honing their vision, building a great team, developing the right product, raising their next rounds, and celebrating their victories.
- Total investments:
- 167
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 1%
- Fund size:
- $272k
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Mana Ventures invests in
Stages Mana Ventures invests in
Countries Mana Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.6M–$7.6M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.1M–$5.3M
- Series A
- $5.5M–$43M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 43 (26%)
- Artificial Intelligence 34 (20%)
- SaaS 21 (13%)
- Health Care 16 (10%)
- Information Technology 16 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 66 (40%)
- Pre-Seed 33 (20%)
- Series A 30 (18%)
- Series B 12 (7%)
- Funding Round 9 (5%)
Country
- United States 117 (70%)
- Canada 5 (3%)
- India 2 (1%)
- Mexico 2 (1%)
- Colombia 2 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jared Van Ryne
Associate
|
Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Morgan Schwanke
Founder & Partner
|
Founder & Partner | Total investments: 18 | Find email | |
Victor Wang
LP
|
LP | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| North helps companies automate their AWS savings. By connecting to our analytics engine companies can quickly spot their cost savings opportunities based on their real life cloud usage trends. North then automates the best discounting possible for those products while making sure customers never pay for an unused discount commitment again. | $60M / Series B / Oct 15, 2026 | ||
| Uvi provides infrastructure that serves as a context and reasoning layer for enterprise AI agents. The platform resolves internal corporate vocabulary, tracks dependencies, and reconstructs the decision-making intent scattered across disparate systems like Jira, GitHub, and Slack. By unifying data fragments into an integrated knowledge network, it enables AI tools to process query objectives accurately while enforcing existing user access permissions at the retrieval stage. | $7.5M / Seed / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| Bloom is an operations-as-a-service platform designed for hardware innovators. By connecting product companies with trusted manufacturers, logistics partners, and service providers, Bloom streamlines production, assembly, and after-sales support. Whether in mobility, robotics, clean energy, or emerging tech, Bloom helps brands bring their ideas tomarket faster and more efficiently. | $3.6M / Seed / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| Ampersand is a company that creates a developer platform to assist SaaS companies in building user-facing integrations for their products. It reduces engineering and customer support time spent on creating and managing deep integrations with your customers' Systems of Record. | $15M / Series A / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Efficient Computer develops processor technology focused on improving energy efficiency for compute-intensive workloads. The company designs general-purpose processors and computing architectures that aim to reduce power consumption while maintaining performance across embedded and edge applications. Its technology is built to support artificialintelligence, signal processing, and other demanding tasks within constrained power environments. Efficient Computer provides hardware platforms and related tools that enable device manufacturers and developers to integrate energy-efficient processing into their products. The company’s offerings address applications where performance per watt is a key design consideration. | $97M / Series B / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| American Supercritical manufactures modular supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO₂) power blocks designed to convert heat into electricity. The systems connect to energy infrastructures like gas turbine exhaust stacks, nuclear reactors, reciprocating engine gensets, and heavy industrial factories. They function across a temperature range of 300 to 1000 °C to produce scalable power outputs from 10 to 100+ MW. The factory-assembled blocks utilize dry-cooling by default and operate without requiring site-specific boiler or water chemist staffing. | $8M / Pre-Seed / Sep 23, 2026 | ||
| Helogen Corporation is a space biology and infrastructure company specializing in autonomous orbital laboratories for biomanufacturing, drug development, and advanced materials research in microgravity. | $7.1M / Seed / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| Light Links, Inc. is revolutionizing wireless connectivity with its stealth, plug-and-play hybrid technology that integrates Free-Space Optical (FSO) communication based on diffused laser beams integrated with existing RF technologies. Our solution provides gigabit-speed, ultra-low-latency, bandwidth-dedicated, secure, and anti-jamming highlyreliable (non-line-of-sight) wireless connectivity for enterprise and consumer markets. We call this Wi-OW, the next generation of wireless communication. | $6M / Pre-Seed / Aug 24, 2026 | ||
| Peppy is an open-source robotics framework designed to simplify robot development from prototyping to production,It integrates sensors, actuators, AI, and controllers through a modular node-based architecture,Peppy supports Python and Rust, enabling scalable, high-performance robot software development. | Pre-Seed / Aug 12, 2026 | ||
| Soctera is developing Aluminium Nitride based power transistor with the ability to produce MW-frequency signals. | $4M / Seed / Aug 11, 2026 | ||
| See all 167 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Mana Ventures invest in?
Mana Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 167 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Mana Ventures invest in?
Mana Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$7.6M at Seed, $1.1M–$5.3M at Pre-Seed and $5.5M–$43M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Mana Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Mana Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Mana Ventures?
Public channels for Mana Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at Mana Ventures?
The team at Mana Ventures includes Jared Van Ryne (Associate), Morgan Schwanke (Founder & Partner) and Victor Wang (LP). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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