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:
- 161
- 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
- $1M–$3.8M
- Series A
- $5.5M–$48M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 33 (20%)
- Artificial Intelligence 19 (12%)
- SaaS 18 (11%)
- Health Care 13 (8%)
- Machine Learning 10 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 46 (29%)
- Series A 24 (15%)
- Pre-Seed 20 (12%)
- Funding Round 10 (6%)
- Series B 7 (4%)
Country
- United States 77 (48%)
- Canada 4 (2%)
- Mexico 3 (2%)
- India 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Atlas Motion Systems delivers enterprise-grade custom BLDC motors and actuators optimized for advanced robotics and defense applications. | $11.5M / Series A / Aug 06, 2026 | ||
| SkinBit is a healthtech company that develops AI-powered skin cancer detection, digital mapping, and health monitoring solutions. | $6M / Pre-Seed / Aug 05, 2026 | ||
| Claryx is building the hospital immune system, reading the genomes of confirmed patient infections, linking related cases as outbreaks, and tracing each back to its likely source. When that source is in the building (a sink, a shared piece of equipment, a particular room), Claryx finds it by matching the patient's strain against a digital twinof the hospital's microbiome, sequenced from its air, its water and its surfaces, all on proprietary chemistry cheap enough to run continuously. Founded by brothers Kurt and Dirk Hackenberger, Claryx is based in New York and live across multiple health systems. | $3.5M / Pre-Seed / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Subterranean warfare for allied supremacy. | $25M / Seed / Jun 16, 2026 | ||
| Based in New Zealand and the Netherlands, Dawn Aerospace is building same-day reusable launch vehicles and non-toxic satellite propulsion systems.Same-day Reusable Launch Vehicles that do not require specialised space-launch infrastructure, integrate with everyday aircraft in nearby airspace and launch as often and routinely as commercialaviation.Non-toxic high performance propulsion systems for satellites of all sizes. For small satellites, they simplify systems and replace the poisonous and highly-regulated fuel, hydrazine. For CubeSats, they increase capabilities by supplying 1,000x higher performance than electric-based propulsion systems.By building these technologies in tandem, Dawn is creating the end-to-end architecture required for delivering, positioning and returning spacecraft in a highly scalable and environmentally conscious way. | $25M / Series B / Jun 16, 2026 | ||
| Hellbender develops and manufactures lot and robotic products. | $12.5M / Seed / May 19, 2026 | ||
| See all 161 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 Series A stage. Most of the 161 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 Mana Ventures's check size?
Mana Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$7.6M at Seed, $1M–$3.8M at Pre-Seed and $5.5M–$48M 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 Mana Ventures participates in.
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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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