# Mana Ventures

> Mana Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 157 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 157
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 1%
- Fund size: $1.3M
- Last fund: May 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/18140743/
- Website: https://www.manaventures.vc/

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$7.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$3.8M |
| Series A | $5.5M–$48M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 33 | 21% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 19 | 12% |
| SaaS | 18 | 11% |
| Health Care | 13 | 8% |
| Machine Learning | 10 | 6% |

164 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 46 | 29% |
| Series A | 24 | 15% |
| Pre-Seed | 20 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 10 | 6% |
| Series B | 7 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 77 | 49% |
| Canada | 4 | 3% |
| Mexico | 3 | 2% |
| India | 2 | 1% |
| Colombia | 2 | 1% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jared Van Ryne | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jared-van-ryne |
| Morgan Schwanke | Founder & Partner | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morgan-schwanke |
| Victor Wang | LP | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/victor-wang-2-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Atlas Motion | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Traysar | Subterranean warfare for allied supremacy. | $25M | Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Dawn Aerospace | 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 | Hellbender develops and manufactures lot and robotic products. | $12.5M | Seed | May 19, 2026 |  |
| Secludy | Secludy is privacy-guaranteed AI training made easy. We use advanced privacy technology to generate synthetic datasets that mimic your original dataset so that you can train your AI models on your most valuable data – without risks of leaking PII.With Secludy, you can:- Enable privacy-guaranteed fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) forAI assistants, chatbots, and other machine learning applications.- Deploy within your cloud - use Secludy without sharing any data with us.- Stay compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA. | $4M | Seed | May 13, 2026 |  |
| Kanvas Biosciences | Kanvas Biosciences developed cutting-edge imaging technology for microbial detection, providing unmatched speed, breadth, and adaptability. Kanvas aims to transform microbial research and infectious disease diagnostics through innovative imaging technology of the next generation. | $48M | Series A | May 05, 2026 |  |
| Autonomous Cyber | Autonomous Cyber is an artificial intelligence platform for cybersecurity solutions. | $12M | Seed | May 05, 2026 |  |
| Anello Photonics | Anello Photonics is a technology company developing a silicon photonic optical gyroscope to navigate, position, and motion track autonomous applications in challenging GPS-jammed and spoofed environments. The company's technology portfolio spans over 28 issued patents, and over 44 pending patents, and includes an AI-based sensor fusion engine.It serves the robotics, defense, construction, agriculture, and autonomous vehicles industries. | $25M | Series B | May 04, 2026 |  |

10 of 157 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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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 157 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 $2M–$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.

### 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 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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