Manan Mehta
Founding Partner @ Unshackled Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Manan Mehta is a seed investor at Unshackled Ventures in San Francisco. Manan is a founding partner of Unshackled Ventures. Since starting Unshackled in 2014, Manan has invested in ~50 companies, ranging from plant-based proteins to cell towers in space. His diverse background in engineering, investment banking, and marketing has allowed him to understand countless industries and business models, with a keen interestin go-to-market strategy and brand development. Prior to Unshackled Ventures, Manan ran marketing for ed-tech startup Kno that raised over $90M of funding from top VCs including a16z, First Round Capital, and Floodgate. The company was acquired by Intel in 2013. Before Kno, Manan was an investment banker at the Royal Bank of Canada, with his most notable deal being the $1.9B acquisition of Skype led by Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz in 2009 — later sold to Microsoft for $8.5B. Manan received his B.S. in Material Science and Engineering and B.A. in Economics from UCLA in 2007. He also studied Entrepreneurship and Marketing at the London School of Economics. Beyond academics at UCLA, Manan was also the captain and lead of a national championship-winning dance team. Manan has been invited by the White House and the U.S. State Department to speak at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit. As a first-generation American born and raised in Silicon Valley, Manan’s life is inextricably linked to immigrants. He is a firm believer that immigrants are the heartbeat of American entrepreneurship and is excited about unleashing entrepreneurs to innovate and create opportunities for themselves and society.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Stages Manan Mehta invests in
Countries Manan Mehta invests in
Investment Focus
Stage
- Seed 2 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Apolink
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Apolink is building the world’s most interoperable satellite relay network in low Earth orbit. The hybrid communication architecture combines RF and optical inter-satellite links to enable real-time, continuous connectivity for satellite operators across industries. | $4.3M / Seed / Jul 11, 2025 | |
Masa
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Masa Finance seeks to disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses, and developers with the tools to access credit and enable untapped wealth creation for 4.95B people globally. | $5.4M / Seed / Jan 23, 2024 | |
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Masa
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Masa Finance seeks to disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses, and developers with the tools to access credit and enable untapped wealth creation for 4.95B people globally. | $3.5M / Pre-Seed / May 04, 2022 | |
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Masa
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Masa Finance seeks to disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses, and developers with the tools to access credit and enable untapped wealth creation for 4.95B people globally. | $3.5M / Pre-Seed / May 04, 2022 |
Co-Investors
About Unshackled Ventures
Unshackled Ventures is the only early-stage venture capital fund that enables unrecognized and excluded immigrant founders to start companies in the U.S. Since its founding in 2014, Unshackled has proven its thesis that investing and supporting this population drives strong investment returns across key industries, including Americaninfrastructure, generative AI, healthcare, space, and enterprise SaaS. To date, the firm has invested in 80 companies and over 200 entrepreneurs.
Unshackled Ventures Contacts
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E'mani Davis
Operations Associate
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Manan Mehta
Founding Partner
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Michael Serotte
Law Partner
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Nitin Pachisia
Founding Partner
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Alexis Zamira Maciel
Pre-Seed Investor
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When did Manan Mehta last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Manan Mehta closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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