# Manan Mehta

> Manan Mehta is a seed investor at Unshackled Ventures (San Francisco). See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Unshackled Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unshackled-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mananm
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/mananm
- Website: http://www.unshackledvc.com

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.

## Investment focus

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Apolink | 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 | 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 |  |
| Masa | 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 |  |
| Masa | 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 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Flori Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flori-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GSR](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsr) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Intersect VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intersect-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lateral Frontiers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lateral-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Peer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [468 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/468-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Unshackled Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Unshackled Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E'mani Davis | Operations Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/e-mani-davis |
| Manan Mehta | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manan-mehta |
| Michael Serotte | Law Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-serotte |
| Nitin Pachisia | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nitin-pachisia |
| Alexis Zamira Maciel | Pre-Seed Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexis-zamira-maciel |

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## FAQ

### 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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