# Manav Garg

> Manav Garg is a seed investor at Eka Software Solutions backing Software. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Eka Software Solutions](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eka-software-solutions)
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 48%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://in.linkedin.com/pub/manav-garg/0/254/227
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/manav_garg?lang=en
- Website: https://x.com/manav_garg?lang=en

Manav Garg is a seed investor at Eka Software Solutions in Bengaluru focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Manav Garg is the CEO and Founder of Eka Software Solutions. Besides the overall responsibility of managing Eka, Manav oversees the areas of business strategy and corporate finance. Manav founded Eka after a brief stint as a trader with a large global commodity trading house. It was during his trading days that he saw the deficiencies intraditional trading and risk management software. Realizing the market opportunity, and combining this with his passion for technology, Manav setup Eka with venture capital funding. The first few years of organizational building at Eka were an invaluable experience, helping him gain deep and unique insights into all aspects of the business, and the needs of customers across the globe. Today, with Eka having shown significant growth in revenues, profitability, customer base and employees, Manav provides leadership and overall direction in such strategic areas as talent management, product direction and growth strategy. He constantly strives to achieve ever higher levels of organizational excellence and customer satisfaction by encouraging responsibility and accountability at all levels.Born in 1974, Manav graduated as an engineer from REC (Regional Engineering College) Jalandhar, and followed this by an MBA from IIFT (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade), Delhi. He was recently awarded the Star Entrepreneur Award for 2008-09 at the 2nd Indira International India Innovation Summit.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$5.1M |
| Angel | $245k–$245k |
| Series A | $7M–$9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 36% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 28% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 24% |
| SaaS | 5 | 20% |
| Internet | 5 | 20% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 72% |
| Series A | 3 | 12% |
| Angel | 2 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 44% |
| India | 6 | 24% |
| Singapore | 1 | 4% |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Coreworks AI | Coreworks AI is an AI driven fintech company that offers a a natural language query engine for finance teams. | $5M | Seed | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Metaforms | Metaforms is an artificial intelligence platform that enables market research organizations to operate more efficiently and win more business. | $9M | Series A | Jul 31, 2025 |  |
| GIBRAN | Gibran is an AI research and product company reimagining how artificial intelligence supports, rather than replaces, human creativity and autonomy. Gibran is building a new class of scale-free AI systems — models that evolve, adapt, and collaborate with humans in open-ended, creative ways. Unlike traditional automation tools, Gibran’s AI draws onprinciples from natural ecosystems and complex adaptive systems to augment how people think, decide, and create. | $2.6M | Seed | Jul 14, 2025 |  |
| RapidClaims | RapidClaims is redesigning the healthcare billing stack | $8M | Series A | Apr 02, 2025 |  |
| Thesys | Thesys is a software company that offers a design and prototype tool for product owners and designers building AI agents. | $4M | Seed | Nov 07, 2024 |  |
| Spry | Spry is a cloud-based operating system that allows movement health professionals to collect and analyze patient data in real time. | $15M | Series B | Oct 09, 2024 |  |
| RapidClaims | RapidClaims is redesigning the healthcare billing stack | $3.1M | Seed | Feb 15, 2024 |  |
| Jhana | Jhana provides a suite of research and drafting assistance to Indian legal practitioners. | $1.6M | Seed | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Protecto | Protecto is an IT company that offers privacy engineering and data security services. | $4M | Seed | Nov 08, 2023 |  |
| Togai | Togai is end-to-end pricing infrastructure that tracks your product usage as they happen, aggregates them to suit your pricing strategy (cloud metering) and provides real-time revenue visibility for you and your customers. Our mission is to empower SaaS founders to use pricing as a lever to grow their business.Togai is derived from the Tamil word‘Thogai’ which means Value/Price. Conceptualized from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India we are building for the world of SaaS to help founders never leave money on the table. Focus on creating value, we help you capture it. | $3.1M | Seed | Jun 03, 2023 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [peercheque](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peercheque) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Better Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-capital-e839) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BoldCap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boldcap) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Eight Roads Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eight-roads-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Eka Software Solutions

VC Fund · Bangalore, India

Eka Software Solutions is a leader in technology for organizations that specialize in the buying and selling of physical commodities across world markets.

5 contacts available at Eka Software Solutions.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amit Sureka | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-sureka |
| Andy Bout | Vice President of Energy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-bout |
| Manav Garg | CEO & Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manav-garg |
| Mumu Pande | Vice President of Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mumu-pande |
| Stewart Brightman | Vice President of Energy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stewart-brightman |

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## FAQ

### What does Manav Garg invest in?

Manav Garg invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 25 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 Manav Garg's check size?

Manav Garg typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$5.1M at Seed, $245k–$245k at Angel and $7M–$9M 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 Manav Garg participates in.

### When did Manav Garg last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Manav Garg closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 25 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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