# Maneesh Arora

> Maneesh Arora is a seed investor at MightyText backing Mobile, Internet and Mobile Apps. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [MightyText](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mightytext)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Dec 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/maneesharora
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/maneesh1
- Website: https://chandravanshi.org
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/maneesh1

Maneesh Arora is a seed investor at MightyText in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Mobile and Internet. Maneesh Arora is CEO & co-founder of MightyText. He is a product builder who previously worked at Google and Zynga.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $450k–$1.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 7 | 30% |
| Internet | 7 | 30% |
| Mobile Apps | 5 | 22% |
| Apps | 4 | 17% |
| Social Media | 4 | 17% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 70% |
| Angel | 3 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |
| Series A | 1 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 78% |
| Japan | 1 | 4% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flex Finance | Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Dec 03, 2021 |  |
| CloudPeeps | CloudPeeps is an all-in-one platform, marketplace and community that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. |  | Angel | Dec 31, 2015 |  |
| HOOKED | HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more. | $1.3M | Seed | Sep 17, 2015 |  |
| Telepathic | Telepathic is redefining storytelling for the Snapchat generation. They believe there is a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing "lean" principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. Their first product is HOOKED, a “twitter for fiction” mobile app thatmakes reading addictive for teens. Their longterm vision is to release stories across multiple channels, including apps, video and virtual reality.The founders are Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, veterans from the mobile app world. They previously built music apps, like AutoRap, that have helped over 150MM people experience the joy of music creation. They've also produced several viral videos totaling over 300MM views. You can read more about the journey that led us to founding a storytelling startup in this piece they wrote for Vogue. | $1.2M | Seed | Sep 17, 2015 |  |
| Instawork | Instawork operates as a career marketplace for hospitality professionals. It is changing how traditional recruiting works for small businesses by turning the process into an automated matching solution. Its vision is to create economic opportunity for local businesses and professionals, globally. The company was founded in 2015 and isheadquartered in San Francisco, California. | $1.8M | Seed | Aug 01, 2015 |  |
| SnapUp | SnapUp is a smartphone app and e-commerce platform that enables its users to collect and track products through screenshots. It alerts its members when a product of their preference is sold for a lower price. It enables its users to share these items as dynamic lists on web or mobile.SnapUp uses a patent-pending technology to recognize andprocess only screenshots taken of product pages. It was founded in 2013 by Eric Goldberg, based in San Francisco, California. | $600K | Seed | Jul 01, 2014 |  |
| Remind | Remind is a communication platform that helps every student succeed. Founded in 2011, Remind allows school and district administrators to reach and engage with their communities and connects educators and families with the tools that help them teach and learn. Investors include First Round Capital, GSV, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, and SocialCapital. | $3.5M | Series A | Sep 18, 2013 |  |
| Circa | More and more people are relying on mobile as their primary source of news yet the content itself continues to be produced in a format that translates very poorly to mobile devices. Rather than trying to shoehorn existing content into a new environment, Circa is creating the first born-on-mobile news experience. It will deliver news in a uniqueformat – native to mobile devices with an experience intuitive to mobile users. Through comprehensive yet to-the-point news updates paired with an engrossing mobile experience, Circa redefines how news is produced, delivered and consumed. Circa is news reimagined.Circa was founded by | $1.1M |  | Aug 31, 2013 |  |
| Sensor Tower | Sensor Tower provides market intelligence and analytics for the mobile app economy through their software suite. It serves independent and Fortune 500 customers alike, spanning the mobile games, travel, music, finance, eCommerce, and entertainment markets. Our suite consists of free, SMB, and Enterprise level solutions including Store Intelligence,Usage Intelligence, Ad Intelligence, and App Intelligence. | $1M | Seed | Aug 06, 2013 |  |
| App.io | App.io streams your mobile apps from the cloud to any device.Nothing to download. Device agnostic. No custom code. The fastest, easiest way to give people access to your apps.- Customer SupportYour support team needs to see what your customers see. App.io provides on-demand, economical access to your apps without needing to buy devices.- Sales & MarketingStop asking potential customers to jump through hoops. App.io instantly puts potential customers in your app with no download, setup or hassle. Give them the full app experience or fast-forward right to the “aha moment”.- Testing & Quality AssuranceForget about device provisioning, version control or UDIDs. Regardless of platform, quickly and securely share apps with internal and external teams using App.io. | $1.1M | Seed | May 21, 2013 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [3 Wise Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3-wise-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups-da1d) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Baltimore Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baltimore-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Band of Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/band-of-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Base Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/base-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About MightyText

VC Fund · Santa Clara, United States

MightyText is a group of Silicon Valley folks (with experience at Google, Zynga, Cisco), based out of the Bay Area in California, USA.We simply want to make life easier for people who send and receive SMS text messages and get phone calls all day. Android is a powerful, open, platform with lots of possibilities and we're very excited tobring products and features to consumers across the globe!

2 contacts available at MightyText.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Maneesh Arora | Co - Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maneesh-k-arora |
| Julie Hanna | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julie-hanna-ferris |

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## FAQ

### What does Maneesh Arora invest in?

Maneesh Arora invests primarily in Mobile, Internet and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 23 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 Maneesh Arora's check size?

Maneesh Arora typically joins rounds of $450k–$1.7M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Maneesh Arora participates in.

### When did Maneesh Arora last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Maneesh Arora closed in Dec 2021. Shizune tracks 23 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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