Manu Gupta
Partner @ Lakestar
London, United Kingdom
Manu Gupta is a seed investor at Lakestar in London focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Manu is a Managing Partner @ Planet First Partners, investing $10-50m per company into growth stage tech opportunities, and the founder of Blue Lion, investing $100k - $4m per company into seed / series A opportunities. Investments or boards include Opendoor (IPO), SoFI (IPO), Maker Studios (M&A), Hippo (IPO), Taulia (M&A), Revolut, Pipe.com, Aetion Health (M&A), Forward Health, Rhea Fertility, Even Health, Casafari, Omio, as well as other earlier-stage companies. Previously, he was a founding member and ex-Partner of Lakestar, raising $1.4 bn in six years to become one of Europe’s largest tech venture funds. Prior to his investing career, he was an Executive Director and Head of European Internet coverage at Goldman Sachs, living across London and San Francisco, as well as a Product Manager at Oracle and coder at Sun Microsystems in San Francisco. Manu graduated with honors in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) from UC Berkeley and has an MBA from the University of Chicago. He has lived in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Zurich and London.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 26%
Last updated:
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Industries Manu Gupta invests in
Stages Manu Gupta invests in
Countries Manu Gupta invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$5.7M
- Series A
- $11M–$30M
- Series B
- $27M–$160M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 7 (23%)
- FinTech 6 (19%)
- Software 4 (13%)
- Real Estate 4 (13%)
- Finance 3 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (26%)
- Series A 7 (23%)
- Series B 4 (13%)
- Series D 4 (13%)
- Series C 3 (10%)
Country
- United States 10 (32%)
- India 2 (6%)
- Germany 2 (6%)
- United Kingdom 2 (6%)
- Portugal 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Rightfoot's credential-less, real-time bank and debit card data prevents failed payments, curbs defaults, and boosts recoveries. | $15M / Series A / Aug 10, 2023 | ||
| Builder.ai is an AI-powered software designed to help build and operate software projects. Its platform and human-assisted AI helps enterprises, small businesses, and entrepreneurs to build, run, and scale their software without requiring technical expertise and any lines of code. | $250M / Series D / May 23, 2023 | ||
| Vetic is a network of cutting-edge clinics with an emphasis on providing comprehensive pet health care. | $3.7M / Seed / Nov 30, 2022 | ||
| 5Mins s a gamified learning platform designed to help employees improve their skills .It curates short-form video content from leading creators around the world and makes it available to teams and businesses via adaptive and gamified learning engine. | $5.7M / Seed / Nov 07, 2022 | ||
| Builder.ai is an AI-powered software designed to help build and operate software projects. Its platform and human-assisted AI helps enterprises, small businesses, and entrepreneurs to build, run, and scale their software without requiring technical expertise and any lines of code. | $100M / Series C / Mar 30, 2022 | ||
| Sunhero delivers custom-built solar panel solutions. Sunhero offers consumers a hassle-free method of installing customised photovoltaic solar systems on their homes, be that either purchasing outright or renting for a 20 year period. | $4M / Seed / Feb 14, 2022 | ||
| Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost. | $5M / Seed / Jul 23, 2021 | ||
| CASAFARI brings transparency to chaotic property markets by building a clean and complete real estate database. The company's proprietary technology allows agents to collect, clean, match duplicates, and evaluate every property coming to the market and to source the best investment opportunities in real-time. | $15M / Series A / Jul 07, 2021 | ||
| Pipe operates a global trading platform for recurring revenue streams, connecting companies to institutional investors to trade in real time. It makes recurring revenue streams tradable for their annual value offering more cash flow for scaling companies | $250M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 19, 2021 | ||
| Doorstead is a property management and tenant placement company operating across multiple states. The company offers tenant placement and full-service property management at 5% monthly fees. Doorstead's technology platform analyzes over 11 million rental market data points to achieve a median placement time of 21 days, while maintaining a 1%delinquency rate and 0.36% eviction rate through rigorous screening processes. | $12.5M / Series A / Apr 15, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Lakestar
Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs. Early investments included Skype, Spotify, Facebook, and Airbnb. Since raising the first fund in 2013, Lakestar manages an aggregated volume of over EUR 1bn across three early-stage funds, and more recently a growth fund. The company has expanded and broadened its portfolio and holds investments in the likes of Opendoor, Oscar, GetYourGuide, Glovo, Sender, Eigen, Five, Revolut, and Hometogo to name a few. Lakestar has a presence in Berlin, Zurich, and London. Lakestar helps companies to identify new markets and expand into them rapidly, with a focus on the US and Europe. The team advises and supports portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, technology, and marketing. The investments range from early-stage companies to those in their growth stage.
Lakestar Contacts
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Mathias Haniel
Partner
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Mika Salmi
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Oliver Heimes
Partner
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Stephen Nundy
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Steven Jacobs
Partner & Chief Product Officer
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FAQ
What does Manu Gupta invest in?
Manu Gupta invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Manu Gupta invest in?
Manu Gupta typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$5.7M at Seed, $11M–$30M at Series A and $27M–$160M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Manu Gupta's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Manu Gupta took part in.
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When did Manu Gupta last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Manu Gupta closed in Aug 2023. Shizune tracks 31 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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