Manu Gupta
Managing Partner @ Planet First Partners
London, United Kingdom
Manu Gupta is a seed investor at Planet First Partners in London focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Manu is the founder of Blue Lion Global VC, and was previously a founding member and Partner of Lakestar VC (>$1.4bn). He splits time between San Francisco 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
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
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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
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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
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Vetic is a network of cutting-edge clinics with an emphasis on providing comprehensive pet health care. | $3.7M / Seed / Nov 30, 2022 | |
5Mins
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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 | |
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Builder.ai
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 | |
| See all 31 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Planet First Partners
Planet First Partners is a venture capital firm creating a real impact for long-term investors and operational advisors. Their purpose-led value creation approach means that they work as "hands-with" active partners with like-minded entrepreneurs and investors to scale ventures that deliver positive impact outcomes. They are passionateabout empowering visionary entrepreneurs who build on disruptive market insights, science and technology, and collective intelligence to develop sizeable and meaningful businesses.
Planet First Partners Contacts
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Frédéric de Mevius
Managing Partner
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Manu Gupta
Managing Partner
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Michael D'Onofrio
Principal; Principal
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Nathan Medlock
Managing Partner
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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 is Manu Gupta's check size?
Manu Gupta typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$5.7M at Seed, $11M–$30M at Series A and $27M–$160M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Manu Gupta participates in.
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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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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