# Manu Rekhi

> Manu Rekhi is a seed investor at Inventus Capital Partners backing Artificial Intelligence. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Inventus Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inventus-capital-partners)
- Location: San Mateo, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manurekhi
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Manu
- Website: https://inventuscap.com/team/manu-rekhi

Manu Rekhi is a seed investor at Inventus Capital Partners in San Mateo focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Manu brings deep experience building digital consumer businesses, and has worked with the founders at Vivu (ACQ: Polycom), Dhingana (ACQ: rd.io), Genwi (ACQ: Persistent), Poshmark, Credit Sesame. Manu is currently on the Boards of Activity Hero, Disco, and FarFaria while advising the team at NextForce. Prior to joining Inventus in 2011, Manuadvised entrepreneurs at Games2Win, Sapplica, Popcorn Apps, j2play (ACQ: EA), Social Game Universe) and Mentez. Manu helped form Startup Bridge, dedicated to helping early-stage startups scale by connecting Founders with customers and strategic partners across the U.S.Prior to joining Inventus, Manu built several successful digital consumer businesses for Google shortly after its IPO, then joined the early senior team at LoLapps to build a successful social gaming company, and was VP of Products at NewsCorp’s Digital Division. He started his career in the product group at AHWY (IPO) and at startup 123Signup where John & Kanwal were both venture investors and board directors.Manu holds a B.S. from Boston University and a joint MBA from Columbia Business School & The Walter Haas School of Business, Berkeley.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 23% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| iOS | 1 | 8% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |
| Mobile | 1 | 8% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 54% |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 46% |
| India | 2 | 15% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PineGap | PineGap is an AI-powered equity research platform for Wall Street. | $8M | Series A | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| AdZen | Shared Vision is at the forefront of online commerce technology, providing creators with a cutting-edge platform to optimize and automate affiliate revenue streams. Its SaaS solution features a centralized management platform for creators, enabling them to easily manage their affiliate links and maximize their revenue potential. Meanwhile, itsunique consumer-based shopping cart experience drives increased sales and generates revenue for creators, brands, and itself. |  | Seed | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| Flam | Flam is an AI-powered mixed reality (MR) publishing platform. | $4.6M | Seed | May 28, 2024 |  |
| PineGap | PineGap is an AI-powered equity research platform for Wall Street. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 15, 2024 |  |
| StepFunction.ai | StepFunction.ai provides a growth solution for SaaS AI platforms that provide rich customer intent signals to SaaS providers. | $5M | Seed | Aug 31, 2022 |  |
| StepFunction.ai | StepFunction.ai provides a growth solution for SaaS AI platforms that provide rich customer intent signals to SaaS providers. | $5M |  | Aug 31, 2022 |  |
| Homingos | Homingos is a technology company focused on augmented reality experiences that bridge physical and digital memories. Through its core offering, users can create interactive photos that play embedded videos when scanned using the Homingos app. Originally launched as Homingos, the company has rebranded to Flam App, continuing its mission to enhancehow people capture, share, and relive moments. The platform combines social media features with immersive AR, positioning itself at the intersection of memory, media, and innovation. | $3.5M | Seed | Jul 27, 2021 |  |
| Flam | Flam is an AI-powered mixed reality (MR) publishing platform. | $3.5M | Seed | Jul 01, 2021 |  |
| StepFunction.ai | StepFunction.ai provides a growth solution for SaaS AI platforms that provide rich customer intent signals to SaaS providers. | $2.3M | Seed | Jan 23, 2020 |  |
| Disco | Disco is an HR recognition tool that offers products to recognize, reward, promote, socialize, and analyze a company culture.The tool helps the team recognize one another's contributions, big and small, and quantifies that feedback to keep culture on track. Through recognition, employees adapt company values while strengthening peerrelationships, measure the pulse of the company with culture surveys in Slack, reward employees that go above-and-beyond, and publicize company values to every employee through fun and habit-forming social experiences.The San Francisco, California-based company was founded by Jeremy Vandehey, Joseph Estrada, and Justin Vandehey in 2014. | $1.7M | Seed | Jul 07, 2016 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SVQUAD](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/svquad) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [100Unicorns](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9unicorns) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Dallas Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dallas-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DeVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/devc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hummer Winblad Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hummer-winblad-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kwaish Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kwaish-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Inventus Capital Partners

VC Fund · San Mateo, United States

Inventus Capital Partners is an investment firm that provides financial services to start-ups, entrepreneurs, and founders. The GPs have backed nearly 90 Founders to date, typically at the Seed or early-Series A stage, and invest with high conviction behind a very select number of new teams each year.Over the past 10 years, Inventus has helpedSilicon Valley founders grow from early-stage startups into meaningful companies with aggregate annual sales of over $1 billion today. Notable Inventus companies include Poshmark in the $330 billion fashion industry, Credit Sesame in the $500 billion consumer credit & finance markets, and Sierra Atlantic in the $100 billion outsourced product development industry.Investment themes include online consumer marketplaces and business automation software, but the Inventus GPs are particularly interested in backing Founders with a unique and often surprising vision for re-ordering industries and re-inventing consumer experiences for the digital age.While we make investments of conviction to lead financings and apply our own operating successes to coach Founders on strategy, hiring, and growth hacking, we’ve also institutionalized the persistent delivery of high-impact customer and partner introductions via CXOBridge.Inventus co-founded and catalyzed CXOBridge in 2016 with the goal of helping participating startups grow revenue 10x in 2years by matching them with decision-makers at Fortune1000 customers and partners. CXOBridge is an independent organization with a full-time team applying a merit-based approach to selecting startups that solve high-priority problems for the program’s Fortune-1000 participants. To date, 46 startups and 300+ corporates are active in the program, resulting in over $300m of value creation so far. CXOBridge provides startups persistent help with revenue growth and sales traction at scale and is the latest example of the unique capabilities of our firm.

5 contacts available at Inventus Capital Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| John Dougery | Co-Founder & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-dougery |
| Kanwal Rekhi | Managing Director and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kanwal-rekhi |
| Manu Rekhi | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manu-rekhi |
| Manu Rekhi | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manu-rekhi-85b1 |
| Rutvik Doshi | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rutvik-doshi |

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## FAQ

### What does Manu Rekhi invest in?

Manu Rekhi invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and iOS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Manu Rekhi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Manu Rekhi closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 13 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?

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