# Morgan Schwanke

> Morgan Schwanke is a seed investor at Mana Ventures (San Francisco) backing Software and SaaS. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Mana Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mana-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/morganschwanke/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/morganschwanke
- Website: https://www.manaventures.vc/

Morgan Schwanke is a seed investor at Mana Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Morgan Schwanke is the Head of Business Development and Investor at Restream.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $40k–$20M |
| Series A | $5M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 29% |
| SaaS | 4 | 24% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 18% |
| Analytics | 2 | 12% |
| Logistics | 2 | 12% |

44 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 59% |
| Series A | 3 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 65% |
| India | 1 | 6% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ando | Ando is an AI-native workforce infrastructure for predictive demand and intelligent labor allocation. It uses artificial intelligence to predict the workforce requirements for a specific team over a particular period and helps allocate the workforce accordingly. | $4M | Seed | Dec 01, 2025 |  |
| Synfini | Synfini, Inc., a privately held Menlo Park, California-based company, is a pioneer in agile chemistry. Its advanced, automated molecular discovery platform is transforming drug discovery through integrated neuro-symbolic AI, discovery-focused robotic automation, and world-class chemistry data. The patented Synfini platform includes automatedchemical synthesis technologies from SRI International. As a commercial enterprise Synfini will provide accelerated molecular discovery to drug hunters and pharmaceutical companies worldwide. | $8.9M |  | Jul 07, 2025 |  |
| Crowded | Crowded's CFO suite streamlines collecting, banking, spending, reporting and filing for organizations small, large and multi-chapter. By alleviating time and cost burdens and fostering efficiency, compliance, and transparency, Crowded enables nonprofits to thrive and maximize their impact. | $7.5M | Series A | Jan 30, 2025 |  |
| Datalogz | Datalogz is a BI Ops platform that provides visibility into business intelligence environments. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Queens, New York, United States. | $5M | Series A | Dec 14, 2023 |  |
| EquityList | EquityList is building a full-stack equity and shareholder management platform for global businesses. 260+ startups use EquityList's suite of tools to manage their cap tables, employee grants, and data rooms. | $2.2M | Seed | Sep 18, 2023 |  |
| Wisecut AI | Wisecut helps content creators share engaging videos with automatic editing decisions, including removing pauses, creating subtitles translations, adding background music, and more. Using AI and voice recognition technology, Wisecut analyses dialog and makes automatic video editing decisions, delivering sharable content in just minutes.Thecompany is a graduate of Miami startup accelerator TheVentureCity’s Product Led Program. | $40K | Seed | Jul 10, 2023 |  |
| UtilizeCore | UtilizeCore is an AI-powered marketplace that matches assets with service brokers and service providers. The Marketplace is run by SaaS subscribers who procure service providers and deliver quality service anytime, anywhere. Service requesters and service provider users download the app to buy or sell services to SaaS subscribers. They offersubscribers the ability to integrate any accounting, CRM, payroll, CMMS, IoT device, or industry-specific application through a self-serve interface (i.e., Quickbooks, ServiceChannel, Stripe, Plaid, SalesForce, Hubspot, Vetty, FM Pilot, Corrigo, EquipID, etc.).Founded in 2020, UtilizeCore is headquartered in New York, United States. | $16.7M | Series A | May 28, 2023 |  |
| Datalogz | Datalogz is a BI Ops platform that provides visibility into business intelligence environments. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Queens, New York, United States. | $2.1M | Seed | Feb 28, 2023 |  |
| TrueFoundry | TrueFoundry is an Enterprise Platform as a service that enables companies to build, ship and govern Agentic AI applications securely, at scale and with reliability through its AI Gateway and Agentic Deployment platform. Its AI Gateway encompasses a combination of - LLM Gateway, MCP Gateway and Agent Gateway - enabling enterprises to manage,observe, and govern access to all components of a Gen AI Application from a single control plane while ensuring proper FinOps controls. Its Agentic Deployment platform enables organizations to deploy models on GPUs using best practices, run and scale AI agents, and host MCP servers - all within the same Kubernetes-native platform. It supports on-premise, multi-cloud or Hybrid installation for both the AI Gateway and deployment environments, offers data residency and ensures enterprise-grade compliance with SOC 2, HIPAA, EU AI Act and ITAR standards. Leading Fortune 1000 companies like Resmed, Siemens Healthineers, Automation Anywhere, Zscaler, Nvidia and others trust TrueFoundry to accelerate innovation and deliver AI at scale, with 10Bn + requests per month processed via its AI Gateway and more than 1000+ clusters managed by its Agentic deployment platform. TrueFoundry’s vision is to become the Central control plane for running Agentic AI at scale within enterprises and empowering it with intelligence so that the multi-agent systems become a self-sustaining ecosystem driving unparalleled speed and innovation for businesses. To learn more about TrueFoundry, visit truefoundry.com. |  | Seed | Jan 24, 2023 |  |
| Abide | Abide acquires, grows and builds revenue tech (sales & marketing) SaaS products. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Dec 10, 2022 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Trajectory Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trajectory-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Berkeley SkyDeck Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/berkeley-skydeck-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [boldstart ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boldstart-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fireroad](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fireroad) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kearny Jackson](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kearny-jackson) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Mana Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Mana Ventures invests in early-stage companies disrupting traditional industries and building the future of frontier technologies. Mana Ventures assists technology and consumer brands in honing their vision, building a great team, developing the right product, raising their next rounds, and celebrating their victories.

3 contacts available at Mana Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jared Van Ryne | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jared-van-ryne |
| Morgan Schwanke | Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morgan-schwanke |
| Victor Wang | LP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/victor-wang-2-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Morgan Schwanke invest in?

Morgan Schwanke invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 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 Morgan Schwanke's check size?

Morgan Schwanke typically joins rounds of $40k–$20M at Seed and $5M–$17M 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 Morgan Schwanke participates in.

### When did Morgan Schwanke last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Morgan Schwanke closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 17 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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