Unshackled Ventures
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Unshackled Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Unshackled Ventures is the only early-stage venture capital fund that enables unrecognized and excluded immigrant founders to start companies in the U.S. Since its founding in 2014, Unshackled has proven its thesis that investing and supporting this population drives strong investment returns across key industries, including Americaninfrastructure, generative AI, healthcare, space, and enterprise SaaS. To date, the firm has invested in 80 companies and over 200 entrepreneurs.
- Total investments:
- 96
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 52%
- Fund size:
- $35M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Unshackled Ventures invests in
Stages Unshackled Ventures invests in
Countries Unshackled Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$5.4M
- Pre-Seed
- $150k–$2.3M
- Series A
- $8M–$22M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (9%)
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (9%)
- Health Care 8 (8%)
- Information Technology 8 (8%)
- Internet 7 (7%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 42 (44%)
- Seed 31 (32%)
- Series A 8 (8%)
- Angel 1 (1%)
- Funding Round 1 (1%)
Country
- United States 59 (61%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- Pakistan 1 (1%)
- Australia 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
E'mani Davis
Operations Associate
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Operations Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Manan Mehta
Founding Partner
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Founding Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Michael Serotte
Law Partner
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Law Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Nitin Pachisia
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Alexis Zamira Maciel
Pre-Seed Investor
|
Pre-Seed Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reprogram Biosciences is a biotechnology company that develops cancer treatment with cell reprogramming technology. | $5M / Seed / May 26, 2026 | ||
| TextQL is a platform that simplifies the data-to-insight process for organizations. The platform indexes BI tools and semantic layers, documents data in dbt, and uses OpenAI and language models to provide self-serve power analytics. With TextQL, non-technical users can easily and quickly work with data by asking questions in their work context(Slack/Teams/email) and getting automated answers quickly and safely. The platform also leverages NLP and semantic layers, including the dbt Labs semantic layer, to ensure reasonable solutions. TextQL's elegant handoffs to human analysts, when required, dramatically simplify the whole question-to-answer process with AI. | $17M / Apr 17, 2026 | ||
| Vacsfpaceal is an AI conversation intelligence platform that captures meetings, interviews, and discussions, turning them into searchable knowledge, structured insights, and automated workflows for teams that rely on conversation-driven work. | $2.8M / Seed / Feb 11, 2026 | ||
| Apolink is building the world’s most interoperable satellite relay network in low Earth orbit. The hybrid communication architecture combines RF and optical inter-satellite links to enable real-time, continuous connectivity for satellite operators across industries. | $4.3M / Seed / Jul 11, 2025 | ||
| Dosen is a platform that offers live and personal access to expert advisors. | $2.3M / Pre-Seed / Apr 10, 2025 | ||
| HubRE AI provides AI-driven solutions designed to automate workflows, enhance customer interactions, and optimize efficiency across various industries. Its offerings include Hub Interact, an advanced AI chatbot for real-time customer engagement; HubDocs AI, a platform that automates document compliance and auditing processes; and HubRE Data, ascalable data management system that integrates diverse data sources for comprehensive insights. These tools aim to streamline operations, reduce manual tasks, and support data-driven decision-making. By leveraging AI technologies, it assists businesses in improving productivity and ensuring compliance in regulated sectors. | $40K / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 12, 2025 | ||
| OrbitalNerds develops bus subsystems and on-orbit infrastructure for both orbital and interplanetary needs. | $150K / Pre-Seed / Jun 02, 2024 | ||
| TextQL is a platform that simplifies the data-to-insight process for organizations. The platform indexes BI tools and semantic layers, documents data in dbt, and uses OpenAI and language models to provide self-serve power analytics. With TextQL, non-technical users can easily and quickly work with data by asking questions in their work context(Slack/Teams/email) and getting automated answers quickly and safely. The platform also leverages NLP and semantic layers, including the dbt Labs semantic layer, to ensure reasonable solutions. TextQL's elegant handoffs to human analysts, when required, dramatically simplify the whole question-to-answer process with AI. | $4.1M / Seed / Jan 24, 2024 | ||
| Masa Finance seeks to disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses, and developers with the tools to access credit and enable untapped wealth creation for 4.95B people globally. | $5.4M / Seed / Jan 23, 2024 | ||
| TextQL is a platform that simplifies the data-to-insight process for organizations. The platform indexes BI tools and semantic layers, documents data in dbt, and uses OpenAI and language models to provide self-serve power analytics. With TextQL, non-technical users can easily and quickly work with data by asking questions in their work context(Slack/Teams/email) and getting automated answers quickly and safely. The platform also leverages NLP and semantic layers, including the dbt Labs semantic layer, to ensure reasonable solutions. TextQL's elegant handoffs to human analysts, when required, dramatically simplify the whole question-to-answer process with AI. | Pre-Seed / Dec 12, 2023 | ||
| See all 96 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Unshackled Ventures invest in?
Unshackled Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 96 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 Unshackled Ventures invest in?
Unshackled Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$5.4M at Seed, $150k–$2.3M at Pre-Seed and $8M–$22M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Unshackled Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Unshackled Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Unshackled Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Unshackled Ventures?
The team at Unshackled Ventures includes E'mani Davis (Operations Associate), Manan Mehta (Founding Partner) and Michael Serotte (Law Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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