Manan is a founding partner of Unshackled Ventures, a fund for immigrant founded startups.
Prior to Unshackled Ventures, Manan ran marketing for ed-tech startup Kno (acq. by Intel 2013) that raised over $90M of funding from top VCs including a16z, First Round Capital, and Floodgate. Before Kno, Manan was an investment banker with $3B in transactions, including the $1.9B acquisition of Skype.
Manan was born in Silicon Valley and received a double major at UCLA.
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