Dr. Manu Kumar ๐๐ฝ Email and Phone Number
A geek turned founder (7x) and investor, Manu is the founder and Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures - a technology-focused micro-VC fund based in Palo Alto, California. K9 invests in companies at a Pre-Seed stage with teams of technical founders who are creating new technologies or opening new markets with a direct revenue model. K9 has invested at the seed/pre-seed stage in companies such as Lyft, Twilio, Auth0, Carta, LucidChart, Everlaw, Osmo, and more.Manu is the co-founder of Carta. Carta is the industry leader in helping companies and investors manage their cap tables, valuations, investments, and equity plans. Manu came up with the idea for Carta in 2009 after making the first investment for K9 Ventures and ending up holding a paper stock certificate.Manu is also the co-founder and CEO of HiHello. HiHello is the leading provider of digital business card and contact management solutions for professionals and businesses. Manu started HiHello because he believes that `Who you know is often more important than what you know` He was frustrated with the lack of good tools to help us grow and manage our most valuable asset: our network.Manu was previously the co-founder and CEO of SneakerLabs (acquired by Octane/E.piphany), CEO of iMeet (merged with Netspoke, acquired by Premiere Global Services), co-founder of CardMunch (acquired by LinkedIn), and a founding advisor to Lytro.Manu holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science (HCI) with a distinction in teaching from Stanford University, a Masters in Software Engineering with a concentration in Business, and a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon University.Manuโs interests focus on technology, entrepreneurship, teaching, building, writing. He has guest lectured in classes at Stanford and also been visiting faculty at Stanford teaching a class on Human-Computer Interaction in the Real World in the computer science department.Manu lives in Palo Alto, CA with his wife, two kids, and their family golden retriever ๐ฆฎ .
K9 Ventures
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Founder & Chief FirestarterK9 Ventures Apr 2009 - PresentPalo Alto, Ca, UsK9 Ventures is a โfrighteningly early" stage Pre-Seed venture fund that provides funding and support for concept-stage and seed-stage technology companies. The fund is focused on startups in the San Francisco Bay Area with technical founders, a core technology product, a clear path to revenue, capital efficiency, and where K9 can add value.
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Co-Founder And CeoHihello, Inc. Jan 2018 - PresentPalo Alto, California, Us -
Co-Founder, Investor & Board ObserverCarta Jul 2012 - PresentSan Francisco, California, Us -
Investor And Board MemberTbh Sep 2020 - PresentSan Francisco, California, Us -
Investor And Board MemberAgenda Hero Apr 2020 - Present -
InvestorOttertune Jul 2020 - PresentPittsburgh, Pa, Us -
Investor And Board MemberDivebell Oct 2019 - PresentSan Francisco Bay Area, California, Us -
Investor & Board MemberDaughters Of Rosie Feb 2019 - PresentBerkeley, California, Us -
Investor & Board MemberInvisible Ai Jan 2019 - PresentSouth San Francisco, California, Us -
Investor & Board MemberForethought Nov 2017 - PresentSan Francisco, California, Us -
Investor & Board MemberWorkona Nov 2017 - PresentSan Mateo, California, Us -
Investor & Board MemberAvoma Oct 2017 - PresentPalo Alto, California, Us -
Investor & Board MemberCompound Eye Mar 2017 - PresentPalo Alto, Ca, Us -
InvestorAurora Mar 2017 - PresentMountain View, California, Us -
Investor & Board MemberCrave.Io Inc. Nov 2016 - PresentSanta Clara, Ca, Us -
Investor & Board MemberTraptic, Inc Oct 2016 - PresentSunnyvale, Ca, Us -
Investor & Board MemberNexkey, Inc. Jun 2015 - PresentAddison, Texas, Us -
InvestorLyft Jan 2010 - PresentSan Francisco, Ca, UsBoard Observer 2010 - 2013 -
Investor And Board ObserverAuth0 Sep 2014 - PresentBellevue, Wa, Us -
Investor And Board MemberKidadmit, Inc. Feb 2014 - PresentSan Francisco, Ca, Us -
Investor And Board MemberOsmo Feb 2013 - PresentPalo Alto, California, Us -
Investor And Board MemberEnuma, Inc. (Formerly Locomotive Labs, Inc.) Nov 2012 - PresentBerkeley, Ca, Us -
Board MemberOccipital Aug 2011 - Present
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Investor And AdvisorBoomerang Apr 2011 - PresentMountain View, Ca, UsThe makers of Boomerang for Outlook (http://boomerangoutlook.com/) and The makers of Boomerang for Android (http://www.boomeranggmail.com/android/) andThe makers of Boomerang for GMail (http://boomeranggmail.com) andThe Email Game (http://emailga.me) ! -
InvestorLucidchart Apr 2011 - PresentSouth Jordan, Utah, UsThe best pure web-based (HTML5) drawing and flow charting tool on the web. -
Investor And Board MemberEverlaw Jan 2011 - PresentOakland, California, UsBoard member from January 2013 - presentAdvisor from January 2011- January 2013 -
InvestorTwilio, Inc. May 2009 - PresentSan Francisco, California, UsTwilio provides a telephony infrastructure web service "in the cloud", enabling web programmers to integrate real-time phone calls into their applications. Twilio's simple, powerful API minimizes the learning curve required to build advanced, reliable voice communications applications that solve critical business needs. Twilioสผs simple Pay-As-You-Go pricing model, means customers pay for capacity only when they need it, not before. Voice applications written on Twilioสผs cloud solution scale transparently, eliminating programming, operational and contractual headaches frequently associated with rapid growth or traf๏ฌc spikes. For more information see http://www.twilio.com -
InvestorDnanexus, Inc. May 2009 - PresentMountain View, Ca, UsThe company's mission is to analyze and organize the world's next generation DNA sequence data. Founded by Stanford scientists experienced in the fields of DNA sequencing and computational methods for DNA analysis, the company is building a universal platform for processing, analyzing, visualizing and managing DNA sequences on a scalable cloud computing infrastructure. -
InvestorCrowdflower Mar 2009 - PresentSan Francisco, Ca, UsCrowdFlower, (formerly Dolores Labs) is building a platform for human computation in the form of a labor market for microtasks. Crowdflower makes it possible for companies to cost effectively perform tasks which are easy for a human to do, but often difficult for a computer to do. By building a statistical layer which provides guarantees on performance and accuracy of human labor pools, Crowdflower makes it possible for companies to crowdsource their high-volume recurring tasks quickly, reliably, inexpensively and scalably. For more information visit http://www.doloreslabs.com -
Investor And Board MemberGradescope Oct 2014 - Oct 2018Berkeley, California, Us -
Investor And Board MemberCoin, Inc. Oct 2012 - Jun 2016All your cards. Only one Coin. https://onlycoin.com/
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Visiting LecturerStanford University Oct 2015 - Dec 2015Stanford, Ca, UsCS549: HCI in the Real WorldFocused on Product Development and the different roles for HCI Practitioners.With class visits to Google, Osmo, Palantir, IDEO, Airbnb, Lyft, Oculus, Facebook, eShares, SquarePoet, Pulse, NexKey, Currant, and Tesla. -
Investor And Board MemberDishero, Inc. Aug 2014 - Jul 2015 -
Investor And Board MemberCaarbon Corp. Jul 2014 - Jul 2015 -
Investor And Board MemberNimble Vr Mar 2012 - Nov 2014Nimble VR was acquired by Oculus VR (NASDAQ: FB)Nimble VR builds input technologies that for the first time allows humans to interact with a computer using all ten digits on their two hands in 3-dimensions.
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Visiting LecturerStanford University Apr 2014 - Jun 2014Stanford, Ca, UsVisiting Lecturer in the Stanford Computer Science Department. Teaching course CS549: HCI in the Real World. Intended for students who are pursuing a focus on HCI, this course focuses on showing students how HCI gets applied in industry across different types of companies. The course consists of on-site visits to companies like Google, Square, Palantir, Facebook, Trifacta, 3Gear Systems, Tangible Play, Dropbox etc. to talk to the HCI practitioners at these companies and learn first hand how HCI and design fits in at different companies. The objective of this class is to have students understand how HCI practitioners fit into organizations, the roles they play, and what skills they need in the real world to be able to do their magic.
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Investor And Board ObserverMobilespan Inc. Dec 2012 - Jun 2014MobileSpan was acquired by Dropbox, Inc
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Founding Advisor & InvestorLytro Inc. Sep 2005 - Jan 2014Mountain View, California, UsLytro is the new name for Refocus Imaging.Refocus Imaging is taking the next big step in digital photography by transforming the camera into a powerful computational platform. A Refocus Imaging camera captures the entire light field entering the lens, not just an ordinary image. By using computational photography it processes the light field to produce pictures, implementing in software what the conventional camera and lens must do physically in hardware. Using the power and economics of software, computational photography removes the physical constraints of camera and lens systems. A Refocus camera can do things that have been considered impossible since the invention of photography. Allowing the user to change the focus of a picture after you taking the shot is one striking example, but only the tip of the iceberg. For a vivid demonstration see http://www.podtech.net/home/search/Refocus+Imaging or visit Refocus Imaging at http://www.refocusimaging.com -
Investor & Board ObserverHighlightcam, Inc. Dec 2009 - Oct 2013
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Investor And Board MemberTorbit Jul 2011 - Jul 2013San Mateo, California, UsTorbit was acquired by Walmart Labs (NASDAQ: WMT)Torbit is a "negative latency proxy" that speeds up a website by on-the-fly optimization of the web pages so that they render and execute faster on the client's browser. Use Torbit to speed up your website in less than 5 minutes. -
Investor & Board ObserverZimride Jun 2010 - Jul 2013Zimride was acquired by Enterprise (NASDAQ: EPD)
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Investor And Board MemberTapcanvas, Inc. Nov 2011 - Mar 2013TapCanvas is a platform for building "single-use" mobile applications -- applications which have a high utility at a particular time and a particular location, but are not something you need to download or install on your phone. TapCanvas applications are ready and available for use when and where you need them.
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Investor And Board ObserverCard.Io Jan 2011 - Jul 2012card.io was acquired by PayPal/eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) -
Investor And Board MemberIndextank Sep 2010 - Oct 2011IndexTank was acquired by LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD)IndexTank providers a scalable infrastructure and an API for building custom search. IndexTank is Search-as-a-Service. -
Investor & Board ObserverBacktype Aug 2010 - Jul 2011San Francisco, Ca, UsAcquired by Twitter (NASDAQ: TWTR) -
Co-Founder, Investor & ChairmanCardmunch, Inc. (Acquired By Linkedin) Dec 2009 - Jan 2011Acquired by LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD)CardMunch is a mobile business card transcription service. It uses your phone to scan a business card. Real workers then transcribe and verify the information on the card and it is returned to your phone as a contact within minutes. Check it out at http://bit.ly/cardmunchfree -
InvestorBiomicro 2004 - 2010Acquired by Roche (NASDAQ: RHHBY)
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InvestorTheradoc May 2004 - 2009UsAcquired by Hospira (NYSE: HSP)TheraDoc is a clinical informatics company that develops and implements electronic surveillance systems for injury detection and prevention to transform the quality and safety of patient careโin real-time. Theradoc's software helps clinicians improve infection prevention and management as well as reduce adverse events. -
AdvisorGuru.Com Aug 2004 - Aug 2008Pittsburgh, Pa, Us -
Doctoral CandidateStanford University Sep 2002 - Jun 2007Stanford, Ca, Us
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Board Of DirectorsNetspoke Sep 2002 - Aug 2005UsNetspoke was acquired by Premiere Global Services (NYSE: PGI) -
Chairman And CeoImeet, Inc. Feb 2001 - Sep 2002iMeet, Inc. merged with Boston-based Netspoke
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InvestorLaminar Software 2000 - Oct 2001Laminar was acquired in October 2001 by Quest Software (Nasdaq: QSFT)
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Vice-President, Interactive TechnologiesE.Piphany, Inc. May 2000 - Feb 2001San Francisco, Us -
Vice PresidentOctane Software Mar 2000 - May 2000Newport Beach, Ca, Us -
President & CeoSneakerlabs, Inc. Dec 1996 - Mar 2000SneakerLabs, a company which developed live-interaction software solutions for the Web, was acquired in March 2000 by San Mateo, California based Octane Software which in turn was acquired by San Mateo, California based E.piphany, Inc. (Nasdaq: EPNY).
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LecturerCarnegie Mellon University Jun 1997 - Jul 1998Pittsburgh, Pa, Us
Dr. Manu Kumar ๐๐ฝ Education Details
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Stanford UniversityComputer Science -
Stanford UniversityComputer Science
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Carnegie Mellon UniversitySoftware Engineering (Business Concentration)
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Carnegie Mellon UniversityElectrical And Computer Engineering
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Modern School
Frequently Asked Questions about Dr. Manu Kumar ๐๐ฝ
What company does Dr. Manu Kumar ๐๐ฝ work for?
Dr. Manu Kumar ๐๐ฝ works for K9 Ventures
What is Dr. Manu Kumar ๐๐ฝ's role at the current company?
Dr. Manu Kumar ๐๐ฝ's current role is Chief Firestarter @ K9Ventures โข Co-founder @ Carta โข Co-founder & CEO @ HiHello โข Investor in Lyft, Twilio, Auth0, Carta, LucidChart, Everlaw, & more โข ๐ฆฎ-Human, Founder, Builder, & Investor โข The O.G. for Pre-Seed..
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Dr. Manu Kumar ๐๐ฝ attended Stanford University, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University, Modern School.
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