Manu loves coaching and supporting amazing entrepreneurs. He is currently a Board member or advisor to Flam, HealthifyMe, Stepfunction.ai, Talview, Mercately, Scispace, ArtistOnGo, Auro Digital,  and WALD.ai. He previously supported founders at Credit Sesame, Dhingana (ACQ: Rdio), Disco (ACQ: CultureAmp), FarFaria (ACQ: JumpStart), Genwi (ACQ: Persistent Systems), j2play (ACQ: EA), Vivu (ACQ: Polycom) and Poshmark (IPO: NASDAQ).

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Manu has built successful digital consumer businesses for Google, NewsCorp and numerous startups, and has also applied that expertise in the ongoing consumerization of business software and product led growth. He was previously a co-founder and Board member of StartupBridge, a revenue accelerator helping early-stage startups scale dramatically, by connecting them with customers and decision makers at hundreds of Global 5000 corporations. The learnings from these efforts are being deployed to help his startups scale.

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Prior to Inventus, Manu built several successful digital consumer businesses, for many years at Google shortly after its IPO, then as an early leader at LoLapps in social gaming, and then as VP of Products at NewsCorp’s Digital Division. He started his career in the product group at AHWY (IPO) and at a startup123Signup where John & Kanwal were both venture investors and board directors.

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Manu holds a B.S. from Boston University and a joint MBA from Columbia Business School & The Walter Haas School of Business, Berkeley.