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About Investor

Manu Kumar serves as Founder & Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures, focusing on investments across Travel, Retail, SMB Software, Impact, Entertainment & Sports, Real Estate/PropTech, Cloud Infrastructure, ClimateTech/CleanTech, AI, and Health & Hospital Services at Pre-seed, Seed, and Series A stages with investment ranges between $250K - $750K. An entrepreneur who started his first company, SneakerLabs, with $5,000 and later sold it for over $100M, he coined the phrase "Pre-seed" and invests in companies at the earliest stages with teams of technical founders who are creating new technologies, bringing extensive entrepreneurial experience to his venture capital role.