Manu Kumar

Everything Manu Kumar said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

20VC Disclosure

Kumar: K9 Ventures initial check size is $400K to $600K

“My initial range used to be between 400 to 600 K as an initial investment. I would say I'm probably closer to the higher end of that range today than I was earlier, but I've still tried to keep it very stable and disciplined.”

Manu Kumar Mar 23, 2020 ▶ 12:20 20VC: Multi-Stage Funds Investing At Seed Are Option Value Investing, Why The Biggest Enemy For Venture Firms Is Group Think and How Running Companies Changes Your Investment Mentality with Manu Kumar, Founder @ K9 Ventures

20VC Disclosure

Kumar: K9 Ventures' first fund was $6.25 million

“So the first fund was about six and six and a quarter million which is super tiny as venture funds go.”

Manu Kumar May 23, 2016 ▶ 5:14 20VC: K9's Manu Kumar on His Approach To Risk, Valuation & Believing What Other People Don't

20VC Disclosure

Kumar: I spend most portfolio support time on follow-on financing

“And that's probably what I spend most of my time on with my existing portfolio companies.”

Manu Kumar May 23, 2016 ▶ 8:07 20VC: K9's Manu Kumar on His Approach To Risk, Valuation & Believing What Other People Don't

20VC Prediction Held up

Kumar: K9 invests $400k-$500k initially and up to $4M per startup

“So my sweet spot is usually around 400 to 500,000 as an initial investment. But then I will go as high as about four million dollars into each company. So I do, I'll do 400 to 500,000 into the pre-seed. I might do 750 or a million into the seed, and then anoth…”

Manu Kumar May 23, 2016 ▶ 10:39 20VC: K9's Manu Kumar on His Approach To Risk, Valuation & Believing What Other People Don't

The other half of the tape: Manu Kumar's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 25 times in 7 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 18Henry Ward 3Sumit Gajri 1Rich Wong 1Charles Hudson 1Ann Miura-Ko 1

Statements about Manu Kumar, by other people (1)

20VC Disclosure

Manu Kumar promised seed funding if Henry Ward solved stock certificates

“Manu and I were having lunch one day and he said, you know, I have this problem, this stock certificate problem. I would love for a company to exist to solve it. If you'll start the company, I'll invest in it.”

Henry Ward Jan 6, 2017 ▶ 3:22 20VC: eShares' Henry Ward on Why Portfolio Theory Is Wrong? Why Investors Will Never Take Market Risk & Why You have To Have A Line of Sight To A $Bn Outcome

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Manu's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	Founder & Chief Firestarter, K9 Ventures	2	28	67% 4/6	full record on 20VC →