Manus: Commits $50k to ChurchSpace subject to further evaluation
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Investor Jillian Manus makes an investment offer to ChurchSpace founder Emmanuel Brown on The Pitch.
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“I'm right now, in for 50, ok. I could go up from there, truthfully, but my heart is saying come into this, and so right now my heart is leading the way, but then my head will follow on.”
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