Manu Gupta
Founder of Blue Lion
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2022 - Current
Blue Lion is a tech venture capital fund based in Los Angeles and London, backing founders that positively advance society. We focus on climate, health, and inclusive finance, and invest Seed (~$500k - $1m) and Series A ($1.5m - $4m) across the US & Europe. Our unique structure allows us to continue supporting the best companies Series B+, where we have recently invested >$30m. Our partners have backed 15 unicorns resulting in two IPOs and over a dozen M&A sales. Nearly $425m has been invested into transformational companies such as Aetion Health, Blockchain.com, Builder.ai, Casafari, Even Healthcare, Figure, Forward Health, Glovo, Maker Studios, Omio, Opendoor, Pipe, Revolut, SoFI, and Taulia. Founders receive an unfair advantage from our transatlantic experience. We have held ~40 board seats on companies of >$130bn market value collectively, such as Builder.ai, Premier League, Revolut, Rathbones, British Business Bank, and the BBC.
Blue Lion is a tech VC firm backing founders tackling society's largest problems. We focus on health, climate and inclusive finance.
Board Member
2018
Led Series A, invested in B / C / D. Leading software development platform. Raised from Blue Lion, QIA, Insight Partners, MSFT, Jungle, KSV, WndrCo, VMWare and Lakestar.
Investment Committee Member
2021
Investment Committee Member
2021
A collaboration between King’s College London, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Board Member
2021
Dedicated to sustainability and removing animals from food, leather, cosmetics.
Board Member / Advisor
2019
Led Seed round. Real estate analytics platform. Raised from Starwood Capital, Prudence Holdings, and Lakestar.
Investor
2020 - 2021
Series D; one of the fund's largest investments.
Investor (IPO: $OPEN)
2016 - 2021
Series C to IPO 2021. Largest fund investment. Consumer real estate tech platform.
Opendoor is a real estate technology company that simplifies the process of buying and selling homes.
Raised $1,887,930,000.00 from BlackRock and Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP).
Investor (IPO: $SOFI)
2015 - 2021
Series D to IPO 2021. A leading consumer finance platform in the US.
SoFi is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services.
Raised $4,845,067,367.00 from Coatue, Baron Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya, T. Rowe Price, BlackRock, Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), Altimeter Capital, Hedosophia and Durable Capital Partners.
Education
MBA
2004 - 2006
MBA Exchange
2006 - 2006
BS
1996 - 1999