# Manan Mehta

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Meet Minority Maverick - Manan Mehta, Entrepreneur and Investor

In this captivating episode, we sit down with Manan Mehta, the Founding Partner of Unshackled Ventures, to explore the world of immigrant entrepreneurship and the groundbreaking work Unshackled Ventures is doing to support them. Manan shares his own journey and personal motivations for championing …

#4: Conversation with Manan Mehta -- Insights on Journey from Mechanical Engineering to Building a No-Code Consulting Business

In this engaging conversation, Manan Mehta, a mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur, discusses his journey into the world of no-code. He talks about his company, Modernizing Processes, which specializes in using no-code tools like Glide to optimize business operations for a range of clients. Mana…

From Gut Instinct to Fact-Based Data Intelligence: Restaurant Analytics Have Evolved

In this episode of Modern Solutions for Modern Restaurants, host Paul Molinari from Popcorn GTM and co-host Matt Haselhoff from One Goal Consulting welcome Manan Mehta, founder and CEO  of Livelytics.ai. They dive into the importance of data-driven decision-making in an industry where speed, margin…

AI-Powered Dashboards: The Crystal Ball for Your Restaurant Operation

In this episode of Modern Solutions for Modern Restaurants, host Paul Molinari from Popcorn GTM discusses revolutionary advancements in restaurant data management with Manan Mehta, Co-Founder and CEO of Livelytics. They dive into how Livelytics' AI-powered dashboards transforms restaurant data into…

Alien Advantage: Pattern-Breaking Innovation/Manan Mehta, Rustam Esanov - Immigrants, Unshackled, mRNA+AI ~ Spark of Ages Ep 53

We explore how removing immigration friction and backing immigrant founders at day zero can produce outsized innovation, through the lens of a VC platform and a biotech founder reprogramming tumors with mRNA and AI. The conversation blends policy, venture economics, and a bold oncology thesis with …

The Dutch "Alien" Reinventing Food with Ruby | Tony Martens, Plantible Foods ~Believe in Aliens Ep 2

Manan Mehta sits down with Tony Martens, CEO and co-founder of Plantible Foods, to explore how two Dutch immigrants are disrupting the trillion-dollar food industry by extracting RubisCO—nature's most abundant protein—from duckweed. We unpack why complete plant proteins matter, how Tony and his co-…

AI, Grit & Global Talent: Two VCs Shaping Silicon Valley’s Future - S3 E12

On this week's episode of Silicon Valley Impact we have Mala Ramakrishnan, Managing Partner of Progressive Ventures; and Manan Mehta, Co-Founder and General Partner of Unshackled Ventures. Mala is a founder, venture capitalist, and product executive focused on AI, enterprise SaaS, and emerging tec…

"You don't have enough dopamine in your pitch!" | El Pack w/ Asher Siddiqui

“How you modulate a good story is by inserting dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins at the right times to be able to deliver that story so that the person listening to that story can form an opinion.” Asher Siddiqui from the Song Family Office joins me on El Pack to answer your questions o…

The VC Backing the American Dream with Manan Mehta, Unshackled Ventures

Immigrant founders have built some of the world’s most valuable companies, but many still face barriers that make it harder to get a startup off the ground. Visa restrictions, limited access to friends-and-family capital, shallow networks, and a venture industry built around pattern matching can ke…