Founder & Managing Partner, Wavemaker Partners

Eric Manlunas is the founder and managing partner of Wavemaker Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2003 that is headquartered in Los Angeles and Singapore with more than $700 million of assets under management. Manlunas is a two-time start-up entrepreneur turned venture capitalist with a record as an investor in more than 400 early-stage businesses. In March, Wavemaker led a $4 million seed round for Shikho, an edtech startup with nearly 350,000 users across 64 districts of Bangladesh. The round was made in addition to $1.3 million in seed funding secured by Shikho in July.

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