ERIC MANLUNAS

Founder & Managing Partner

Wavemaker Partners

Eric Manlunas is the founder and managing partner of Wavemaker Partners, an earlystage 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.