John Mannes
John Mannes is a Venture Partner at Basis Set Ventures, supporting founders in transformative industries. He has a background in machine learning, journalism, and cognitive science, and focuses on overlooked markets.
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Basis Set Ventures writes $250K to $10M checks, larger than 33% of firms in the atlas.
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- FiscalNote2013
- TechCrunch
- Basis Set Ventures · Venture PartnerNow
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Who is John Mannes?
John Mannes is a Venture Partner at Basis Set Ventures, supporting founders in transformative industries. He has a background in machine learning, journalism, and cognitive science, and focuses on overlooked markets.
How much does John Mannes invest?
John Mannes invests through Basis Set Ventures, which writes checks of $250K to $10M at pre-seed, seed, series a.
How do I pitch John Mannes?
Email [email protected], the firm's inbox for founders, and name John in the subject. A warm intro from a founder Basis Set Ventures backed works better.
What did John Mannes do before Basis Set Ventures?
FiscalNote; TechCrunch.
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