Manpreet S. Mattu

Founder, Chief Investment Officer

📍 Washington DC-Baltimore Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2018𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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Investor, and Board Member
Jan 2018
Backpacker Panda is the new vibrant start-up company on the block with passion towards creating a data driven company and changing the way people backpack, travel, hike and bike in India. The hospitality market of India is slated for a disruptive change with our concept. Working with us will not only be a challenging and fun job but it will be a great opportunity for you to hone your entrepreneurial talents. At Backpacker Panda our vision is to encourage more and more people to travel more often. Our business concept leverages this idea by creating well-thought, functional and comfortable ‘social’ backpacking accommodations at prices so encouraging that as many backpackers as possible could explore much more of India and rest of the world soon.
mid stageHospitality
Investor, and Board Observer
Feb 2016
Looking for a way to track your business assets, automate inventory, locate critical items and people, monitor storage conditions? Are you looking for a solution that is as simple to install and use as an iPhone app? With Visybl you can bring never-before visibility to your organization’s assets. Laptops, medical equipment, vehicles, containers, Visybl can track them all. Visybl uses small, inexpensive sensors that can talk to your iPhone, and report presence, location, temperature, and motion. You simply attach these to your tracked assets, install an app, and you and your colleagues have complete asset visibility, across the business. Following features are available today with more coming soon. Presence: Know the location of your assets across the enterprise. Be notified if anything goes missing. Temperature: Monitor temperature continuously. Get alerts if you assets cross critical temperature thresholds. Motion: For the most important assets, get alerts to your smartphone as soon as it is detected as moving. Finding: Finding assets quickly. First by identifying what zone they are in, next using your phone to get close, and finally blinking LEDs to home in.
Experience · 6 entries
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2020
Global Head, Public Sector VC and Startups at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Mar 2020
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazons expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.
2018
Investor, and Board Member
Jan 2018
Backpacker Panda is the new vibrant start-up company on the block with passion towards creating a data driven company and changing the way people backpack, travel, hike and bike in India. The hospitality market of India is slated for a disruptive change with our concept. Working with us will not only be a challenging and fun job but it will be a great opportunity for you to hone your entrepreneurial talents. At Backpacker Panda our vision is to encourage more and more people to travel more often. Our business concept leverages this idea by creating well-thought, functional and comfortable ‘social’ backpacking accommodations at prices so encouraging that as many backpackers as possible could explore much more of India and rest of the world soon.
mid stageHospitality
2016
Investor, and Board Observer
Feb 2016
Looking for a way to track your business assets, automate inventory, locate critical items and people, monitor storage conditions? Are you looking for a solution that is as simple to install and use as an iPhone app? With Visybl you can bring never-before visibility to your organization’s assets. Laptops, medical equipment, vehicles, containers, Visybl can track them all. Visybl uses small, inexpensive sensors that can talk to your iPhone, and report presence, location, temperature, and motion. You simply attach these to your tracked assets, install an app, and you and your colleagues have complete asset visibility, across the business. Following features are available today with more coming soon. Presence: Know the location of your assets across the enterprise. Be notified if anything goes missing. Temperature: Monitor temperature continuously. Get alerts if you assets cross critical temperature thresholds. Motion: For the most important assets, get alerts to your smartphone as soon as it is detected as moving. Finding: Finding assets quickly. First by identifying what zone they are in, next using your phone to get close, and finally blinking LEDs to home in.
2015
Director - Strategic Ventures
May 2015
Whether at the border, up in space, or on the battlefield, we build the advanced technology that makes America stronger, faster, and safer. It’s who we are and what we do. It’s in our code.
2011
Founder, and Partner
Aug 2011
BlueSky is a diversified investment management firm, focused on generating cash-flow. The firm employs rigorous research, analytical tools, a a diversified risk-model to this goal.
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