Manasa Dhanya Ranganathan

Overview

I invest in healthcare at Tidewater Venture Partners, usually at pre-seed and seed. Backed 46 founders at pre-seed and seed. Sit on 6 boards. Before that: Persistent Systems and TCS. Most at home with regulation and biotech. Bird-watcher and amateur naturalist.

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Experience

1. General Partner

   Sep 2023 - Present
   Tidewater Venture Partners · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Sit on 2 boards.
   • Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
   • Led or co-led 40 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
2. Senior Engineering Manager

   Apr 2021 - Sep 2023
   Persistent Systems · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Led the migration of 21 services to venture capital.
   • Grew the Android team from 6 to 40 engineers.
3. Senior Engineering Manager

   Feb 2018 - Apr 2021
   TCS · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Led the migration of 79 services to healthtech.
4. Security Engineer

   Jun 2016 - Feb 2018
   Persistent Systems · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 33 a week to 2.
   • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 630ms to 122ms.
5. Senior Software Engineer

   Sep 2014 - Mar 2016
   Walmart Global Tech · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 490ms to 151ms.
   • Grew the infrastructure team from 3 to 18 engineers.

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Education

1. IIT Hyderabad

   B.Tech, Economics
   1994 - 1998