Manan Modi
Product Manager at Engine by MoneyLion
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Product Manager
2024 - Current
Leading efforts for our enterprise embedded finance marketplace as a Product Lead launching 1) emerging embedded finance verticals and 2) top of funnel growth product initiatives Engine is MoneyLion’s Enterprise arm and is formerly Even Financial, a Series B FinTech acquired by MoneyLion - a FinTech unicorn startup.
Engine by MoneyLion is a provider of embedded finance and marketplace platforms for financial services.
Raised $67,000,000.00 from American Express Ventures.
Venture Partner
2024
Four Acres is an Early Stage Venture Capital fund founded by Native New Yorkers.
Angel Investor
2023
Investing in B2B pre-seed/seed companies
Product Mastermind Network, Founding Member
2023
Fast Track
2023 - 2024
First Round Capital’s Product Fast Track
Product Manager
2022 - 2024
First Product Manager hire under VP of Product. Series B. Joined at Series A. Company MVP Award (February 2023) and Product Team MVP Award (2022). Functioned as Head of Product for our digital applications team and A/B testing + experimentation team. I led 5 product areas: 1) our core product development -- the brokerage experience (application + customer portal), 2) growth strategies (overseeing top of funnel website work + working with paid acquisition teams using Google, Facebook, Meta, etc to optimize a great funnel), 3) underwriting portal enhancements (creating tools for case managers + sales agents managing applications with carriers), 4) operational re-engagements (implementing new text + email automations to increase retention in our funnel), and 5) built the A/B testing/experimental infrastructure for the company. Early employee (~#30)
Amplify is a platform offering life insurance products, allowing customers to invest and access tax-free savings through their policies.
Raised $45,092,192.00 from Foxe Capital, Moneta VC, Munich Re Ventures, Greycroft, Evolution Ventures, Anthemis and Crosslink Capital.
Product Manager
2021 - 2022
First Product Manager hire under CEO. Series A. Joined after YC. Backed by Y Combinator, Underscore, Uncorrelated, and more. Led all product & design early on, functioning as an early Head of Product and working with the CEO. Product Manager who helped found and build the product team, bridging the CEO and CTO orgs: 1) Product, Design, GTM + 2) Eng I led 3 product lines: 1) credit decisioning engine (incorporating new external APIs + an orchestration tool to automate underwriting further), 2) embedded credit operating system (optimizing a loan origination system to manage applications via onboarding and a dashboard - for SMBs to manage their deal pipeline end to end), and 3) lender marketplace (managing the matching platform of SMBs with lenders via tailored credit products from our lender relationships). Early employee (~#30)
Lendflow is a software company that develops embedded credit infrastructure for lenders and software companies.
Raised $13,500,000.00 from Navitas Capital, Hack VC, GTMfund, I2BF Global Ventures, Derive Ventures, Underscore VC, 2048 Ventures, Knoll Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures and Trajectory Ventures.
Human-Computer Interaction Design: TA (INFO 3450)
2021 - 2021
TA for Cornell's largest UI/UX Design course | https://cis.cornell.edu/
Product
2020 - 2021
Founded by JJ Echaniz, former Softbank Vision Fund Investor. I joined while in stealth as an early intern hire — we shut down, but I learned a lot. It was the start of my passion for helping businesses that then led me to Lendflow.
Head of Product Marketing
2019 - 2020
Led all product marketing efforts and managed 7-10 marketers every semester.
Cornell AppDev is a non-profit firm project team at Cornell University composed of developers, designers, and marketers who create apps.