Manasa Tanuku is a strategic business leader with over 15 years of experience helping companies scale, across geographies and industries. Her most recent expertise focuses on consumer offerings in the health and wellness space. Manasa’s startup consulting practice focuses on key functional areas to help companies and teams thrive.

Key Areas of Support

PITCH DECK & FUNDRAISING STRATEGY

Nail product-market fit, unique value propostion and market opportunity to raise capital

PRODUCT & DATA DRIVEN CUSTOMER INSIGHTS

Leverage customer insights best practices to develop a fool-proof growth and product roadmap

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Establish clear and consistent systems and protocol for stability, predictability and operational excellence

GEM

  • HEALTH & WELLNESS

  • GEM raised a $10.5M Series A

State of Menopause

  • HEALTH & WELLNESS / CUSTOMER PRODUCT / MEDIA

  • State of Menopause used customer insights to crystallize and pivot business model to change the conversation on women’s hormonal health

Sienna Naturals

  • BEAUTY / HEALTH & WELLNESS

  • Head of operations, strategy, and retention

Wharton School of Business University of Pennsylvania

2013 – 2015

Masters of Business Administration
Operations and Entrepreneurial Management

Neff Entrepreneurship Fellow
Chair of the Wharton Business Plan Competition

Stern School of Business
New York University

2003 - 2006

Bachelors of Science
Finance and International Business

Manasa is also a multi-hyphenate creative, and the author of Inside Thoughts, a subscription based newsletter collection of personal writings. Her writings center on being human, beautiful things, and meandering introspections - all with a goal to enable more honest, thoughtful, and connected conversations.