Quick Facts
Biography
Manny Fernandez is a Silicon Valley angel investor, serial entrepreneur and a keynote speaker. He is the co-founder and CEO of DreamFunded.
Career
Fernandez is the founder of SF Angels Group.
In 2014, Fernandez was named the San Francisco Angel Investor of the Year. In 2016, Fernandez was named in Inc. Magazine’s list of the top 33 entrepreneurs to watch. With his popularity on Twitter (over 100,000 followers), he eventually became the 14th most followed Angel Investor. He also has the most viewed equity crowdfunding video on YouTube with over 197,000 views.
In 2016, Menlo College named Fernandez Silicon Valley Equity Crowdfunding Pioneer.
Fernandez has also often appeared as a keynote speaker, judge and panelist for international events and competitions such as startup demo days, Bay Area corporations, colleges and universities, South by Southwest (Texas), SLUSH (Finland), East Meets West (Hawaii), Draper University, Epicenter Festival (Mexico), Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Harvard University, University of San Francisco (USF), PayPal, Yahoo!, Plug and Play, USA Week in Europe, Intel Global Challenge, California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s (CHCC) SharkTank, Startup Grind, AngelHack Global Demo, Startup Weekend among others.
Manny Fernandez co-founded the company DreamFunded, a marketplace that allows shareholders to liquidate their shares in private tech companies without company restrictions. While co-founding DreamFunded, Fernandez won the Equity Crowdfunding Leadership Award from Startup Grind Monterey Bay. DreamFunded became the 1st San Francisco based company to be approved by FINRA / SEC as a registered funding portal. It is also the 1st Latino founded and lead approved equity crowdfunding platform in the world.
Fernandez began helping startups as an adviser after seeing success in his own ventures.
Manny Fernandez and his company, DreamFunded, have been featured in two book publications on angel investing and appeared on numerous media reports such as Forbes, Inc. Magazine, CNBC Squawk Box, TechCrunch, Fortune, Entrepreneur Magazine, Fast Company, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, ABC and others.
Fernandez is an investor "Shark" on CNBC's TV Show, Make Me A Millionaire Inventor, expected to air in October 2016.