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Manhattan Venture Partners

Manhattan Venture Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm established in 2014, with offices in New York and San Francisco. The firm specializes in secondary investments in late-stage companies, including those preparing for initial public offerings. With a focus on the technology sector, Manhattan Venture Partners has played a significant role in developing the secondary market for venture-backed companies, engaging in over $2 billion in private transactions. The firm distinguishes itself through its comprehensive research capabilities and streamlined transaction processes, offering a principal investing and advisory solution to private companies and their stakeholders. Its research division, Manhattan Venture Research, is recognized for producing in-depth analyses of private technology firms, addressing the informational challenges associated with venture capital. The firm manages all aspects of transactions, ensuring efficient communication among buyers, sellers, and legal counsel, while adhering to U.S. regulatory standards. Through its various funds, Manhattan Venture Partners identifies well-capitalized companies with strong growth potential and mitigated risks, fostering successful investment opportunities.

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21 past transactions

SpaceX

Funding Round in 2019
Space Exploration Technologies is a space-transportation startup company founded by Elon Musk. SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. SpaceX develops crew and cargo capsules, engines, cryogenic tank structures, avionics, equipment, guidance, and control software. The company is developing the partially reusable launch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. Founded in 2002, Space Exploration Technologies is headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

Kraken

Secondary Market in 2021
Based in San Francisco, Kraken is a bitcoin exchange in euro volume and liquidity that trades various currencies, including Canadian dollars, US dollars, British pounds, and Japanese yen. It is known as the first to have trading price and volume displayed on the Bloomberg terminal as well as to pass a cryptographically verifiable proof-of-reserves audit. Its clientele is comprised of numerous traders, Tokyo government's court-appointed trustee, and Germany's BaFin regulated Fidor Bank. Its fee schedules are tier-based and fees are charged on a per-trade basis. Kraken is also in partnership with the first cryptocurrency bank.

Loft

Secondary Market in 2021
Founded by repeat entrepreneurs in 2018, Loft is Brazil’s first transactional marketplace for residential real estate, facilitating the purchase and sale of properties on behalf of individuals, brokers, and two publicly listed REITs managed by the company. By leveraging proprietary transaction data and an end-to-end digital workflow, Loft is bringing the Brazilian homebuying experience into the ecommerce age while integrating a multitude of adjacent service offerings. Loft was founded in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Flexport

Secondary Market in 2021
Flexport is a licensed customs brokerage and freight forwarder built around a modern web application. Its freight service includes an online dashboard for businesses to easily understand, purchase, manage, and track the services required for global trade. Its team of logistics experts lets focus on core business by ensuring goods arrive at fulfillment/distribution centers on time and at the lowest cost. Flexport's mission is to fix the user experience in global trade and bring the world free trade through technology. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Wish

Secondary Market in 2017
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wish is an e-commerce platform, putting a digital shopping mall of affordable goods directly in the pockets of consumers worldwide. Wish employs big data principles, machine-learning, and search technologies to create a highly-visual, entertaining, and personalized browsing experience for each user. The company leverages a global network of direct suppliers, providing access to top quality, affordable products to anyone with a smartphone. As of 2018, Wish has more than 80 million monthly active users, over one million merchants, and sells nearly 1 billion products annually. For more information about the company or to download the Wish mobile app.

Cloudera

Secondary Market in 2018
Cloudera delivers an Enterprise Data Cloud for any data, anywhere, from the Edge to AI.Cloudera was founded in 2008 by some of the brightest minds at Silicon Valley’s leading companies, including Google (Christophe Bisciglia), Yahoo! (Amr Awadallah), Oracle (Mike Olson), and Facebook (Jeff Hammerbacher). Doug Cutting, co-creator of Hadoop, joined the company in 2009 as Chief Architect and remains in that role. Today, Cloudera has more than 1,600 employees. They have offices in 24 countries around the globe, with their headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

Lime

Venture Round in 2020
Lime aims to provide a sustainable solution to the first and last mile transportation problem by helping people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint. The company empowers future generations to change their behavior so we can save this planet together. From the electric scooter to the e-assist and pedal bike, experience the excitement of Lime’s smart mobility fleet.

Platform Science

Series D in 2024
Platform Science, Inc. develops and integrates hardware solutions, software solutions, and Internet of things (IoT) infrastructure for the transportation industry. It offers Platform Science, a connected vehicle platform that offers core telematics functionality, including applications for compliance, safety, and productivity; and support dynamic hardware configurations, partner integrations, and extends to ecosystem innovations. The company also provides fleet management apps to manage compliance, improve driver experience, and maximize productivity. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in La Jolla, California. Platform Science, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America LLC.

IPSecure

Seed Round in 2024
IPSecure is an IT services company that provides brand protection, sales growth, data analytics, and business monitoring services.

BlueVoyant

Series E in 2023
BlueVoyant is a cybersecurity company that enables cybersecurity defense and protection through technology and tailored services. The company provides advanced cyber threat intelligence managed security services and proactive professional services with forensic capabilities for incident response and remediation. They help large enterprises with impactful intelligence and offer small and medium enterprises the same kind of software and level of services that large enterprises enjoy all from a world-class team of experts that would be challenging to amass directly. BlueVoyant offers increased visibility, professional insights, and targeted responsiveness. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA.

BlueVoyant

Secondary Market in 2023
BlueVoyant is a cybersecurity company that enables cybersecurity defense and protection through technology and tailored services. The company provides advanced cyber threat intelligence managed security services and proactive professional services with forensic capabilities for incident response and remediation. They help large enterprises with impactful intelligence and offer small and medium enterprises the same kind of software and level of services that large enterprises enjoy all from a world-class team of experts that would be challenging to amass directly. BlueVoyant offers increased visibility, professional insights, and targeted responsiveness. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA.

HawkEye 360

Series D in 2023
HawkEye 360 is a data analytics company that develops space-based radio frequency mapping. The company operates a commercial satellite constellation to identify, process, and geolocate a broad set of RF signals. Its products include maritime domain awareness and spectrum mapping and monitoring; our customers include a wide range of commercial, government, and international entities. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia.

RapidSOS

Venture Round in 2022
RapidSOS, Inc. provides an emergency platform that sends rich life-saving multimedia, health profile, and real-time incident data from connected devices directly to 9-1-1 and first responders. The company offers Clearinghouse, a solution that allows users to send emergency request from a RapidSOS-enabled device and receive life-saving emergency data from such devices. It also offers Emergency API suite, a solution to send user data directly to emergency services; RapidSOS Portal that allows public safety agencies to access life-saving NG911 data through a secure and web-based tool; and integration services. The company serves public safety agencies worldwide. RapidSOS, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Udemy

Secondary Market in 2020
Udemy, Inc. provides online courses for students in the United States and internationally. It offers online courses in the areas of development, business, finance and accounting, IT and software, office productivity, personal development, design, marketing, lifestyle, photography, health and fitness, music, and teaching and academics. The company also provides solutions for corporate learning. Udemy, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has additional offices in Ankara, Turkey; Dublin, Ireland; São Paulo, Brazil; Denver, Colorado; and Gurgaon, India.

Instacart

Secondary Market in 2021
Instacart is a grocery delivery startup that delivers in as short as an hour. It focuses on delivering groceries and home essentials, Instacart already has over 500,000 items from local stores in its catalog. Customers can choose from a variety of local stores including Safeway, Whole Foods, Super Fresh, Harris Teeter, Shaw's, Mariano's, Jewel-Osco, Stanley's, and Costco. Customers can mix items from multiple stores into one order. Instacart has raised funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, and Canaan Partners besides other participants. Instacart was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco in California.

Transfix

Secondary Market in 2021
Transfix, Inc. provides trucking brokerage services in the United Sates. The company develops an application that enables shippers to access Transfix, Inc.’s contracted carriers for freight transportation. It offers real-time shipment tracking and alerts; information on carrier performance; and support services. The company serves retail, food, beverage, and manufacturing industries. Transfix, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.

RapidSOS

Series C in 2024
RapidSOS, Inc. provides an emergency platform that sends rich life-saving multimedia, health profile, and real-time incident data from connected devices directly to 9-1-1 and first responders. The company offers Clearinghouse, a solution that allows users to send emergency request from a RapidSOS-enabled device and receive life-saving emergency data from such devices. It also offers Emergency API suite, a solution to send user data directly to emergency services; RapidSOS Portal that allows public safety agencies to access life-saving NG911 data through a secure and web-based tool; and integration services. The company serves public safety agencies worldwide. RapidSOS, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.