Manhattan Venture Partners

Founded in 2014, Manhattan Ventures Partners has been integral in the institutionalization of the secondary market for late-stage, venture-backed companies. The firm’s partners are pioneers in the space and have collectively engaged in more than $2 billion in private transactions, including primary and secondary venture investments. MVP differentiates itself through its unique research and ability to streamline the transaction process by providing a one-stop principal investing and advisory solution to private companies and their various shareholders, as well as GPs and LPs. The firm accomplishes this by bringing together the full expertise of both their private equity and investment banking platforms in partnership with their research team. MVP maintains an extensive global network of family office, hedge fund, private equity, sovereign and private banking investors seeking access to this asset class. MVP’s research arm, Manhattan Venture Research (“MVR”), is led by Santosh Rao, who was the first analyst to produce research on private technology companies. MVR provides insight for investors in the form of unbiased and cutting-edge private company reports that help alleviate the opacity and informational asymmetry inherent to the venture capital asset class. The team typically publishes at least four company-specific reports and two macro reports per year. Historical reports include Postmates, Slack, Uber, Palantir, and Airbnb. MVR also publishes Venture Bytes, a monthly newsletter, which includes its proprietary Liquidity Watchlist projecting the 25 companies most likely to go public. MVP manages all aspects of the transaction by managing communication with the buyer, seller, counsel and the company, therefore facilitating an efficient, transparent, issuer-friendly and U.S. regulatory compliant transaction. The partners involvement in tech investments have helped produce over $2 billion in invested capital across 30+ businesses with greater than 20 liquidity events in the form of an IPO or M&A event. Through the MVP All-Star Fund, MVP Opportunity Fund and VNTR Securities, the firm identifies opportunities and target companies that are well capitalized by top VCs, have rapid growth rates, and that it believes have mitigated risk based on the underlying business, technology, and ability to execute a defined strategy.

Jared Carmel

Managing Partner

Bradley Fishman

Partner

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Samuel Kosloff

SVP

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John Lee

Associate

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Pablo Potente

Senior MD

46 past transactions

PAX Labs, Inc.

Secondary Market in 2015
PAX Labs is a leader in the design and development of premium, app-controlled vaporization technologies and devices. Headquartered in San Francisco, PAX has become an industry leader through innovation and product design. PAX is committed to taking the guesswork out of cannabis with products that offer quality, transparency, and predictability. The company was founded in 2007 and based in San Francisco, California.

SpaceX, Inc.

Venture 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.

SpaceX, Inc.

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.

Udemy, Inc.

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.

Coinbase Support

Series E in 2018
Coinbase is an online platform that allows merchants, consumers, and traders to transact with digital currency. It allows its users to create their own bitcoin wallets and start buying or selling bitcoins by connecting with their bank accounts. In addition, it provides a series of merchant payment processing systems and tools that support many highly-trafficked websites on the internet. Coinbase was launched in 2012 with a mission to create an open financial system for the world. It is operated from San Francisco, California.

Lyft

Secondary Market in 2019
Lyft designs, markets, and operates a mobile application that matches drivers with passengers who request rides, and also allows payment through the app. It also allows riders to schedule rides up to seven days in advance. Its services are primarily focused on college, university, and corporate communities. Lyft is a fast-growing ridesharing company in the U.S. and is available to 95 percent of the US population. Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer in San Francisco, California.

Turo

Series E in 2020
Turo Inc. operates an online car rental marketplace that enables local car owners to list their cars and travelers to rent them for local pickup, city delivery, and airport delivery. It enables users to calculate and discover what their car could earn for them. Turo, Inc. was formerly known as RelayRides, Inc. and changed its name to Turo, Inc. in November 2015. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Airbnb, Inc.

Secondary Market in 2018
Airbnb, Inc. operates a platform for stays and experiences to guests worldwide. The company’s marketplace model connects hosts and guests online or through mobile devices to book spaces and experiences. It primarily offers private rooms and luxury villas. The company was formerly known as AirBed & Breakfast, Inc. and changed its name to Airbnb, Inc. in November 2010. Airbnb, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Spotify

Secondary Market in 2016
Spotify AB provides a digital music-streaming service that gives on-demand access of songs on devices, computers, mobiles, tablets, and home entertainment systems. Its services allow subscribers to search and discover music collections of friends, artists, and celebrities; build a personal collection playlist; and share music on Spotify, Facebook, Twitter, blog, and via email with friends. It also offers research and development services in Sweden. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Spotify AB operates as a subsidiary of Spotify Technology S.A.

Lime

Series D in 2019
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.

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.

Kraken Bitcoin Exchange

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.

Transfix, Inc.

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.

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.

Flipkart

Secondary Market in 2017
Flipkart India Private Limited operates an e-commerce marketplace that engages in the wholesale trading/distribution of books, mobiles, computers and related accessories, apparel, home and furniture products, sports and books, and others online products. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Bengaluru, India. Flipkart India Private Limited operates as a subsidiary of Flipkart Private Limited.

Spotify

Series G in 2015
Spotify AB provides a digital music-streaming service that gives on-demand access of songs on devices, computers, mobiles, tablets, and home entertainment systems. Its services allow subscribers to search and discover music collections of friends, artists, and celebrities; build a personal collection playlist; and share music on Spotify, Facebook, Twitter, blog, and via email with friends. It also offers research and development services in Sweden. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Spotify AB operates as a subsidiary of Spotify Technology S.A.

Quanergy Systems, Inc.

Secondary Market in 2018
Quanergy Systems, Inc. develops and markets light detection and ranging(LiDAR) sensors and smart perception software solutions. It offers mechanical LiDAR sensors for mapping, security, and smart city and smart space applications. The company also provides solid state LiDAR sensors. In addition, it offers Flow Management Platform, a 3D AI-powered LiDAR flow management technology that provides a perception platform to enable real-time analysis for people counting, object detection, classification, tracking, and more. The company’s products are used in various applications, such as mapping, security, smart city & smart spaces, industrial automation, and transportation applications. Quanergy Systems, Inc. was formerly known as Quanergy, Inc. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Rent the Runway

Secondary Market in 2019
Rent the Runway, Inc. rents designer dresses, clothing, and accessories for women through its stores and online platform. It offers party dresses, gowns, jumpsuits and rompers, outer wear tops and bottoms, jackets, coats, jewelry, handbags, scarves, hats, and sunglasses. Rent the Runway, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in New York, New York. It has stores in New York, New York; San Francisco and Santa Monica, California; and Washington, District Of Columbia.

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.

Postmates Inc.

Series F in 2019
Postmates is an on-demand food delivery. The platform gives customers access to the most selection of merchants in the US with more than 600,000 restaurants and retailers available for delivery and pickup, many of which are exclusive to Postmates. The market leader in Los Angeles and markets across the southwest, Postmates covers 80% of US households, across all 50 states. Customers can get free delivery on all merchants by joining Postmates Unlimited, the industry's first subscription service.

Pinterest

Secondary Market in 2017
Pinterest, Inc. provides visual discovery engine in the United States and internationally. The company’s engine allows people to find inspiration for their lives, including recipes, home and style ideas, travel destinations, and others. It shows them visual recommendations based on people personal taste and interests. The company was formerly known as Cold Brew Labs Inc. and changed its name to Pinterest, Inc. in April 2012. Pinterest, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Rent the Runway

Secondary Market in 2017
Rent the Runway, Inc. rents designer dresses, clothing, and accessories for women through its stores and online platform. It offers party dresses, gowns, jumpsuits and rompers, outer wear tops and bottoms, jackets, coats, jewelry, handbags, scarves, hats, and sunglasses. Rent the Runway, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in New York, New York. It has stores in New York, New York; San Francisco and Santa Monica, California; and Washington, District Of Columbia.

DraftKings Inc.

Series F in 2018
DraftKings Inc. operates as a digital sports entertainment and gaming company in the United States. The company provides users with daily sports, sports betting, and iGaming opportunities. It is also involved in the design and development of sports betting and casino gaming platform software for online and retail sportsbook, and casino gaming products. The company distributes its product offerings through various channels, including traditional websites, direct app downloads, and direct-to-consumer digital platforms. DraftKings Inc. is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bloom Energy Corporation

Secondary Market in 2018
Bloom Energy Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells solid-oxide fuel cell systems. It offers Bloom Energy Server, a stationary power generation platform that converts standard low-pressure natural gas or biogas into electricity through an electrochemical process without combustion. The company was formerly known as Ion America Corp. and changed its name to Bloom Energy Corporation in September 2006. Bloom Energy Corporation was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Postmates Inc.

Secondary Market in 2017
Postmates is an on-demand food delivery. The platform gives customers access to the most selection of merchants in the US with more than 600,000 restaurants and retailers available for delivery and pickup, many of which are exclusive to Postmates. The market leader in Los Angeles and markets across the southwest, Postmates covers 80% of US households, across all 50 states. Customers can get free delivery on all merchants by joining Postmates Unlimited, the industry's first subscription service.

SoFi

Secondary Market in 2017
SoFi is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services. The company primarily caters to early-stage professionals and offers variable and fixed rate parent, personal, and MBA loans, mortgage refinancing, and more. They create modern financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect their money better so that they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions from owning a home to saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, and more. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Lyft

Secondary Market in 2017
Lyft designs, markets, and operates a mobile application that matches drivers with passengers who request rides, and also allows payment through the app. It also allows riders to schedule rides up to seven days in advance. Its services are primarily focused on college, university, and corporate communities. Lyft is a fast-growing ridesharing company in the U.S. and is available to 95 percent of the US population. Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer in San Francisco, California.

Udemy, Inc.

Secondary Market in 2019
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.

HotelTonight

Secondary Market in 2017
HotelTonight, Inc. provides mobile applications for booking same-day unsold hotel deals. It offers a marketplace for hotels to fill tonight only and last-minute rooms that would otherwise remain empty; and enables guests to book the deals using their smartphones and tablets. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of April 15, 2019, HotelTonight, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Airbnb, Inc.

Turo

Series E in 2019
Turo Inc. operates an online car rental marketplace that enables local car owners to list their cars and travelers to rent them for local pickup, city delivery, and airport delivery. It enables users to calculate and discover what their car could earn for them. Turo, Inc. was formerly known as RelayRides, Inc. and changed its name to Turo, Inc. in November 2015. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

SpaceX, Inc.

Secondary Market in 2018
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.

Automattic Inc.

Secondary Market in 2020
Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com and WordPress.com VIP, the cloud version of WordPress. Automattic hosts and supports all WordPress.com sites ensuring that there is continuous and strategic development of the software available to its users. Automattic also supports WordPress.com VIP, a premium service designed for large-scale enterprises. WordPress.com VIP combines the benefits of WordPress.com and the ability to run custom code. In addition, WordPress.com VIP offers companies a robust CMS and 24/7 service.

Robinhood Markets, Inc.

Secondary Market in 2020
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission. The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. It also provides a stock brokerage platform that democratizes access to the financial markets and aims to make people comfortable storing money and trading stocks using its application. Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt established the company in Menlo Park, California in 2013.

Palantir Technologies

Secondary Market in 2017
Palantir Technologies offers a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, fighting fraud, and analyzing information. The software allows analysts within and between government organizations to collaborate and to analyze large quantities of data. Stephen Cohen, Alexander Karp, Garry Tan, Nathan Gettings, and Peter Thiel established the company in Denver, Colorado in 2003.

Airbnb, Inc.

Series E in 2015
Airbnb, Inc. operates a platform for stays and experiences to guests worldwide. The company’s marketplace model connects hosts and guests online or through mobile devices to book spaces and experiences. It primarily offers private rooms and luxury villas. The company was formerly known as AirBed & Breakfast, Inc. and changed its name to Airbnb, Inc. in November 2010. Airbnb, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Coinbase Support

Secondary Market in 2018
Coinbase is an online platform that allows merchants, consumers, and traders to transact with digital currency. It allows its users to create their own bitcoin wallets and start buying or selling bitcoins by connecting with their bank accounts. In addition, it provides a series of merchant payment processing systems and tools that support many highly-trafficked websites on the internet. Coinbase was launched in 2012 with a mission to create an open financial system for the world. It is operated from San Francisco, California.

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

Series D in 2019
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.

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.

Manhattan Venture Partners

Secondary Market in 2017
Manhattan Venture Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in secondary investments in late stage companies. It also invests in pre-IPO late-stage companies. The firm seeks to invest in the technology sector. Manhattan Venture Partners was formed in 2014 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in New York, New York and San Francisco, California.

Lyft

Secondary Market in 2019
Lyft designs, markets, and operates a mobile application that matches drivers with passengers who request rides, and also allows payment through the app. It also allows riders to schedule rides up to seven days in advance. Its services are primarily focused on college, university, and corporate communities. Lyft is a fast-growing ridesharing company in the U.S. and is available to 95 percent of the US population. Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer in San Francisco, California.

Flexport

Secondary Market in 2019
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.

Zocdoc

Secondary Market in 2017
Zocdoc, Inc. owns and operates an online platform to search and book doctors' appointments. Additionally, it offers doctors’ reviews; appointment and preventive check-up reminders; and online paper-work services. The company focuses on chiropractors, dentists, dermatologists, eye doctors, gynecologists, primary care doctors, and psychiatrists. Zocdoc, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

DocuSign

Secondary Market in 2017
DocuSign, Inc. provides cloud based transaction products and services in the United States. The company offers e-signature solution that enables businesses to digitally prepare, execute, and act on agreements. It serves large enterprises, sole proprietorships, small- to medium-sized businesses, professionals, and individuals. The company was 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Asana, Inc.

Secondary Market in 2020
Asana, Inc. operates a work management platform for individuals, team leads, and executives. It provides work management platform as software as service that enables individuals and teams to get work done faster while enhancing employee engagement by allowing everyone to see how their work connects to the broader mission of an organization. The company was formerly known as Smiley Abstractions, Inc. and changed its name to Asana, Inc. in July 2009. Asana, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.