Manhattan West

Manhattan West is a first of its kind financial solutions company. The firm operates in three distinct areas that seamlessly integrate investment management with a full array of personalized services to manage your day-to-day financial life. Our Asset Management offering includes traditional equity and fixed income portfolios while the Alternatives platform leverages strength in Real Estate, Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Private Debt to deliver a meaningfully diversified portfolio. The Solutions Group offers a variety of customized solutions including Family Office Services, Business Management, Insurance, and Tax, thus uniting the intellectual capital of the firm for the benefit of our client base.

Esparza, Lorenzo

CEO, Founding Principal

Matt Gibbons

Managing Director - Private Equity

8 past transactions

Vino Vault

Private Equity Round in 2022
VINO VAULT EXISTS TO MAKE WINE COLLECTING SIMPLE, STRESS-FREE AND ENJOYABLE That starts with state-of-the-art secure storage facilities across the Vino Vault network. Our proprietary approach to secure, climate-controlled storage is adapted from the best practices our team pioneered to preserve many of the world's most valuable and rare film, music and media assets. This demanding approach to high-value asset storage is unique in the wine storage industry and is consistently applied across all Vino Vault locations. Vino Vault was created by collectors to bring the joy back to wine collection. With worry-free storage, expert wine shipping and logistics, world-renowned wine experts, white-glove auction services and a simple, powerful app where your complete collection is always available and accessible, Vino Vault members experience all of the joys of wine collecting again – and we manage everything else.

M13

Venture Round in 2022
M13 provides strategic counsel and operational expertise to help founders grow their companies. Through Fund II, M13 will expand its focus to emerging technologies driving change in consumer behavior over the next decade. Founded in 2016 with offices in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.

Better.com

Secondary Market in 2021
Better.com democratized the home-financing ecosystem, replacing it with a digitized process that eliminates commissions, fees, unnecessary steps, and time-wasting branch appointments. In addition to providing mortgage rates in seconds, Better.com’s platform offers a digital marketplace featuring competitive quotes from an array of insurance providers for the seamless purchase of a homeowner's insurance policy and instant access to leading real estate agents across the country. To date, Better.com has done $7.9B in home loans and $1B in insurance.

Klarna

Venture Round in 2021
Klarna is an e-commerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers. The platform gives customers the freedom to choose how and when to pay. The company also offers direct payments, pay-after-delivery options, and installment plans. Klarna is a regulated bank known for its “buy now, pay later” model, offering shoppers interest-free financing on retail purchases throughout installments. The Klarna app enhances the shopping experience by providing top retailers with flexible payment options and cashback rewards.

Marqeta

Secondary Market in 2021
Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform empowers its customers to create customized and innovative payment cards. Marqeta’s platform, powered by open APIs, gives its customers the ability to build more configurable and flexible payment experiences, accelerating product development and democratizing access to card-issuing technology. Its modern architecture provides instant access to highly scalable, cloud-based payment infrastructure that enables customers to launch and manage their own card programs, issue cards, and authorize and settle transactions. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California, and is certified to operate in 40 countries globally.

TechStyle Fashion Group

Venture Round in 2019
TechStyle Fashion Group is a global fashion and lifestyle retailer founded in 2010 to deliver access, quality and style for unprecedented value. TechStyle Fashion Group uniquely merges advanced technology with the latest fashion trends to offer an entirely new shopping experience to millions of customers worldwide, including 5 million VIP Members, through a portfolio of apparel and shoe brands. TechStyle Fashion Group is reimagining the business of fashion through data, personalization and vertical integration to benefit the modern shopper. TechStyle Fashion Group’s brands include JustFab, Fabletics, ShoeDazzle, Savage X Fenty and FabKids, and are available in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands.

Jetti Resources

Corporate Round in 2019
Jetti makes it possible to extract copper from low-grade primary sulfides, such as chalcopyrite, the world’s most abundant copper mineral ore. Jetti’s commercially proven and proprietary catalytic technology addresses the key technical problem preventing the recovery of trillions of dollars of trapped resources. We apply our catalysts to hundreds of millions of tons of ore, and significantly increase copper yields in a cost-effective and environmentally responsible manner.

Navan

Series C in 2018
Navan provides travel, expense, and corporate card management to automate manual processes and drive spend visibility. With one of the first enterprise technologies combining the cloud, mobile, and AI to balance business requirements with current standards, the company is reinventing the legacy category of travel and expense.
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