Jared Carmel

Bloomberg Top 10 VC Fund Performance (1H 2025): MVP All-Star Funds II & III both ranked in top 10 best performing VC funds under $500M AUM. PitchBook Top 5 US, Top 10 Global Secondary Investor. Secondary Market OG according to TechCrunch. ;) I solve the liquidity problem for late-stage companies and their shareholders after we land in primary rounds. As a Founder and Managing Partner of Manhattan Venture Partners, I’ve pioneered institutionalizing secondary markets since 2014, growing MVP from startup to $1.5B AUM. My “Land and Expand” strategy - entering at Series C+ then expanding through secondaries has delivered top decile net DPI with ~4-year hold periods, significantly outperforming industry averages. What I Do: -Provide liquidity solutions for high-growth companies stuck in the “private market trap” -Help employees and early investors access pre-IPO capital without company dilution -Connect institutional capital with Tomorrow’s IPOs Today™ Portfolio Highlights: Current: Anthropic, Databricks, Cohere, Cohesity, Epic Games, Epirus, Figure AI, Groq, HawkEye360, Klarna, Kodiak Robotics, Lime, RapidSOS, Revolut, SpaceX, xAI Exit: Airbnb, Coinbase, DocuSign, Lyft, Palantir, Pinterest, Spotify, X (Twitter) We created Secondary-as-a-Service™, providing programmatic liquidity solutions that institutionalize secondary transactions for private companies. Manhattan Venture Research became the industry gold standard for private company analysis - 16,000+ subscribers, available on Bloomberg terminals globally. MVP operates globally from NYC headquarters across seven cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Mexico City, Istanbul, Dubai. Featured regularly on Bloomberg, CNBC, WSJ, CNN, TechCrunch. Investment Focus: AI/ML, Robotics, Defense Tech, Fintech, Space Technology, SaaS, Marketplaces University at Buffalo grad, father of three, eternally optimistic Jets fan. Building liquidity infrastructure for the private markets, one company at a time.