Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP)
VC Fund
New York, United States
Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP) is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and E-Commerce. MVP is a principal investor and advisory specializing in the secondary market for private venture-backed technology companies. MVP pioneered the institutionalization of this once-democratized asset class.Since 2010, the partners at MVP VC have been integral in the institutionalization of the Direct Secondary market. We are pioneers in this space,and the partners have collectively engaged in more than $10B of primary and secondary venture investments. Our belief is that Direct Secondaries are the evolution of the Secondary LP investing strategy established in the early 1980s and should be treated accordingly.MVP differentiates itself through its unique research and ability to streamline the secondary process by being a principal and advisory to private companies and their shareholders, as well as GPs and LPs. This is accomplished by bringing together the full expertise of our Secondary as a Service™ platform, investment banking expertise, research team, and the All-Star Funds (~$1B AUM Jan 2022).
- Total investments:
- 138
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
- Last fund:
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Industries Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP) invests in
Stages Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP) invests in
Countries Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP) invests in
Contacts
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Andrea Lamari
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Eric Brachfeld
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Jared Carmel
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Kevin Cohen
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Nicholas Gupta
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 17 (12%)
- E-Commerce 8 (6%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (6%)
- Analytics 7 (5%)
- Marketplace 7 (5%)
Stage
- Secondary Market 42 (30%)
- Series D 11 (8%)
- Series E 9 (7%)
- Series C 8 (6%)
- Series F 5 (4%)
Country
- United States 59 (43%)
- India 2 (1%)
- Sweden 2 (1%)
- China 1 (1%)
- Brazil 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Andrea Lamari
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Eric Brachfeld
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
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Jared Carmel
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 84 | Find email | |
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Kevin Cohen
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Nicholas Gupta
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Mach Industries
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Mach Industries provides technology solutions for defense systems that are built using techniques for producing and combusting hydrogen from sources found in the field. | $300M / Series C / Jun 01, 2026 | |
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Mach Industries
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Mach Industries provides technology solutions for defense systems that are built using techniques for producing and combusting hydrogen from sources found in the field. | $300M / Series C / Jun 01, 2026 | |
Decart
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Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models. | $300M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 18, 2026 | |
xAI
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XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe. | $20B / Series E / Jan 06, 2026 | |
Radiant
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Radiant is a technology company that develops portable nuclear microreactors designed to generate electricity and heat in a compact, factory-built form. The company’s flagship product, Kaleidos, is engineered to be transportable to customer sites and to replace traditional power sources such as diesel generators for applications including backuppower and continuous energy supply. Radiant manages design, assembly, fueling, and testing of its reactors with a focus on modular deployment and energy generation without on-site water requirements. It also undertakes infrastructure planning for reactor production facilities to support broader availability of its microreactors. Radiant engages with regulatory processes and industry partners to advance testing and commercialization of its nuclear energy solutions. | $300M / Series D / Dec 17, 2025 | |
Chaos
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Chaos Industries is a technology company that is building the next generation of defense and critical industry technologies. Applying an engineering-led strategy, Chaos provides mission-driven, world-class engineers with a platform to build solutions to critical real-world problems. The Chaos agile engineering approach enables rapid prototyping,while deep partnerships with defense and industry ensure real-world application. | $510M / Series D / Nov 13, 2025 | |
Base Power
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Base Power provides home battery systems, retail electricity services, and energy management solutions for residential customers. The company installs battery storage systems that provide backup power during outages and help manage electricity usage. Its platform combines distributed battery storage with electricity services to support home energymanagement and grid operations. | $1B / Series C / Oct 08, 2025 | |
Cohere
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Cohere develops artificial intelligence solutions for enterprises, focusing on natural language processing and large language model deployments. The company offers API-based access to models that support tasks such as summarization, search, classification, and content generation. It enables organizations to integrate these models into internalsystems across regulated industries, including finance and healthcare. Cohere provides infrastructure that is cloud-agnostic and can be deployed on-premise or across public clouds. It also supports retrieval-augmented generation and offers tooling designed to align models with enterprise data and compliance needs. In addition to its core technology, | $100M / Series D / Sep 24, 2025 | |
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Cohere
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Cohere develops artificial intelligence solutions for enterprises, focusing on natural language processing and large language model deployments. The company offers API-based access to models that support tasks such as summarization, search, classification, and content generation. It enables organizations to integrate these models into internalsystems across regulated industries, including finance and healthcare. Cohere provides infrastructure that is cloud-agnostic and can be deployed on-premise or across public clouds. It also supports retrieval-augmented generation and offers tooling designed to align models with enterprise data and compliance needs. In addition to its core technology, | $100M / Series D / Sep 24, 2025 | |
Groq
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Groq is a technology company that designs and provides specialized artificial intelligence compute solutions focused on accelerating AI inference workloads using its custom-built Language Processing Unit (LPU) hardware and associated software stack. The company’s core products include purpose-designed silicon and cloud-accessible platforms thatsupport real-time execution of large language models and other AI tasks with low latency and high throughput, enabling developers and enterprises to integrate AI services into production environments efficiently. Groq also delivers cloud-based services that allow customers to access inference capabilities via APIs compatible with popular development tools, supporting seamless integration into existing AI workflows. Its engineering efforts emphasise deterministic performance and streamlined deployment, targeting use cases where speed and cost predictability are critical. Groq engages with partners and customers across sectors that require rapid AI inferencing, and the company’s technology has attracted significant strategic interest and investment within the broader AI infrastructure ecosystem. | $750M / Series E / Sep 17, 2025 | |
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FAQ
What does Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP) invest in?
Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP) invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Secondary Market and Series D stage. Most of the 138 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP)?
The team at Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP) includes Andrea Lamari (General Partner), Eric Brachfeld (Managing Partner) and Jared Carmel (Managing Partner), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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