# Manhattan West

> Manhattan West is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Fund size: $250k
- Last fund: Jan 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/manhattan-west-enterprise-llc/mycompany/?viewAsMember=true
- X (Twitter): https://mobile.twitter.com/mwestasset
- Website: https://mwestasset.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100072325795367

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 theAlternatives 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.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 7 | 17% |
| FinTech | 6 | 15% |
| Payments | 5 | 12% |
| Software | 5 | 12% |
| Finance | 4 | 10% |

83 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 11 | 27% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 15% |
| Private Equity | 5 | 12% |
| Secondary Market | 4 | 10% |
| Seed | 3 | 7% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 27 | 66% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 5% |
| China | 1 | 2% |
| Sweden | 1 | 2% |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lorenzo Esparza | CEO and Founding Principal | 1 | — |
| Matt Gibbons | Managing Director - Private Equity | 3 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ByteDance | ByteDance creates and operates various content platforms, including TikTok and Douyin, enabling users to connect, create, and consume content. The company focuses on enriching lives through innovative technology and has expanded its offerings to include tools for content creation and collaboration. | $300M | Secondary Market | Nov 20, 2025 |  |
| Agility | Agility develops humanoid robots and automation platforms for warehouse, manufacturing, and logistics operations. It provides robotic deployment solutions and software platforms that support industrial automation and the handling of repetitive tasks. The company also offers software platforms to manage and support robotic operations in industrialenvironments. |  | Series C | Sep 10, 2025 |  |
| Zapp | Zapp provides on-demand delivery services. It is building the future of convenience with a full-stack approach to on-demand essential items, 24/7, delivered in minutes. It is backed by the worlds leading investors and our team has scale-up and exit experience at companies such as Amazon, Jumia, Deliveroo, Tesco, Stuart, and Just Eat.Thecompany was founded in 2020 and is based in Kent, United Kingdom. | $1.5M |  | Mar 25, 2025 |  |
| Good Good Golf | Good Good Golf is an omni-channel entertainment platform designed to share the game of golf. | $45M |  | Mar 20, 2025 |  |
| Anthropic | Anthropic conducts AI research and develops AI products, including the Claude AI model family. The company focuses on building AI for human well-being, emphasizing safety in its research, policy work, and product design. Anthropic offers various Claude models, such as Opus and Sonnet, for AI-powered applications and custom experiences, supportingcoding and AI agents. | $452.3M | Secondary Market | May 31, 2024 |  |
| VOLO Sports | Volo Sports offers access to a range of sports, fitness, tournaments, social activities, and virtual events for adults above 21 of age. |  | Private Equity | Apr 18, 2024 |  |
| Epic Games | Epic Games is an American video game and software company that creates games and offers its game engine technology to other developers. It specializes in developing games and engine technology and operates a game store that empowers others to make quality games and 3D content, thereby providing game developers the ability to build high-fidelity,interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and virtual reality devices. | $1.5B | Corporate Round | Feb 07, 2024 |  |
| Redwood Materials | Redwood Materials creates a circular supply chain to drive down the environmental footprint and cost of lithium-ion batteries and the electric vehicles and sustainable energy storage systems they power. It offers recycling of end-of-life batteries and production scrap, refining of critical elements, and deployment of large-scale energy-storagesystems using second-life battery packs. | $1B | Series D | Aug 29, 2023 |  |
| Anduril Industries | Anduril Industries is a defense product company that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance. Anduril commits top technical talent to solving the most complex national security challenges. We’re building the next generation of technology that will aid and protect those who serve on the front lines defending the nation andits interests.Our mission is to develop cutting edge technology that enables America and its allies to maintain global leadership now and into the future. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 19, 2023 |  |
| Epic Games | Epic Games is an American video game and software company that creates games and offers its game engine technology to other developers. It specializes in developing games and engine technology and operates a game store that empowers others to make quality games and 3D content, thereby providing game developers the ability to build high-fidelity,interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and virtual reality devices. |  | Corporate Round | Dec 27, 2022 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manhattan-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GoalVest Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goalvest-advisory-eaa5) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Manhattan West invest in?

Manhattan West invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Payments startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Funding Round stage. Most of the 41 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Manhattan West?

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### Who are the partners at Manhattan West?

The team at Manhattan West includes Lorenzo Esparza (CEO and Founding Principal) and Matt Gibbons (Managing Director - Private Equity). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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