Manhattan Venture Partners

Jared Carmel, CEO and Founding Partner, leads the firm's investment strategy and broker-dealer operations. General Partner Andrea Lamari Walne is a central figure in managing institutional relationships and deal execution. The firm maintains a deliberately compact senior team, with investment committee decisions driven directly by the partnership.

MVP sources pre-IPO shares primarily through direct relationships with founders, early employees, and venture capital backers of late-stage private technology companies. Its registered broker-dealer status allows it to directly approach sellers and legally execute secondary transactions without external intermediaries. This sourcing model depends on deep connectivity within the New York and Silicon Valley technology ecosystems.

Manhattan Venture Partners operates as a hybrid structure. It maintains a registered broker-dealer entity that executes secondary trades on behalf of buyers and sellers, and an affiliated investment management arm that invests directly in secondary-market shares. This dual structure is distinct from conventional venture firms that buy only primary issuance or fund-of-funds that access secondaries through outside platforms.

Manhattan Venture Partners focuses on direct secondary transactions in shares of individual private companies rather than investing as a limited partner in venture capital funds. Its model is built around acquiring specific pre-IPO positions and organizing them into vehicles for institutional buyers, which keeps the firm's exposure tied to company-level outcomes rather than fund-level pooled returns.

MVP concentrates on large, late-stage technology companies with near-term IPO visibility. The firm's historical activity has centered on enterprise software, fintech, digital health, AI/ML, and consumer technology platforms. It prioritizes unicorns where there is established institutional demand and a known path to liquidity, rather than earlier-stage exploration.

The firm typically aggregates secondary shares into special purpose vehicles that institutional investors can access, rather than co-investing directly alongside venture general partners in primary financings. Its role is closer to an intermediary and aggregator of pre-IPO shares than a traditional co-investor alongside the company's existing venture backers.

Because MVP operates its own registered broker-dealer, it can manage transaction documentation, transfer procedures, and settlement directly. For companies that impose right-of-first-refusal or board-approval requirements on share transfers, the firm works through those corporate processes as a regulated intermediary, providing a compliant path that unregistered platforms cannot offer.