Jared Carmel
Father, Husband, and Managing Partner in New York
After co-founding fintech startup Citizen.vc and building secondary funds while driving investments in Twitter, Palantir, and Spotify at G Squared (Gentry), I founded Manhattan Venture Partners in 2014 with a contrarian thesis: venture-backed companies were staying private too long, creating massive liquidity gaps.
We built MVP from an idea to $1.5B in AUM by seeing what others missed in the secondary market. As Managing Partner, I guide our global team across New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Mexico City, Istanbul, and Dubai - establishing MVP as the industry leader in secondary market innovation.
Since late 2009, I’ve been instrumental in institutionalizing the Direct Secondary market, contributing billions in primary and secondary venture investments. We solved the liquidity gap with our “Land and Expand” strategy - entering at Series C and expanding through secondaries. The results speak for themselves:
• 64 portfolio companies across AI, robotics, and transformative tech
• 2.2x average net DPI with <4-year hold periods (vs industry’s 13+ years)
• 18 IPOs including Coinbase, Palantir, Spotify, Airbnb, DraftKings
• Current winners: xAI, Figure AI, Groq, Anthropic, Epic Games, Klarna, Revolut
What sets us apart isn’t just returns - it’s how we’ve institutionalized secondary markets through our proprietary Secondary-as-a-Service™ platform. We’re not just investors; we’re market makers creating liquidity where none existed, delivering efficient, transparent, and compliant solutions to private companies and shareholders.
I helped conceptualize Manhattan Venture Research, the first team to provide detailed analysis of private tech giants. Our pioneering reports on companies like Spotify, Palantir, SpaceX, Uber, and Airbnb became the gold standard, offering investors unparalleled insights into private markets.
Leading MVP All-Star Fund V, I focus on companies reshaping entire industries. Whether it’s humanoid robotics, space intelligence, or emergency response, we back founders building global resilience into our future. Our pattern recognition in AI and robotics is unmatched.
The media calls when markets move - CNBC, WSJ, CNN, TechCrunch - because we consistently identify inflection points before they’re obvious.
University at Buffalo grad, father of three, and eternally optimistic Jets fan. Always looking for the next company that will define tomorrow.
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