Manhattan Venture Partners

Manhattan Venture Partners “MVP” is a research-driven merchant-banking firm focused on the emerging secondary market for late-stage private technology companies. We provide direct and managed secondary investment opportunities, deploy capital as principals, and provide advisory services. We act as a partner and work with companies, angel and venture capital investors, executives and current/former employees to provide them the liquidity and diversification that they need and want in a professional and efficient manner.

There is a fundamental structure change taking place in the venture capital industry and with venture-capital backed companies in general: companies are staying private longer; raising significant rounds of late-stage private funding pre-IPO; are going public at substantial larger pre-money valuations than a decade ago. Public markets investors are hungry for, but generally unable to access, these fast growing, late-stage companies’ return potential.

MVP also provides clients with accurate, timely and innovative research into the companies and sectors we cover. To that end we established an experienced team of analysts, researchers, economists and industry veterans that focus exclusively on private companies with a proven track record of success. Producing quality research on a private company is uniquely challenging. Our analysts communicate with employees, ex-employees, early investors, VCs, competitors, suppliers and others to gather valuable information about the companies under coverage. This information enables us to create unique financial models that value the underlying company and provide insight to our clients and industry experts, leveraging years of experience working for bulge bracket firms. This proprietary ecosystem of relationships also affords our private and institutional client base a unique opportunity to access pre-IPO equity allocations in many of these enterprises they otherwise would not be able to attain