Manhattan Venture Partners

Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP) is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Eric Brachfeld, Evan Haymes, and Jared Carmel, specializing in late-stage, pre-IPO secondary market investments. With the positioning of 'Tomorrow's IPOs Today,' MVP manages $1.5 billion in assets under management through its All-Star Family of funds, delivering what it describes as top-decile returns three times faster than traditional VC structures. Since 2010, the three partners have collectively been involved in more than $10 billion of primary and secondary venture investments, playing a central role in institutionalizing the direct secondary market. The firm's team of 40 professionals operates a 'Secondary as a Service' platform combining principal investing, investment banking, and proprietary research. The portfolio of 70 investments spans four categories: Hyper-Growth Disruptors including xAI, Anthropic, Figure AI, and Groq; Rising All-Stars including Kodiak Robotics, Epirus, Platform Science, BlueVoyant, Capella Space, HawkEye360, and RapidSOS; Blue-Chip Late Stage including Epic Games, Klarna, SpaceX, Lime, Turo, Revolut, Kraken, Cohesity, and Kraken; and Historic Exits including Coinbase, Palantir, Spotify, Lyft, Airbnb, DraftKings, Postmates, DocuSign, and Pinterest. Recent notable investments include Epirus's Series D in March 2025 and a $125 million investment in Platform Science in April 2024. MVP provides capital and liquidity solutions to private companies, shareholders, general partners, and limited partners across the venture ecosystem. Its secondary-first model addresses a persistent need in the market — enabling founders, employees, and early investors to access liquidity from high-quality private companies without forcing premature exits — while giving institutional investors access to proven growth-stage businesses ahead of public offerings.