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Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP) is a venture capital firm focused on the secondary direct market for late-stage venture-backed technology companies. MVP purchases shares from existing shareholders, such as employees, Angel investors, early-stage venture capitalists (VCs), traditional VCs, and more.
MVP sells the shares to family offices, high-net worth individuals, and institutions interested in securing equity in late-stage private technology companies. As of June, 2021, MVP's involvement in tech investments has helped produce over $2 billion in invested capital across more than thirty businesses, with over twenty liquidity events.
Manhattan Venture Research also offers research services pertaining to late-stage venture capital financed technology companies and the ecosystems in which they operate. These services are offered through VNTR Securities LLC—a wholly-owned subsidiary of Manhattan Venture Partners.
The MVP Team is specifically focused on researching specific private companies and informing investors on the effects that the global macro landscape has on them. As part of its assessment process, MVP conducts channel checks with suppliers, customers, and investors, adhering to fundamental bottom-up, microeconomic as well as top-down, macroeconomic criteria.
MVR claims it was the first company to initiate private market coverage on Facebook, Twitter, Square, Pinterest, Cloudera, Spotify, Pandora, Alibaba, and more.
MVR releases the monthly Venture Bytes newsletter publicly to provide information to prospective investors. This report highlights topical areas, trends, and emerging opportunities in the global technology industry.
The newsletter also contains the "Liquidity Watchlist" — a proprietary list of the top-25 private companies in the technology, media, and telecom (TMT) sector selected and ranked according to the likelihood of undergoing a liquidity event within eighteen months. The ranking is based on a series of quantitative and qualitative factors from a pool of 325 companies.
MVP has appeared in industry publications such as Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New York Times, CNBC, and Bloomberg.
The company also provides ready-made research reports on prominent companies for accredited investors, including Coinbase, Slack, SpaceX, Uber, Airbnb, Pinterest, Spotify, and more.
MVP provides a library of private company fact sheets for accredited investors, which includes companies such as Flexport, Flipkart, GitHub, Palantir, Wish, and more.
Transactions completed by MVP Partners prior to the establishment of MVP include 23andMe, Facebook, Alibaba, LinkedIn, Redfin, and Twitter.