Jared Carmel is a Founder and Managing Partner of Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP), a $3.7B venture secondary platform he co-founded in 2014 and built into a top-decile manager and one of the most active institutional secondary direct investors in the world. A pioneer of the institutional venture secondary market, Jared originated MVP's Land and Expand™ strategy, entering at Series C+ alongside leading VCs and scaling into the winners through secondaries, and the Secondary is Primary™ thesis that now anchors how the category is understood.
Under his leadership, Bloomberg ranked MVP's All-Star Fund V the #1 venture fund globally under $500MM by net IRR, following prior Bloomberg Top 10 placements for Funds II and III, and PitchBook ranks MVP among the Top 10 global secondary investors by transaction volume.
