Jared Carmel

Jared Carmel is a co-founder of Manhattan Venture Partners and a pioneer in the ‘Secondary Market’ for pre-IPO technology companies. His primary focus is providing liquidity and diversification for shareholders of illiquid, high profile, venture-backed private companies.

Over the last fifteen years, Jared has worked on a variety of assignments, including early and late-stage venture capital, private investment in public equity (PIPE), M&A projects and secondary direct stock offerings. This has lead to extensive experience in investment banking, business operations, acquisition integration and board work. His involvement in pre-IPO technology investments has helped produce over $1 billion in invested capital to date across some 30+ businesses with >20 liquidity events.

Outside of Jared’s activity in the secondary markets, he also makes opportunistic growth equity investments in traditional venture capital. Some of his more notable investments include Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, Spotify, Palantir, Lyft, Pinterest, DocuSign, SoFi, Wish, Rent the Runway, MoneyLion, and Flipkart.

Before launching Manhattan Venture Partners, Jared was a co-Founder of Citizen VC, Inc., a financial technology, and investment firm. He oversaw the firm’s secondary direct venture capital activities, including managed funds and brokered transactions. Before founding Citizen VC, Jared was Managing Director, Director of Secondary Markets at Gentry Venture Partners (GSV Ventures now G Squared). During his tenure at, Jared built the firm’s secondary markets practice and led investments into some of the fastest growing and exclusive startups in Silicon Valley. Before Gentry, Jared was a pioneer in the secondary direct venture market sector, originating and funding investments in such companies as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Groupon and Chegg, among others. In 2006, Jared spearheaded the effort to build the New York office of AEFC a late-stage venture capital investment bank. Ultimately, the New York office raised more than $100 million annually to co-invest alongside top VCs, predominantly for TMT and clean technology companies. In 2004 Jared started in banking at Laidlaw & Company, where he focused on alternative investments, as well as primary and secondary offerings for public companies seeking growth capital.

Jared has been interviewed by many leading industry publications such as CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CNN Money, CNN Tech, MarketWatch, Silicon Valley Business Journal, BuzzFeed News, and The Information.

Mr. Carmel graduated with a BA from the University at Buffalo School of Informatics. He holds FINRA Series 7 and Series 63 licenses.