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What does Manhattan West invest in?
Manhattan West invests most often at Series A (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as AI, Defense and Space.
Manhattan West highlights
- 01
2 cheques in the last 12 months
- 02
Mostly Series A: 100% of its rounds
- 03
Led 1 rounds
What they do
Manhattan West combines tailored wealth management with direct access to select private market investments.From their own website
- Type
- Family office (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries A
- Sectors
- AIDefenseSpace
- Based in
- Los Angeles, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first2 appearances
- 2026
2 rounds
- Aug
- Apr
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration6 named
GGGabe GarciaChief Financial OfficeriForm ADV
HWHubert William RyanChief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
JMJames Michael MccoyChief Operating OfficeriForm ADV
KEKate Elizabeth KurzChief Administrative OfficeriForm ADV
LDLorenzo Daniel EsparzaManager of General PartneriFiling they signed
MJMatthew Jeremy WeitzGeneral CounseliForm ADV
We also hold 33 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$1.2Bassets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Manhattan WEST Asset Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 283630
Funds on its Form ADV
43 private funds, $506M in gross assets · filed Jul 2024
Venture 36Private equity 5Private debt fund 2
- MWLSV EPIC Games-Ii,llcVenture39 investors$91M
- MWLSV EPIC Games-I, LLCVenture28 investors$71M
- Manhattan West Finance Fund III, LLCPrivate debt fund91 investors$36M
- MW LSVC Redwood LLCVenture97 investors$33M
- MWAM VC Impossible Foods-I, LLCVenture80 investors$22M
- Manhattan West Venture Capital Fund, L.P.Venture91 investors$21M
- Manhatan West Private Equity Fund, LLCPrivate equity92 investors$19M
- MWAM VC Brady SX, LLCVenture10 investors$17M
- MWPE Exhibition II, LLCPrivate equity68 investors$16M
- Manhattan West Finance Fund IV, LLCPrivate debt fund27 investors$15M
And 33 more on the filing.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
15 of 22 we have independently watched raise
100 ThievesAxiom SpaceDatabricks logo ArtificialDiscord logo Consumer DiscordFunction HealthImpossible FoodsKalshi logo FinancialKraken logo FinancialLambda SchoolMasterClass logo Consumer MasterClassPlaid logo FinancialPolymarketRedwood MaterialsRelativity logo Space RelativityShield AIAman logo RealFINRA BrokerCheckFinalis Securities LLCSIPCTechStyle logo Consumer TechStyleVise logo FinancialZapp logo Consumer Zapp
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.