Investing Profile

Josh Manchester(841)

General Partner at Champion Hill Ventures

linkedin.com/in/josh-manchest...Raleigh, North Carolina

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Josh Manchester's investing connections

45 Investors

Connected to Satya Patel (Homebrew), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Ryan Walsh (Quest Analytics), and 42 other investors on Signal.

Networks Josh is a member of

NewCo Network

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Top-Patents Network

1029 CONNECTIONS

University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory Network

841 CONNECTIONS

Center for Rural Health Leadership Network

432 CONNECTIONS

Center for Rural Health Leadership Network

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Current Investing Position

Champion Hill Ventures General Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $10.0M

Sweet Spot

$250K

Investments On Record

Josh Manchester's Investments On Record (10)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Keeper	Pre SeedOct 2024$4M	$20M
Co-investors: Jack Altman (Benchmark), Jude Gomila (Golden (Recursion Inc)), Mathias Schilling (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Jake Jolis (Zeno Partners), Rajiv Srivatsa (Antler), Nitin Sharma (Antler), Ben Tossell (Ben Tossell's Rolling Fund), Nic Carter (Castle Island Ventures), Jonathan Swanson (Thumbtack), John Neamonitis (Lakehouse Ventures), Aly Madhavji (Blockchain Founders Fund), Hari Raghavan (Autopilot Fund), John Durant (Wild Ventures), Wayne Chang (Techstars), Ilya Volodarsky (Convective Capital), Alexandre Scialom, Francis Pedraza, Jeff Seibert, Brandon Goldman
Swarm Aero	Pre SeedMay 2022$2M	$37M
Co-investors: Leo Polovets (Susa Ventures), Jackson Moses (Afore Capital), Matthew Caspari (Alumni Ventures ), Dayna Grayson (Construct Capital), Jai Malik (Countdown Capital), Colin Beirne (Two Sigma Ventures), Ron Pragides
Anduril Industries	Pre-SeedApr 2022	$9.3B
Co-investors: Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Katherine Boyle (Andreessen Horowitz), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Trae Stephens (Founders Fund), David Ulevitch (Andreessen Horowitz), Paul Kwan (General Catalyst), Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Will Kohler (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Jackson Moses (Afore Capital), Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Brian Rabben (Rabben Hood Ventures), Jack Campbell (Signal Bay Capital), Michael Chase (Outliers Fund), Stephen Romanoff (Mentat Private Credit Fund I, LP), Stu Shea (01 Advisors), Ana Levine (E1 Ventures), Sebastian Bausch (11k Ventures), Mircea Pasoi (Stealth Capital), Mislav Tolusic (Marlinspike), Ross Fubini (XYZ Venture Capital), Aatish Patel (Other Ventures), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Greg Castle (Anorak Ventures), Geoff Lewis (Bedrock Capital), Brian Singerman (The Founders Fund), Aly Walji (Sparq Capital (SFO)), Fanny Surjana, Mattia Astori, Thomas Tull, Richard Cooperstein, William Miller
Skiff	SeedMay 2021$4M	$15M
Co-investors: John Lilly (Greylock), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Beth Turner (SV Angel), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Eugene Marinelli (Conversion Capital), Ali Partovi (Minttown), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Balaji Srinivasan, Guy Podjarny, John Hennessy, Ameet Patel, Julia Hartz, Charlie Songhurst, David Petersen
Field Complete	Pre SeedOct 2020$2M	$4M
Co-investors: Jon Oringer (Shutterstock), Edward Lando (Biowear), Sam Huleatt (NextGen Venture Partners), Kevin Weatherman (Stealth Company (Jean-Michel Autelli)), Jeremy Yap (Causal), Charlie Songhurst, David Petersen, John Carleton, George Burke
Radiant	AngelSep 2020$1M	$520M
Co-investors: David Ulevitch (Andreessen Horowitz), Rachel Slaybaugh (DCVC (Data Collective)), Tim Draper (Draper Associates), Laura Rippy (Alumni Ventures ), Adam Draper (Boost VC), Scott Nolan (The Founders Fund), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Mike Annunziata (Also Capital), Chris Moran (Lockheed Martin Ventures), Fred Wilson (Flatiron Partners), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Hank Vigil (Acequia Capital), Tom McInerney (TGM), Colin Anderson (Friends & Family Capital), Charlie Songhurst, Kevin Lin, Justin Mateen
Umbra Labs	SeedNov 2019$1M	$1M
Co-investors: Jules Walker (Ravix Group), Michael Mealling (Starbridge Venture Capital), Mathieu Guerville, Kurt Bilafer
Umbra	SeedApr 2019$10M Pre SeedMar 2018$2M	$87M
Co-investors: Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Stephen Hays (What If Ventures), Andrew Romans (7BC Venture Capital), Brian Garrett (Crosscut Ventures), Luigi Bajetti (LombardStreet Ventures)

Josh Manchester's Media (1)

Venture-backed Startups Will Build the Defense Technology the Free World Needs Right Now

medium.com

most interested in

We are one of the few firms that will invest in defense, and yes we will invest in weapons if it makes sense to do so. Past investments are SpaceX (2014), Anduril (2017), Umbra (2018), Modern Intelligence (2021) We are also keenly interested in digital sovereignty: Eco.com, Skiff.com, Keys.casa, and the Urbit ecosystem (Uqbar, Tirrel, Zorp etc). We have a bucket for curveballs: things that don't fit in buckets. Flexport (2015), Brella (2019) Fount.bio (2019) Coop.farm (2022).

not interested in

We feel that the world doesn't need the n+1 investor in enterprise SaaS, mainstream fintech, or ecommerce. We are most interested in things for which nobody knows who the best investors in the world are.

Josh Manchester's Experience

General Partner Champion Hill VenturesPresent

Managing Principal Champion Hill LabsPresent

Captain United States Marine CorpsPresent

Development Analyst USAA Real Estate CompanyPresent

Second Lieutenant/First Lieutenant United States Marine CorpsPresent

Captain marine corpsPresent

Second Lieutenant/First Lieutenant marine corpsPresent

Managing Principal Top-PatentsPresent

Managing Principal NewCoPresent

General Partner Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent

Venture Partner Foundation CapitalPresent