Investing Profile

Josh Manchester(858)

General Partner at Champion Hill Ventures

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

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Connected to 45 investors on Signal.

Networks Josh is a member of

NewCo Network

1602 CONNECTIONS

Top-Patents Network

1032 CONNECTIONS

University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory Network

837 CONNECTIONS

Calling Brands Network

657 CONNECTIONS

BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P. Network

534 CONNECTIONS

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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: Jake Jolis (Matrix Partners India), Mathias Schilling (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Jack Altman (Lattice Ventures), Alexandre Scialom (Fresh Ventures), Jude Gomila (Golden (Recursion Inc)), 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 (Underline Capital), Francis Pedraza (Visionary Ventures), John Durant (Wild Ventures), Brandon Goldman (Lionheart Ventures), Wayne Chang (Techstars), Ilya Volodarsky (Convective Capital), Jeff Seibert
Swarm Aero	Pre SeedMay 2022$2M	$37M
Co-investors: Leo Polovets (Susa Ventures), Jackson Moses (Afore Capital), Matthew Caspari (Alumni Ventures ), Jai Malik (Countdown Capital), Ron Pragides (GTMFund), Colin Beirne (Two Sigma Ventures), Dayna Grayson (Construct Capital)
Anduril Industries	Pre-SeedApr 2022	$14B
Co-investors: Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Trae Stephens (Founders Fund), David Ulevitch (Andreessen Horowitz), Katherine Boyle (Andreessen Horowitz), Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Paul Kwan (General Catalyst), Jackson Moses (Afore Capital), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Richard Cooperstein (Mighty Oaks Capital Partners), Ross Fubini (XYZ Venture Capital), Aatish Patel (Other Ventures), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Thomas Tull (US Innovative Technology), Raviraj Jain (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Will Kohler (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Ravi Mhatre (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Josh Wolfe (Lux Research), Greg Castle (Anorak Ventures), Geoff Lewis (Bedrock Capital), Brian Singerman (The Founders Fund), Aly Walji (Sparq Capital (SFO)), Peter Thiel (The Founders Fund), Michael Chase (Zero To One Capital), Jack Campbell (Signal Bay Capital), Stephen Romanoff (Mentat Private Credit Fund I, LP), Stu Shea (01 Advisors), Ana Levine (E1 Ventures), Fanny Surjana (SpaceX), Sebastian Bausch (11k Ventures), Mircea Pasoi (Global Brain Corporation), Mislav Tolusic (Marlinspike), Brian Rabben (Rabben Hood Ventures), William Miller (Transform Investments), Mattia Astori, Nick Hunley
Skiff	SeedMay 2021$4M	$15M
Co-investors: Balaji Srinivasan (Andreessen Horowitz), John Lilly (Greylock), Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Beth Turner (SV Angel), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Eugene Marinelli (Conversion Capital), Guy Podjarny (Snyk), John Hennessy (Stanford University), Ali Partovi (Xtripe Angels), Julia Hartz (UCSF Foundation Investment Company), David Petersen, Charlie Songhurst, Ameet Patel
Field Complete	Pre SeedOct 2020$2M	$4M
Co-investors: John Carleton (Self-employed), Jon Oringer (Shutterstock), Edward Lando (Biowear), Sam Huleatt (NextGen Venture Partners), Kevin Weatherman (Attentive), Jeremy Yap (Xtripe Angels), George Burke (Vela Exchange), David Petersen, Charlie Songhurst
Radiant	AngelSep 2020$1M	$520M
Co-investors: David Ulevitch (Andreessen Horowitz), Laura Rippy (Alumni Ventures ), Tim Draper (Draper Associates), Rachel Slaybaugh (DCVC (Data Collective)), Kevin Lin (Lifelike Capital), Chris Moran (Applied Materials), Justin Mateen (Unknown Ventures), Fred Wilson (Flatiron Partners), Arjun Sethi (Tribe-V Venture Capital), Hank Vigil (Financial Services, Financial Technology, and Business Services), Adam Draper (Boost VC), Tom McInerney (TGM), Scott Nolan (The Founders Fund), Will Dufton (Giant Ventures), Colin Anderson (Friends & Family Capital), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Mike Annunziata (Caffeinated Capital), Charlie Songhurst
Umbra Labs	SeedNov 2019$1M	$1M
Co-investors: Jules Walker (Brella), Michael Mealling (Starbridge Venture Capital), Mathieu Guerville (FNMA), 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), Gabe Dominocielo (Domino 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 LabsPresent

Managing Principal Office of US Senator Daniel Patrick MoynihanPresent

Managing Principal BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

Managing Principal Calling BrandsPresent

Managing Principal University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Second Lieutenant/First Lieutenant Marine Corps RecruitingPresent

Development Analyst USAAPresent

Captain Marine Corps RecruitingPresent

Senior Investment Associate TrueBridge Capital PartnersPresent

Managing Principal Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent

Venture Partner Foundation CapitalPresent

General Partner Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent

Managing Principal NewCoPresent

Managing Principal Top-PatentsPresent

Second Lieutenant/First Lieutenant marine corpsPresent

Captain marine corpsPresent

Second Lieutenant/First Lieutenant United States Marine CorpsPresent

Development Analyst USAA Real Estate CompanyPresent

Captain United States Marine CorpsPresent

Managing Principal Champion Hill LabsPresent

General Partner Champion Hill VenturesPresent

Josh Manchester's Education

Duke University BA Comparative Area Studies

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