Investing Profile

Josh Manchester(829)

VC
General Partner at Champion Hill Ventures
linkedin.com/in/josh-manchest...Raleigh, North Carolina
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45 Investors

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

Networks Josh is a member of
NewCo Network
1585 CONNECTIONS
Top-Patents Network
1031 CONNECTIONS
University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory Network
842 CONNECTIONS
Center for Rural Health Leadership Network
434 CONNECTIONS
Center for Rural Health Leadership Network
434 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Champion Hill Ventures General Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $10.0M
Sweet Spot
$250K
Investments On Record
11

Josh Manchester is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Josh Manchester's Investments On Record (10)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Keeper
Pre SeedOct 2024$4M
$19M
Co-investors: Jack Altman (Benchmark), Mathias Schilling (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), John Durant (Wild Ventures), Jude Gomila (Golden (Recursion Inc)), Brandon Goldman, Francis Pedraza, Alexandre Scialom
Swarm Aero
Pre SeedMay 2022$2M
$37M
Co-investors: Dayna Grayson (Construct Capital), Leo Polovets (Humba Ventures), Colin Beirne (Two Sigma Ventures)
Anduril Industries
Pre-SeedApr 2022
$9.3B
Co-investors: Katherine Boyle (Andreessen Horowitz), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Will Kohler (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Trae Stephens (Founders Fund), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Aatish Patel (Other Ventures), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Ross Fubini (XYZ Venture Capital), Mislav Tolusic (Marlinspike), Geoff Lewis (Bedrock Capital), Brian Singerman (The Founders Fund), 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), Brian Rabben (Rabben Hood Ventures), Sebastian Bausch (11k Ventures), Mircea Pasoi (Stealth Capital), Aly Walji (Sparq Capital (SFO)), Mattia Astori, Fanny Surjana, William Miller, Richard Cooperstein
Skiff
SeedMay 2021$4M
$15M
Co-investors: John Lilly (Greylock), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), David Petersen, Balaji Srinivasan, Charlie Songhurst, Julia Hartz
Field Complete
Pre SeedOct 2020$2M
$4M
Co-investors: Edward Lando (Biowear), Sam Huleatt (NextGen Venture Partners), Kevin Weatherman (KW Angel Fund), Jeremy Yap (Causal), Charlie Songhurst, David Petersen
Radiant
AngelSep 2020$1M
$520M
Co-investors: Tim Draper (Draper Associates), Tom McInerney (TGM), Fred Wilson (Flatiron Partners), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Adam Draper (Boost VC), Scott Nolan (The Founders Fund), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Mike Annunziata (Also Capital), Charlie Songhurst
Umbra Labs
SeedNov 2019$1M
$1M
Co-investors: Jules Walker (Ravix Group), Michael Mealling (Starbridge Venture Capital), Kurt Bilafer, Mathieu Guerville
Umbra
SeedApr 2019$10M
Pre SeedMar 2018$2M
$12M
Co-investors: Brian Garrett (Crosscut Ventures)

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
Managing Principal Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent
Senior Investment Associate TrueBridge Capital PartnersPresent
Captain Marine Corps RecruitingPresent
Development Analyst USAAPresent
Second Lieutenant/First Lieutenant Marine Corps RecruitingPresent
Managing Principal University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Josh Manchester's Education

Duke University BA Comparative Area Studies