Investing Profile

Josh Manchester(802)

VC
I founded and manage Champion Hill, a pre-seed/seed firm. We also make 1-2 later stage SPV investments/year.
linkedin.com/in/josh-manchest...Raleigh, North Carolina
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Current Investing Position
Champion Hill Labs General Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $10.0M
Sweet Spot
$250K
Investments On Record
11

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Josh Manchester's Investments On Record (10)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Keeper
Pre SeedOct 2024$4M
$19M
Co-investors: Jake Jolis (Matrix), Mathias Schilling (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Ilya Volodarsky (Convective Capital), Nic Carter (Castle Island Ventures), John Neamonitis (Lakehouse Ventures), Aly Madhavji (Blockchain Founders Fund), Hari Raghavan (Autopilot Fund), John Durant (Wild Ventures), Francis Pedraza, Jeff Seibert, Brandon Goldman, Alexandre Scialom, Jonathan Swanson
Swarm Aero
Pre SeedMay 2022
Co-investors: Jackson Moses (Afore Capital), Jai Malik (Countdown Capital), Leo Polovets (Humba Ventures)
Anduril Industries
Pre-SeedApr 2022
$9.2B
Co-investors: Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Trae Stephens (Founders Fund), Katherine Boyle (Andreessen Horowitz), Joe Lonsdale (8VC), David Ulevitch (Andreessen Horowitz), Paul Kwan (General Catalyst), Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Jackson Moses (Afore Capital), Brian Rabben (Rabben Hood Ventures), Mislav Tolusic (Marlinspike), Sebastian Bausch (11k Ventures), Greg Castle (Anorak Ventures), Lachy Groom (LGF), Michael Chase (Outliers Fund), Stu Shea (01 Advisors), Ana Levine (E1 Ventures), William Miller, Mircea Pasoi, Mattia Astori, Stephen Romanoff, Thomas Tull, Fanny Surjana, Richard Cooperstein
Skiff
SeedMay 2021$4M
$15M
Co-investors: Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Beth Turner (SV Angel), John Lilly (Greylock), Ali Partovi (Neo), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), Eugene Marinelli (Conversion Capital), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Guy Podjarny, John Hennessy, Ameet Patel, Julia Hartz, Charlie Songhurst, Balaji Srinivasan
Radiant
AngelSep 2020$1M
$520M
Co-investors: David Ulevitch (Andreessen Horowitz), Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures), Laura Rippy (Alumni Ventures ), Colin Anderson (Friends & Family Capital), Hank Vigil (Acequia Capital), Mike Annunziata (Also Capital), Justin Mateen, Kevin Lin, Charlie Songhurst
Field Complete
Pre SeedAug 2020$2M
$4M
Co-investors: Jon Oringer (Pareto Holdings), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Kevin Weatherman (KW Angel Fund), Sam Huleatt (IntangibleVC), Charlie Songhurst, Jeremy Yap, John Carleton, George Burke
Umbra Labs
SeedNov 2019$1M
$1M
Co-investors: Michael Mealling (Starbridge Venture Capital), Mathieu Guerville, Jules Walker, Kurt Bilafer
Umbra
SeedApr 2019$10M
Pre SeedMar 2018$2M
$87M
Co-investors: Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Luigi Bajetti (LombardStreet Ventures), Brian Garrett (Crosscut Ventures), Andrew Romans (7BC Venture Capital), Stephen Hays (What If 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.