Manresa Ventures

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Updated: Dec 24, 2025 ·

About

Manresa Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm focused on fintech, payments, e-commerce software and adjacent technologies.

Financial History

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Sep 1, 2024	DubClub	$8.0M Series A	—	Kevin Hartz, Lakestar, Renegade Partners, Sarah Smith Fund, Emily Chiu, Julia Hartz, Louis Beryl, Omri Dahan, William Hockey
Mar 1, 2024	The New Club	$3.0M Seed	—	186 Ventures, 20VC, Accomplice VC, Afore Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Antiportfolio Ventures, Arrive, Baseline Ventures, Better Capital, Boston Seed Capital, C2 Investment, Caffeinated Capital, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Crossbeam Venture Partners, GSV Acceleration, Heretic Ventures, Impellent Ventures, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, NextGen Venture Partners, NextView Ventures, Operator Collective, Overlooked Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Predictive VC, Right Side Capital Management, SciFi VC, Seven Seven Six, Stone Mountain Ventures, The Hit Forge, Village Global, VitalStage Ventures, Weekend Fund, WorkLife Ventures, Y Combinator, Anthony Pompliano, Baron Davis, David Chang, Evan Moore, Fidji Simo, Jeff Seibert, Jennifer Lum, Jeremy Yap, John Collison, Kevin Lin, Kunal Shah, Mike Krieger, Scott Belsky, Steve Chen
Jan 1, 2024	Axle	$2.0M Seed	—	Clocktower Technology Ventures, Precursor Ventures
Oct 1, 2023	QuoteMachine	$4.0M Seed	—	Alkeon Capital, BrandProject, Canaan Partners, Caravela Capital, Clocktower Technology Ventures, EVE Atlas, FJ Labs, foobar.vc, Mathias Schilling, MATH Venture Partners, Northside Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Quona Capital, Rainfall Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, Staircase Ventures, Susa Ventures, The Finger Group, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Brian Sugar, Christian Bach, Heini Zachariassen, Jacob Kerzner, Parker Treacy
Aug 1, 2023	Rightfoot	$15.0M Series A	—	Kevin Hartz, Coinbase Ventures, Greylock, Jett Fein, Lakestar, Redpoint Ventures, Renegade Partners, Sarah Smith Fund, XYZ Venture Capital, Akshay Kothari, Brandon Leonardo, Emily Chiu, Julia Hartz, Louis Beryl, Max Mullen, Omri Dahan, William Hockey
Jan 1, 2022	Creditas	$260.0M Series F	—	Amadeus Capital Partners, Chile Ventures, Headline (formerly e.ventures), Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors, Rainfall Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, Wollef Ventures, Brian Sugar
Oct 1, 2021	Windsor.io	$3.0M Seed	—	10100, Kevin Hartz, Acrew Capital, Afore Capital, Altair Capital Management, Angel investor, AngelList, Anti fund, Arena Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, Brainchild, Brewer Lane Ventures, Canaan Partners, CoinFund, Craft Ventures, Exponent Founders Capital, Founders Fund, Heavybit, Infinite Niches, Jazz Venture Partners, KAAN Ventures, Lakestar, LAUNCH, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Liquid 2 Ventures, Mischief Venture Capital, Not Boring Capital, Paradigm, Positive Sum VC, Precursor Ventures, Proton Enterprises, Renegade Partners, Sarah Smith Fund, Shrug Capital, The Hit Forge, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Trust Fund, Underscore VC, Vibe Capital, Alex Rodriguez, Y Combinator, Anthony Pompliano, Babak Nivi, David Rosenberg, Deborah Liu, Dylan Field, Emily Chiu, Garrett Koehn, Julia Hartz, Justin Mateen, Karim Atiyeh, Kevin Hart, Kyle Vogt, Marcy Simon, Matthew Dellavedova, Moshe Lifschitz, Omri Dahan, Sahil Lavingia, Sahin Boydas, Scott Belsky, Steve Chen, William Hockey
Jun 1, 2021	Specto	$3.0M Seed	—	Kevin Hartz, Antler, Arrive, Bam Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Electric Capital, Fuel Capital, Immeasurable, Lakestar, LAUNCH, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ludlow Ventures, REMUS Capital, Renegade Partners, Sarah Smith Fund, Sequoia Capital, Shrug Capital, Sound Ventures, Susa Ventures, Emily Chiu, Griffin Johnson, Haroon Mokhtarzada, Joe Greenstein, Julia Hartz, Leah Busque, Louis Beryl, Matt Coffin, Moshe Lifschitz, Omri Dahan, Scott Belsky, Sean Flynn, William Hockey
Mar 1, 2021	TryNow	$12.0M Series A	—	10100, Kevin Hartz, AngelPad, Arena Ventures, BITKRAFT Ventures, BoxGroup, Craft Ventures, ENIAC Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Lakestar, Mischief Venture Capital, Notion Capital, Pro Founders Capital, Renegade Partners, Sarah Smith Fund, Shine Capital, Slow Ventures, The Finger Group, Weekend Fund, Y Combinator, Ben Lin, David Rosenberg, Dylan Field, Eben Pagan, Emily Chiu, Julia Hartz, Justin Mateen, Louis Beryl, Omri Dahan, Scott Belsky, Siqi Chen, Steve Chen, William Hockey
Feb 1, 2021	Brightwheel	$55.0M Series C	—	9Yards Capital, Abstract Ventures, Kevin Hartz, A* Capital (A Star Capital), Accomplice VC, Addition, AirAngels, Airtree Ventures, Alt Capital, Alumni Ventures, Amplify.LA, Audacious Ventures, Avenir, Avid Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Banana Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Blackbird Ventures Australia, Boldstart Ventures, Bond, BoxGroup, Brand New Matter, Casa Verde Capital, Craft Ventures, Cupule Ventures, Earl Grey Capital, ENIAC Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Fifth Wall, Founders Fund, Gigafund, Kamran Ansari, Jude Gomila Rolling Fund, Kairos HQ, Kearny Jackson, Kipaki Ventures, Lakestar, LAUNCH, Level2 Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, LvlUp Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Mischief Venture Capital, Notable Capital, Offline Ventures, Osney Capital, Pioneer Fund, Polychain Capital, Primary Venture Partners, Quake Capital, Renegade Partners, RRE Ventures, Sarah Smith Fund, Sequoia Capital, Stripe, Thomson Reuters Ventures, TSVC Capital, WGI Group, Work-Bench, XSeed Capital, Y Combinator, YLEM, Aston Motes, Dan Wright, David Petersen, Emily Chiu, Eric Ries, Frederic Kerrest, Gordon Wintrob, Greg Kidd, Jeremy Cai, Jon Runyan, Kamiar Kordari, Louis Beryl, Mathilde Collin, Max Mullen, Namrata Ganatra, Nitay Joffe, Noah Goodhart, Omri Dahan, Paul Rios, Philippe Teixeira da Mota, Ryan Carlson, Ryan Chan, Scott Belsky, Siqi Chen, Tony Xu, Troy Carter, Tyler Willis, William Hapworth, William Hockey, Zack Kanter
Feb 1, 2021	Rightfoot	$5.0M Seed	—	9Yards Capital, A* Capital (A Star Capital), Accel, Addition, Adverb Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Atomico, Bain Capital Ventures, Basis Set Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Canvas Ventures, Company Capital, DCM, ENIAC Ventures, Euclid Ventures, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Exponent Founders Capital, Forum Ventures, General Catalyst, Golden Ventures, Greylock, Joe Kraus, Haymaker Ventures, Infinite Niches, Inspired Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lowercarbon Capital, Nokia Growth Partners, Hans Tung, Jeff Richards, Nyca Partners, Primitive Ventures, Sarah Smith Fund, Silverton Partners, Streamlined Ventures, Tealium, UpHonest Capital, Vera Equity, Akshay Bhargava, Avid Larizadeh, Ben Porterfield, Ding Zhou, Ed Baker, Gabriel Jarrosson, Jason Tolkin, Jon Runyan, Josh Mohrer, Julia Hartz, Marcy Simon, Mark Cuban, Matt Mazzeo, Mike Kourey, Rashaun Williams, Ryan Carlson, Tom Williams, Vibhu Mittal
Feb 1, 2021	Powder	$14.0M Series A	—	A* Capital (A Star Capital), Alven, Banana Capital, EQT Ventures, Felix Capital, Female Founders Fund, Lakestar, Partech Ventures, Renegade Partners, Sarah Smith Fund, #SecretFund, Sweet Capital, Emily Chiu, Julia Hartz, Louis Beryl, Omri Dahan, William Hockey
Dec 1, 2020	Creditas	$260.0M Series E	—	Amadeus Capital Partners, Chile Ventures, Endeavor Catalyst, Mathias Schilling, Headline (formerly e.ventures), Kaszek Ventures, Mouro Capital, QED Investors, Quona Capital, Rainfall Ventures, Redpoint eventures, Red Sea Ventures, Upload Ventures, Brian Sugar
May 1, 2020	Clyde	$14.0M Series A	—	Acrew Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Craft Ventures, Curie.Bio, Curious Capital, FJ Labs, Mathias Schilling, Night Ventures, Operator Partners, Rainfall Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, REMUS Capital, Serena Ventures, Seven Seven Six, Sound Ventures, Timespan Ventures, Version One Ventures, Abe Burns, Baron Davis, Brian Sugar, Casey Neistat, Gokul Rajaram, Ian Borthwick, Logan Paul, Pir Granoff
May 1, 2020	Caraway	$5.0M Seed	—	7wire Ventures, ACME Capital, Array Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Bowery Capital, Brainchild, Coelius Capital, Distributed Ventures, ENIAC Ventures, Ensemble VC, Goodwater Capital, Frederique Dame, Mathias Schilling, Ingeborg Investments, KRM Interests LLC, Ligature, Lux Capital, Math Capital, Maveron, McCarthy Capital, Oceans, OMERS Ventures, QueensBridge Venture Partners, Rainfall Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, Red Swan Ventures, RRE Ventures, Social Capital, SuperAngel.Fund, The Food Loft, Tiffany, Town Hall Ventures, Tribe Capital, Tusk Venture Partners, XFactor Ventures, Anthony Saleh, Baron Davis, Brian Sugar, Demi Lovato, Elliott Cohen, Evan Cheng, Henry Davis, Jason Starr, Jon Stein, Kim Perell, Lev Ekster, Nik Sharma, Shervin Pishevar, Steve Schlafman
May 1, 2019	Blloc	$2.0M Seed	—	Ambridge Capital, Curie.Bio, FirstMark Capital, Gradient Ventures, Mathias Schilling, Operator Partners, Rainfall Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, Brian Sugar, Christian Reber, Lucas Cranach, Stephan Schambach, Vivek Garipalli, Alex Stephany, Errol Damelin, Flyer One Ventures, Geek Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Kima Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Yury Mazanik
Nov 1, 2018	Clyde	$3.0M Seed	—	Alumni Ventures, BITKRAFT Ventures, Mathias Schilling, Lightspeed Venture Partners, M12, NFX, Rainfall Ventures, Reach Capital, Red Sea Ventures, Brian Sugar
Aug 1, 2015	Creditas	$3.0M Series A	—	Headline (formerly e.ventures), Quona Capital, Rainfall Ventures, Redpoint eventures, Red Sea Ventures, Upload Ventures, Brian Sugar

Financial History

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Leadership Team

Key people at Manresa Ventures.

Jackson Gates

Managing Partner

Leadership Team

Key people at Manresa Ventures.

Jackson Gates

Managing Partner

Deep Dive

Manresa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, focused on investing in startups that design simple, impactful products primarily in fintech, payments, small business formation, e-commerce enablement, and data-related sectors such as privacy, identity, and fraud mitigation. Their mission centers on backing teams that solve important problems with straightforward solutions, supporting innovation in financial technology and commerce infrastructure. Since its founding in 2019, Manresa Ventures has built a portfolio of seven investments, including recent seed rounds, and has achieved at least one portfolio exit, demonstrating growing influence in the startup ecosystem by enabling early-stage companies to scale in complex, high-impact markets[1][2][3].

Founded in 2019, Manresa Ventures was established with a focus on early-stage investing in fintech and related sectors. The firm is led by Managing General Partner Jackson Gates and operates with a small, focused team of three employees. Over time, Manresa has evolved to emphasize investments that address critical challenges in payments, data security, and small business solutions, reflecting a strategic alignment with emerging trends in financial services and digital commerce. Their involvement as lead investors in seed rounds alongside other venture firms highlights their collaborative approach and growing footprint in the venture capital landscape[1][2][3].

Core Differentiators

Focused Investment Thesis: Concentrates on early-stage startups solving complex problems in fintech, payments, e-commerce enablement, and data privacy/security.
Lean Team with Deep Expertise: Small, specialized team led by Jackson Gates, enabling agile decision-making and personalized support.
Collaborative Syndication: Frequently co-invests with other reputable venture firms, enhancing deal flow and portfolio support.
Track Record: Demonstrated ability to identify promising startups with 7 investments and at least one successful exit.
Sector Expertise: Deep understanding of financial technology, identity verification, fraud prevention, and small business formation markets.

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Manresa Ventures is positioned at the intersection of several high-growth trends: the digitization of financial services, the rise of e-commerce platforms, and increasing demand for data privacy and fraud mitigation solutions. The timing is favorable as fintech innovation continues to disrupt traditional banking and payments, while small businesses seek digital tools to compete effectively. By focusing on early-stage companies in these sectors, Manresa helps accelerate the development of foundational technologies that underpin secure, efficient commerce and financial ecosystems. Their investments contribute to shaping a more accessible and trustworthy digital economy, influencing broader market dynamics and startup innovation patterns[1][2][3].

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, Manresa Ventures is likely to deepen its focus on fintech and commerce infrastructure startups, capitalizing on ongoing digital transformation and regulatory shifts that emphasize security and privacy. As financial technology continues to evolve with new payment methods, identity solutions, and data analytics, Manresa’s portfolio companies are well-positioned to lead innovation. The firm’s influence may grow as it expands its network and track record, potentially raising larger funds and increasing its role in shaping early-stage investment trends in fintech and e-commerce. Their continued success will depend on identifying breakthrough startups that simplify complex problems while scaling rapidly in competitive markets[1][2][3].

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Core Differentiators

Focused Investment Thesis: Concentrates on early-stage startups solving complex problems in fintech, payments, e-commerce enablement, and data privacy/security.
Lean Team with Deep Expertise: Small, specialized team led by Jackson Gates, enabling agile decision-making and personalized support.
Collaborative Syndication: Frequently co-invests with other reputable venture firms, enhancing deal flow and portfolio support.
Track Record: Demonstrated ability to identify promising startups with 7 investments and at least one successful exit.
Sector Expertise: Deep understanding of financial technology, identity verification, fraud prevention, and small business formation markets.