Venture Capital
ManchesterStory
ManchesterStory backs early-stage and high-growth companies, typically pre-profit, from Des Moines, USA. It states a focus on financial services, healthcare & life sciences and software & internet.
Stated investment criteria
What ManchesterStory says it buys
Read from ManchesterStory’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.
| Offices | West Des Moines1 |
Source
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Regulatory record
How ManchesterStory is registered
From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.
| Adviser status | Exempt reporting adviser |
| Regulatory assets under management | Not reported by an ERA |
| Private funds advised | 7 · $387m gross |
| SEC adviser number | CRD 298873 |
An exempt reporting adviser is not required to report regulatory assets under management, so the blank above means the question was not asked rather than that the answer is unknown. Where a figure exists it is the gross asset value of the private funds the firm advises, which is a different and usually larger measure.
Portfolio
Disclosed holdings
Companies ManchesterStory lists on its own website. No investment years are published. 1 has a recorded transaction against it in the deal archive.
| Company | Invested | Years held | Recorded transaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anagram | — | — | — |
| Better Agency | — | — | — |
| Betterview | — | — | — |
| CNote | — | — | — |
| COVU | — | — | — |
| Carver Edison | — | — | — |
| Ciba Health | — | — | — |
| CircleEngage | — | — | — |
| Cowbell | — | — | — |
| FLORA | — | — | — |
| Finmkt | — | — | — |
| FloatMe | — | — | — |
| Fringe | — | — | — |
| Journey | — | — | — |
| Kinetic | — | — | $26m 2022 |
| LimitFi | — | — | — |
| Matic | — | — | — |
| Myhealthbridge | — | — | — |
| OpenLoop Health | — | — | — |
| Penguin AI | — | — | — |
| Plnar | — | — | — |
| Powerbroker AI | — | — | — |
| Rainwalk Pet Insurance | — | — | — |
| Rollick | — | — | — |
| Salvo Health | — | — | — |
| SmartX Advisory | — | — | — |
| StitchStudio | — | — | — |
| Trussed AI | — | — | — |
| Verikai | — | — | — |
| When | — | — | — |
| Wisedocs | — | — | — |
| WriteWise | — | — | — |
| XCaliber Health | — | — | — |
| XP Health | — | — | — |
| getagency.com | — | — | — |
| gooseinsurance.com | — | — | — |
| helloplum.com | — | — | — |
| reThought Insurance | — | — | — |
| trailblazertech.com | — | — | — |
Compiled from ManchesterStory’s published portfolio page. Where a recorded transaction is shown, that company was the target of a reported deal and has most likely already been realised. Nothing here is represented as being for sale.
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