About
Kostas joined Downing as a Partner in 2015. He works across the Investment team and is a member of the Downing Ventures Investment Committee. He has more than 13 years’ private equity experience as investor, board director, portfolio manager, adviser and business angel. Kostas worked as a corporate finance advisor at PwC, where he advised institutions and management teams on private equity deals and later joined the private equity team of Bank of Scotland in 2006. He was a member of the Caird Capital team that led a successful spin out of a £0.5 billion private equity portfolio from Lloyds Banking Group in 2010. Kostas has worked with management teams through operational improvement, growth, turnaround and successful exits. Kostas holds a degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Molecular Genetics and is a Chartered Accountant with ICAEW.
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 10 investors at Downing Ventures are tracked.
- • 2,531 investors hold the Partner and Head of Unquoted Investments role in VCSift. Kostas Manolis is one of them.
- • 8,972 investors are based in London, England, United Kingdom.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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- London, UK
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