When skeptics call vertical-specific seed investing a silly idea, they miss the big picture. Sand Hill Road is saturated with large multi-stage firms writing big checks at the seed stage. Every hot startup has one question for VCs today: “What do you bring to the table?” And hey, different venture firms have different strengths. Some are happy to connect you with industry experts; others pull out their checkbook… Primary is trying to be an anomaly here. We believe content and PR can be a real deal magnet if leveraged right. In this conversation with Sam Toole, Partner at Primary, he reveals how VCs can stand out to exceptional founders as mega funds rush in. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/dfhQNJ-4 cc: Jason Shuman Sam Toole
Primary Venture Partners
Investment Management
New York, New York 35,644 followers
Top founders start here. Alloy, Alma, Chief, Electric, K Health, Vestwell, & more. Forbes Midas List; Insider Seed 100.
About us
Primary is New York’s leading early stage firm, with a billion in assets under management and 50 full time employees. The team commits unreasonable resources to create unfair advantages for the world’s top founders. Primary’s Impact team outnumbers investors 2:1, and is filled with seasoned executives working alongside founders to supercharge growth and secure quality hires, early customers, and downstream investors. This team embeds with companies for 2,500 hours of high-intensity fractional leadership work, conducts 3,000 candidate interviews, maintains a pool of 5,000+ active job seekers, and hosts 250 events large and small for the NYC tech community each year. Cofounders Brad Svrluga and Ben Sun have won recognition from Forbes' Midas List and Insider's Seed 100.
- Website
-
http://www.primary.vc
External link for Primary Venture Partners
- Industry
- Investment Management
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, New York
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 2015
- Specialties
- Venture Capital, Startups, Entrepreneurship, and Technology
Locations
-
Primary
386 Park Ave S
14th Floor
New York, New York 10016, US
Employees at Primary Venture Partners
Updates
-
Primary Venture Partners reposted this
🪸 🍎 Another engaging Reef.ai Executive Dinner in NYC this week! Mahalo to John Gleeson from Success Venture Partners and Cassie Young from Primary Venture Partners for partnering to make this event impactful and fun. Stellar turnout for a summer night in the city. It was a blast to hang out with Madelyn DePrey, Mikayla LaRosa, Sam Slevin, Liane Pierce, Sarah Parker, Spencer B., Will Crocker Hay, Ajay Chidrawar, Douglas Hanna, Julia Loureiro Bendix, Tom Ronen, Jillian Burnett, Eyal Maor, Jules Schwerin, Chad Horenfeldt, Carly Skinder Lieberman, Nick Tippmann, Kyle Wade, Mahesh Motiramani, Jeremy Silver, Santosh Sahoo, and Michael Edelstein. Thanks all for the shared learnings and perspectives on the challenges and opportunities customer leaders are tackling today. Lafayette Bakery and Cafe delivered a perfect setting and delicious food. If you’re a GTM leader interested in attending the next event in our Executive Dinner Series, please drop a comment below or send me a message. #machinelearning #customerscoring #retention #growth
-
Primary Venture Partners reposted this
Today is Thursday so it's time for another Primary Venture Partners' Product role of the week! Today's featured role is a Product Manager at Alloy. Alloy is a platform that provides identity verification and compliance solutions for financial institutions, enabling them to automate onboarding and mitigate fraud. As a Product Manager at Alloy, you will dive deep into client data to uncover valuable insights and work closely with our Client Success team to help clients leverage these findings effectively. If you'd like to learn more, check out the job description: https://lnkd.in/dVb3iamU If this opportunity isn't the right fit, even if you're just passively thinking about a new role, please fill out our confidential talent tracker so that we can keep you top of mind for relevant opportunities: https://lnkd.in/egiH9prE
-
Primary Venture Partners reposted this
It's Thursday, and I am spotlighting another open GTM role across Primary Venture Partners' portfolio. As always, if you or anyone in your network is interested, please reach out! Up this week is Primary's Market Development role! As the Market Development Associate, you will work alongside an incredible team led by Jason Gelman and partner directly with startup founders to secure meetings with target buyer personas, representing Primary and portfolio companies to senior executives. This role involves experimenting with prospecting tactics, nurturing leads, conducting discovery calls, and supporting initial customer acquisition and product validation. If you'd like to learn more, check out the job description here: https://lnkd.in/g4CrKu2D Primary is an early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to delivering exceptional support to the founders of transformational businesses. By pairing meaningful investment resources with the largest portfolio impact team of any seed investor, our portfolio companies— including Chief, Vestwell, Alloy, and Latch, to name a few—have reached an industry-best seed-to-A graduation rate. If this opportunity isn't the right fit, even if you're just passively thinking about a new role, please fill out our confidential talent tracker so that we can keep you top of mind for relevant opportunities across the portfolio: https://lnkd.in/efVdkqQD If you're not looking for work but are interested in connecting with other professionals to learn and network. Encourage you to check out and join our Mastermind Network: https://lnkd.in/eEJzVGHy
Primary Venture Partners Job Board
jobs.primary.vc
-
Primary Venture Partners reposted this
#AMA on #payments with Stephany Kirkpatrick, CFP® — let's go! Hope to see you there. 👋
We're looking forward to the next breakfast in NYC with Stephany Kirkpatrick, CFP® from Orum.io!
This content isn’t available here
Access this content and more in the LinkedIn app
-
Don’t Fall into the Trap of More Meetings = More Deal Flow Chasing every founder can feel empty and is often a waste of time. It was a chance encounter that led Sam Toole, Partner at Primary, to his best investment yet: Dandelion Health. Sam believes in investing time to understand founder vision and startup potential. He knows this approach is more time-consuming but ultimately more rewarding. With two kids and a packed schedule, Sam can’t attend every pitch event or conference. In this conversation with Primary GP Jason Shuman, he stresses why networking doesn’t always attract the best deal flow. Watch the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/dfhQNJ-4 cc: Jason Shuman Sam Toole
-
One cold email can land you a job in VC. “We should work together…” That was Jason Shuman’s cold email to Sam Toole, Partner at Primary. While still in college pursuing a BA in English Literature, Sam started two businesses—a surf school and a clothing brand. He followed that up with Nomad Health, a healthcare labor marketplace. At Primary, Sam invests with a focus on healthcare and spearheads our Healthcare Advisory Board. In this conversation with Jason, he discusses why deal sourcing as a VC is simpler than you think, how creating content helps you resonate with seed founders, and why being a polymath trying to invest in it all is just not an option. cc: Jason Shuman Sam Toole
-
Primary Venture Partners reposted this
Today is Thursday so it's time for another Primary Venture Partners' Product role of the week! Today's featured role is a Product Manager at Alloy. Alloy is a platform that provides identity verification and compliance solutions for financial institutions, enabling them to automate onboarding and mitigate fraud. As a Product Manager at Alloy, you will dive deep into client data to uncover valuable insights and work closely with our Client Success team to help clients leverage these findings effectively. If you'd like to learn more, check out the job description: https://lnkd.in/dVb3iamU If this opportunity isn't the right fit, even if you're just passively thinking about a new role, please fill out our confidential talent tracker so that we can keep you top of mind for relevant opportunities: https://lnkd.in/egiH9prE
Primary Talent Tracker
https://typeform.com
-
Primary Venture Partners reposted this
Time for Primary's Engineering role of the week!! Up this week we have a Staff DevOps Engineer at K Health K Health is a venture-backed, fast-growing startup with a mission to use the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to get everyone access to higher-quality healthcare at more affordable costs. The role is located in New York. ... if this opportunity isn't a fit, it's worth noting that we have hundreds of other open roles across the Primary Venture Partners portfolio right now. If you're even passively thinking about a new opportunity, please fill out our confidential talent tracker so that we can keep you top of mind for relevant opportunities: https://lnkd.in/e7jp-n_D
Staff DevOps Engineer
job-boards.greenhouse.io
-
Primary Venture Partners reposted this
Another Thursday means another new Primary Venture Partners GTM role!! 🚨 This week’s featured role is our very own Market Development role!! 🚨 Primary Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to delivering exceptional support to the founders of transformational businesses. By pairing meaningful investment resources with the largest portfolio impact team of any seed investor, our portfolio companies— including Chief, Vestwell, Dandy, and Alloy, to name a few—have reached an industry-best seed-to-A graduation rate. As the Market Development Associate, you will work directly with startup founders to secure meetings with target buyer personas, representing Primary Venture Partners and portfolio companies to senior executives. This role involves experimenting with prospecting tactics, nurturing leads, conducting discovery calls, and supporting initial customer acquisition and product validation. If you'd like to learn more, check out the job description here: https://lnkd.in/gRnA6Caf If this opportunity isn't the right fit, even if you're just passively thinking about a new role, please fill out our confidential talent tracker so that we can keep you top of mind for relevant opportunities across the portfolio: https://lnkd.in/efVdkqQD If you're not looking for work but are interested in connecting with other professionals to learn and network, I encourage you to check out and join our Mastermind Network: https://lnkd.in/eEJzVGHy Happy job searching!!
Primary Venture Partners Job Board
jobs.primary.vc