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Primary Ventures

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Primary Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in New York, NY investing in SaaS, Other, Fintech. The firm typically writes $500K–$2.0M checks and has 10 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$500K–$2.0M
Portfolio
10 companies on record
Partners
18 listed
AUM
$1.7B
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
SaaS, Other, Fintech, Enterprise
HQ
New York, NY

Last verified: 2026-05-23

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$500K – $2.0M

AUM

$1.6B

Portfolio

10+ companies

Team

18 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Focused on enterprise software, automation technologies, and finance SaaS solutions for European and US markets.

How Primary Ventures invests

Primary Ventures is a vc firm based in New York, NY. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on SaaS, Other, Fintech, Enterprise. It does not invest in Consumer.

Primary Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$2.0M per investment, backed by approximately $1.7B in assets under management.

Primary Ventures has backed 10 companies in our records, including Nayya, Hone, The Biological Computing Company.

Partners & Team

BS

Brian Schechter

Partner

Agents
AI infrastructure
Edge computing
LL

Lisa Lewin

Partner

EB

Emma Balin

Vice President

JS

Jamie Sterrett

Vice President of Talent

BF

Bridget Flaherty

Director of Operations

MW

Mike W

Chief Financial Officer

RP

Rebecca Price

Partner

Impact investing
Talent & human capital
Diversity
EM

Emily Man

Partner

Investment strategy
Sector specialism
Portfolio guidance
ST

Sam Toole

Partner

Healthcare
Clinical AI
Healthtech incubation
CY

Cassie Young

General Partner

GTM technology
Operating experience
Go-to-market strategy
TS

Tom Seo

Venture Partner

Portfolio support
Sector specialization
Deal sourcing
MW

Mike Witkowski

Chief Financial Officer & Partner

Finance
Fund operations
Legal & compliance oversight
ZF

Zach Fredericks

Principal

Sector specialization
Company diligence
Seed / early stage
OW

Owen Willis

Venture Partner

Specialized domain expertise
Deal flow
Venture partnerships
BS

Brad Svrluga

Co-founder & General Partner

Enterprise applications
Seed stage
Healthcare foundation
BS

Ben Sun

General Partner

B2B SaaS
Enterprise Operations
JG

Jason Gelman

Operating Partner, Go-to-Market

Go-to-market operations
Sales & Marketing scaling
Operational scaling
JS

Jason Shuman

General Partner

Seed investments
Deal sourcing
Early stage startups

Industry Focus

Invests In

SaaS
Other
Fintech
Enterprise

Does Not Invest In

Consumer

Portfolio Companies (10)

Other

NA

Nayya

B2B SaaS
HO

Hone

Enterprise Automation
TH

The Biological Computing Company

ET

Etched

TA

Tabs

IN

Inspiren

1M

1mind

MA

Maybern

LY

Lyric

LI

LightTable

How to pitch Primary Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in SaaS, Other, Fintech — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $500K – $2.0M check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Brian Schechter, Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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