Primitive Ventures
Primitive Ventures is a Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in Other, AI / ML, Developer Tools. The firm typically writes $1.0M–$5.0M checks and has 25 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $1.0M–$5.0M
- Portfolio
- 25 companies on record
- Partners
- 2 listed
- Stage
- Seed
- Sectors
- Other, AI / ML, Developer Tools
- HQ
- San Francisco, CA
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-08-27
Seed
$1.0M – $5.0M
25+ companies
2 partners
Investment Thesis
Primitive Ventures is focused on backing the most promising blockchain and crypto-related startups worldwide.
How Primitive Ventures invests
Primitive Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, CA. The firm invests at the Seed stage, with a focus on Other, AI / ML, Developer Tools.
Primitive Ventures typically writes checks of $1.0M–$5.0M per investment.
Primitive Ventures has backed 25 companies in our records, including Dharma Labs, Cosmos, Optimism.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (25)
Other
Dharma Labs
Cosmos
Optimism
Monad
Starkware
A developer of zero-knowledge proof-based scaling solutions (STARKs) to improve Ethereum's scalability and privacy.
Berachain
Particle Network
Blast
Messari
A provider of crypto market intelligence, research, and data analytics tools for digital assets.
Nansen
- •Raising at Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, AI / ML, Developer Tools — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $1.0M – $5.0M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Dovey Wan, Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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