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Primary Venture Partners

Founders Benjamin Sun Brad Svrluga

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Total investments 180
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 100
Rounds per year 20.00
Lead investments 23
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.44
Exits 24
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Financial Services
  • Health Care
  • SaaS
Summary

Primary Venture Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2004. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the New York.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. This Primary Venture Partners works on 10 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The typical startup value when the investment from Primary Venture Partners is 50-100 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The current fund was established by Benjamin Sun. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Primary Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Techstars, Contour Venture Partners, Village Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lerer Hippeau, Village Ventures, NYC Seed. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Lerer Hippeau, Contour Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Enterprise Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Jet.com, Bench, Apprenda Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Bedrock Ocean Exploration

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$25M12 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

Etched.ai

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Marker Learning

$15M09 Feb 2023 New York, New York, United States

Small Door

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Zenlytic

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$5M14 Nov 2022 New York, New York, United States

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$6M01 Nov 2022 New York, New York, United States

Naya Homes

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Mobot

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$12M15 Aug 2022 New York, New York, United States

Pattern

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$25M12 Jul 2022 New York, New York, United States
News
Alma Pulls In $50M Series C Round

– Alma, a membership-based network for mental health care providers to build and scale their practices, has announced $50m in Series C funding.
– The round is led by global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners with participation from Optum Ventures, Tusk Venture Partners, Primary Venture Partners, Sound Ventures, BoxGroup and Rainfall Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to fuel Alma’s national expansion and support therapists across the country to offer affordable, in-network care.

Realm Lands $12M Seres A Funding Round

– Realm, a first-of-its-kind unbiased, centralized and actionable source of information for American homeowners, has raised $12M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by GGV Capital with participation from existing investors Primary Venture Partners, Lerer Hippeau and Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures.
– This round comes just four months after the company’s market launch and brings the total raised to $15M.

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Total investments 180
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 20.00
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 23
Follow on index 0.44
Exits 24
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bedrock Ocean Exploration

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Marine Technology
Robotics
Software
$25M12 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

Etched.ai

Computer
Hardware
$5M16 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Marker Learning

$15M09 Feb 2023 New York, New York, United States

Small Door

Health Care
Medical
Pet
Veterinary
$40M14 Dec 2022 New York, New York, United States

Zenlytic

Analytics
E-Commerce
Software
$5M14 Nov 2022 New York, New York, United States

Retirable

Financial Services
Retirement
$6M01 Nov 2022 New York, New York, United States

Naya Homes

Hospitality
Real Estate
Software
$5M14 Sep 2022 -

Mobot

B2B
Developer Tools
Mobile Apps
Quality Assurance
Robotics
Software
$12M15 Aug 2022 New York, New York, United States

Pattern

Consumer Goods
Lifestyle
Retail
$25M12 Jul 2022 New York, New York, United States
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