Most seed investors sell access and advice. Primary has spent a decade building something more concrete: a scaled operating bench that helps young companies recruit, find customers and raise the next round.
Oceans built its pitch around a scarce commodity in venture capital: useful attention after the wire lands. Its partners sell founders on operator time, candid advice and help with the hires and customers that decide whether an early-stage company gets a second act.
Delphi treats a mushroom farm, a digital clinic and a psychedelic drug developer as pieces of the same puzzle: how to finance a healthier relationship between people and the planet.
The Brooklyn-rooted firm writes early checks for enterprise-AI founders, then puts a network of more than 100 working operators on the cap table. Its wager is that access to buyers, builders and follow-on capital can be packaged into something more useful than advice.
The New York accelerator writes an early check, compresses a company’s hardest conversations into 10 weeks, then keeps founders inside a private network built to outlast Demo Day.
The New York venture firm treats rockets as plumbing and satellite data as raw material. Its real wager is that GPS, geospatial intelligence and satellite communications will become the quiet infrastructure beneath everyday business.