Primary Venture Partners is looking for an Operator-In-Residence (OIR) to join its Incubation program with a focus on Supply Chain. Primary is an early-stage venture capital firm with close to $1B AUM, investing in pre-seed and seed-stage startups based in New York City. The firm’s Incubation arm launched in 2019 to support the ideation, research and launch of new startups. Primary’s first three incubated companies will return its first fund many times over, and Primary is now primed for substantial growth in its Incubation efforts in 2023.
OIRs at Primary engage in generating and vetting new ideas in targeted industry verticals, conducting extensive diligence on those ideas, and preparing a business case for pre-seed investment from the firm. OIRs also have the opportunity to double down with a specific business into the launch phase as a member of the founding team, recruiting key executives and getting the business up and running from 0 to 1, or returning to the Incubation program to do it all over again. To learn more about the OIR opportunity, watch
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The ideal OIR candidate is a versatile strategist, startup enthusiast, and exceptional, hands-on doer who has experience as an engineer or data scientist but has also gotten business experience in finance, consulting, or startups. You should have technical skills and a desire to deeply understand business models, the startup landscape, and emerging trends across Supply Chain. You should excel when analyzing markets, conducting customer discovery interviews, researching competitors, building financial models, and translating findings into compelling presentations and narratives on markets and business opportunities. Most of all, you are passionate about entrepreneurship, the startup and VC landscape, and building networks. If you are in an MBA program, we are open to a part-time arrangement until you graduate, at which point you would begin full-time.
