Adam Piasecki
Senior Associate, Vertical AI
Primary Venture Partners
Vertical AI investor focused on robotics, physical AI and defense-adjacent software.
Emily Man
Partner, Fintech & Enterprise AI·Primary Venture Partners
New York, New York, United States
Bio
Professional summary
Emily Man is Partner, Fintech & Enterprise AI at Primary Venture Partners. She brings experience investing across stages from Redpoint and Point72 Ventures and is focused on builders reimagining rigid financial and enterprise systems. Primary lists her portfolio involvement across fintech, enterprise AI, trade compliance, payment operations, and agentic infrastructure companies.
Investment focus
Stage, sector, and overall fit
Stage
Pre-SeedSeedSeries A
Sector
FintechEnterprise AIFinancial infrastructureAgentic payments and operations
Thesis
FintechEnterprise AIModern financial and enterprise systems
Notable companies
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
{
"name": "Alloy",
"relationship": "Investor",
"confidence": "high",
"source_basis": "official profile"
}{
"name": "Altis",
"relationship": "Investor",
"confidence": "high",
"source_basis": "official profile"
}{
"name": "Casap",
"relationship": "Investor",
"confidence": "high",
"source_basis": "official profile"
}{
"name": "Caspian",
"relationship": "Investor",
"confidence": "high",
"source_basis": "official profile"
}{
"name": "Circuit & Chisel",
"relationship": "Investor",
"confidence": "high",
"source_basis": "official profile"
}{
"name": "Redpoint",
"relationship": "Former investor",
"confidence": "high",
"source_basis": "official profile"
}{
"name": "Point72 Ventures",
"relationship": "Former investor",
"confidence": "high",
"source_basis": "official profile"
}
How to approach
Framing and angles for outreach
Pitch framing
Position the company as modern infrastructure for a legacy financial or enterprise workflow, with evidence that overlooked markets can become large software categories.
Personalization hooks
- 1Former Redpoint and Point72 Ventures investor
- 2Columbia summa cum laude graduate
- 3Interests include sci-fi, restaurants, and modern art
Recent signals
What the partner has said or done recently
Primary profile lists a 2025 pre-seed investment in Altis.
Primary profile lists a 2025 seed investment in Circuit & Chisel.
Primary profile lists a 2024 seed investment in Caspian.
Background
Career, education, and skills
Career history
- Primary Venture PartnersPartner, Fintech & Enterprise AI
Skills
Fintech investingEnterprise AISaaS analysisIncubationRequest for startups
Other partners at Primary Venture Partners
12 more profiles
Alex Giles
Market Development Associate
Primary Venture Partners
Market development associate on Primary's go-to-market team.
BS
Ben Sun
Partner, Co-CIO
Primary Venture Partners
Partner and Co-CIO at Primary, founder-turned-investor focused on consumer markets and AI-native products.
Benjamin Sun
Partner, Co-CIO
Primary Venture Partners
Founder-turned-VC backing consumer and NYC technology startups.
Brad Svrluga
Managing Partner, Co-CIO
Primary Venture Partners
Managing Partner and Co-CIO at Primary, focused on enterprise software, supply chain, industrial tech, and AI-enabled operational systems.
Brian Schechter
Partner, Infrastructure
Primary Venture Partners
Brian Schechter is Partner, Infrastructure at Primary Venture Partners. He is a two-time founder and former teacher who invests in ambitious infrastructure companies, especially around compute and AI systems.
Cassie Young
Partner, GTM Tech
Primary Venture Partners
Partner at Primary focused on GTM Tech, with 15 years of go-to-market operating experience and leadership of Primary's operating team.
Daria Arzy
Market Development Associate
Primary Venture Partners
Market development associate on Primary's go-to-market team.
Gabriella Monico
Senior Associate
Primary Venture Partners
Senior associate and investor at Primary Venture Partners.
Gaby Lorenzi
Associate, Infrastructure
Primary Venture Partners
Primary infrastructure investor focused on AI, compute, data, developer tools, and hardware.
Hannah McQuaid
Senior Associate, Healthcare
Primary Venture Partners
Healthcare investor at Primary with prior roles at Ansa, Pruven, and Guardian Life.
Jason Shuman
Partner, Vertical AI
Primary Venture Partners
Jason Shuman is Partner, Vertical AI at Primary Venture Partners. He backs founders building vertical AI and hardware-enabled networks that can turn industry-specific signals into autonomous systems.