Cassie Young—Primary Venture Partners

05/09/23 • 52 min

Cassie Young is a General Partner at Primary Venture Partners. In addition to leading software investments at Primary, Cassie also manages the firm's portfolio impact program, Primary Impact. In this episode of The Deal, Cassie shares her thoughts on what has driven explosive tech ecosystem growth in NYC over the past decade, the power of Primary Impact for her fund's seed stage founders, Primary’s own incubation program, and how she's personally navigated her career as an operator-investor in New York.

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Follow Cassie on Twitter @dukecass and LinkedIn.

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Dan Long—Cohen Circle

Dan Long is a Partner at Cohen Circle, an investment firm that capitalizes fintech companies from their Series A rounds to exits. But before Dan was an investor, he was an operator himself. On this episode of The Deal, Dan shares how his experience building PeerIQ (which was acquired by CrossRiver Bank) influences his investment frameworks at Cohen Circle today, the nuance of innovating in a heavily regulated industry, how building a VC firm is quite similar to launching a startup, and transformational shifts he expects to emerge in fintech in the decade to come.

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Melody Koh—NextView Ventures

Melody Koh is a Partner at NextView Ventures, a high conviction, hands-on seed stage investor that backs founders building technology companies to redesign the everyday economy. Before joining NextView, Melody was Head of Product at Blue Apron. She'd joined as Blue Apron's first product hire and then scaled the business through hyper-growth (25x in 3.5 years) and IPO. In this episode of The Deal, Melody shares what led her back to venture after her time at Blue Apron, launching her own startup while pursuing an MBA at Harvard Business School, how she evaluates prospective investments at NextView, and how founders can stand out in a sea of deal flow.

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