Duncan Young

Lorimer Ventures is a Brooklyn-based venture fund made up of founders, operators, and investors who have experience building enterprise SaaS companies from pre-revenue to post-IPO. We bring a founder-first perspective to each company we back and leverage our collective experience and network to help early stage founders scale their businesses, products, and fundraising. At our core we strive to be a trusted partner and offer founders the guidance and advisory to help scale their concepts from seed to exit.

Primary is the worlds largest early stage VC firm, with a billion in assets under management and 50 full time employees. Primary’s Impact team outnumbers investors 2:1, and is filled with seasoned executives working alongside founders to supercharge growth and secure quality hires, early customers, and downstream investors. This team embeds with companies for 2,500 hours of high-intensity fractional leadership work, conducts 3,000 candidate interviews, maintains a pool of 5,000+ active job seekers, and hosts 250 events large and small for the NYC tech community each year. Cofounders Brad Svrluga and Ben Sun have won recognition from Forbes Midas List and Insiders Seed 100.

Lorimer Ventures is a Brooklyn-based venture fund made up of founders, operators, and investors who have experience building enterprise SaaS companies from pre-revenue to post-IPO. We bring a founder-first perspective to each company we back and leverage our collective experience and network to help early stage founders scale their businesses, products, and fundraising. At our core we strive to be a trusted partner and offer founders the guidance and advisory to help scale their concepts from seed to exit.

Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, program and community for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 as Acceleprise, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible and successful for early-stage founders, through funding, high touch programming, corporate perks and introductions, and an active SaaS community. Forum For Founders, our pre-seed program, provides founders with $100k in funding and 15 intense weeks of talks, events, mentorship and 1:1 guidance focused on go to market and fundraising. Forum Seed, our seed fund, backs exceptional SaaS startups at the seed-stage both from within and outside of our pre-seed program. With over 400 portfolio companies, Forum founders have gone on to raise ~$1B in follow-on funding from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncork Capital, 8VC, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, Canaan, Bowery Capital, Susa Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, SV Angel, True Ventures and many more. Learn more at www.forumvc.com Looking for more founder-focused advice? Subscribe to The Midnight Text -- a bi-weekly newsletter that provides honest answers to the unspoken questions that keep founders awake at (mid)night. https://midnighttext.substack.com/