Jason Shuman

Partner at Primary

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2025
VC🌍 United States
12
Total investments
8
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0
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12y
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Feb 2025
AI powered peer review for better design documents and fewer RFIs and change orders. LightTable helps developers, architects, and contractors catch errors early for accurate pricing and faster builds
Board Member
Dec 2023
Construction is one of the largest industries in the world, but it is also one of the least technologically innovative spaces. Conducting fast and accurate cost estimates is a massive pain point. Bobyard automates the construction takeoff process with CV and NLP models to make cost estimates 10x faster while eliminating mistakes.
Board Member
Jun 2023
At Ply, we empower trades professionals, including plumbers, electricians, and HVAC businesses, with state-of-the-art inventory management and materials procurement software. Were passionate about making business operations smoother and more efficient for those in the trades. On top of founding and selling a successful agency providing skilled trades businesses online marketing and advertising services, the Ply founders have decades of product and design experience working at companies such as Stash, PathAI, HubSpot, Amazon, as well as ventures of their own.
Board Member
Jan 2022
Naya Homes is a vacation rental management platform that leverages data-fueled revenue management, sophisticated technology and expert hospitality operations to maximize yields for homeowners and real estate investors.
early stageHospitality
Board Member
Aug 2021
Studies show that only one in twenty students with a learning disability ever get a diagnosis, increasing their chances of experiencing low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and unemployment later in life. Marker Learning is here to change that. We partner with schools to provide gold-standard learning disability evaluations, ensuring every student has the opportunity to thrive. Developed by leading experts from Johns Hopkins and endorsed by the Learning Disability Association and the International Dyslexia Association, our cutting-edge technology creates a seamless, faster assessment process without compromising quality. Together, we’re innovating the future of education, one assessment at a time.
Board Member
Apr 2021
Fuse is the AI-native Loan Origination System and Account Opening platform for Credit Unions, Banks, Auto & Powersports Lenders, and Finance Companies. Founded in 2020, Fuse powers 100+ financial institutions with one platform that runs the full lending and account opening flow, anchored by Proactive Automation, a continuous program that identifies and ships the next highest-impact automation opportunity for each institution, and contractual guarantees that put outcomes on the line, not in the sales deck. Backed by $25M+ from the investors behind Chime and OpenAI. Headquartered in New York.
Board Observer
Oct 2020
Flock seamlessly converts your individual rental property into fully passive, diversified shares in a pool of houses.
early stageReal Estate
Board Member
Sep 2020
Realm is building a single destination for homeowners. We help homeowners decide what to do with their home, and then help them do those things seamlessly with a marketplace of vendors. Founded in New York City in December of 2019, Realm is backed by top investors including: GGV Capital, Atreides Management, Primary Venture Partners, Lerer Hippeau and Liberty Mutual. Weve powered over >100m of renovations and helped thousands of homeowners make smarter home decisions.
early stageReal Estate
Lead Seed Investor
Apr 2019
Dandy was created with one goal in mind: to modernize the dental lab process. We’re the first solution of its kind. Our platform is designed to level up practices by making the entire process effortlessly digital — from start to finish. *All recruiting emails will come from email addresses ending in @meetdandy.com
Seed Investor
2017
Standard Bots is redefining the field of robotics with its AI-powered robots which are designed and assembled in the U.S. Unlike traditional robots, which require complex programming, Standard Bots innovative technology allows users to program robots through simple demonstration, making automation accessible to everyone. This approach facilitates the collection of high-quality training data, empowering our AI models to provide real-time control of robots that adapt to changing conditions. With the goal of enabling businesses of all sizes to deploy robots quickly and easily, Standard Bots builds products for a wide range of industrial and commercial use cases. For more information, visit standardbots.com
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2025
Board Member
Feb 2025
AI powered peer review for better design documents and fewer RFIs and change orders. LightTable helps developers, architects, and contractors catch errors early for accurate pricing and faster builds
2023
Board Member
Dec 2023
Construction is one of the largest industries in the world, but it is also one of the least technologically innovative spaces. Conducting fast and accurate cost estimates is a massive pain point. Bobyard automates the construction takeoff process with CV and NLP models to make cost estimates 10x faster while eliminating mistakes.
Board Member
Jun 2023
At Ply, we empower trades professionals, including plumbers, electricians, and HVAC businesses, with state-of-the-art inventory management and materials procurement software. Were passionate about making business operations smoother and more efficient for those in the trades. On top of founding and selling a successful agency providing skilled trades businesses online marketing and advertising services, the Ply founders have decades of product and design experience working at companies such as Stash, PathAI, HubSpot, Amazon, as well as ventures of their own.
2022
Board Member
Jan 2022
Naya Homes is a vacation rental management platform that leverages data-fueled revenue management, sophisticated technology and expert hospitality operations to maximize yields for homeowners and real estate investors.
early stageHospitality
2021
Board Member
Aug 2021
Studies show that only one in twenty students with a learning disability ever get a diagnosis, increasing their chances of experiencing low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and unemployment later in life. Marker Learning is here to change that. We partner with schools to provide gold-standard learning disability evaluations, ensuring every student has the opportunity to thrive. Developed by leading experts from Johns Hopkins and endorsed by the Learning Disability Association and the International Dyslexia Association, our cutting-edge technology creates a seamless, faster assessment process without compromising quality. Together, we’re innovating the future of education, one assessment at a time.
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