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Primordial Ventures
Venture capital · Durham, NC, United States · North America
Primordial Ventures is a venture firm founded in 2023 by Joe Colopy and Jenn Summe that invests in early-stage software startups in North Carolina. It writes small initial checks, reserves roughly 70% of its fund for follow-ons, and supports founders through check-ins, mentorship, and a founder community.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordssoftwareearly-stagenorth-carolinapre-seedseedcapital-efficient
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Or find every investor that fitsPrimordial Ventures lists 17 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (26%), Healthcare & Biotech (15%) and Enterprise Software (15%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside NC Tweener Fund, Charlotte Fund and 100KM VC.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Primordial Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Primordial Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 17. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 42th | 16 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 68th | 6% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 38th | 26% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 26% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 15% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 15% | 8% |
| Fintech | 7% | 12% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 4% | 6% |
| Consumer | 4% | 3% |
| Food & Agriculture | 4% | 3% |
| Media & Entertainment | 4% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| NC Tweener Fund | 10 |
| Charlotte Fund | 3 |
| 100KM VC | 2 |
| Knoll Ventures | 2 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 1 |
| Atlanta Seed Company | 1 |
| Connetic Ventures | 1 |
| Everywhere Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers17100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Primordial Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Primordial Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 18 Nov 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Primordial Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Primordial Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
17 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Capwave connects every deal, meeting, relationship and decision across a venture capital firm, then surfaces what matters and handles the rest. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| CivicReach builds people-friendly technology that helps nonprofits and governments serve more people, prove impact, and follow through so that folks get the help they need. | Healthcare & BiotechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Coworks provides space management software for coworking spaces and other communities | Real Estate & ConstructionEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Eboxchain unifies logistics, partners, and analytics in one platform for patient care | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Fashivly provides personal styling services with curated shoppable looks for users | E-commerce & MarketplacesConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| FirmPro builds cloud-native replacements for the desktop tools accounting firms have run for twenty years. | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Scale Social AI turns everyday customer experiences into a steady stream of brand-ready content, captured anywhere, AI-moderated, rights-cleared and optimized for performance. | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Nov 2025Seed | Portfolio page | |
| Abra provides AI-powered relationship intelligence for procurement | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Keebler Health processes patient records and provides risk insights to clinicians using AI-driven clinical analysis | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Roboro monitors legislation in real time and provides predictive insights and alerts to help clients stay informed and take action | AI & Machine LearningLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| SetSale provides an AI-powered platform for HVAC sales | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Socialcascade provides a patient communications platform for healthcare providers | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Syllaby creates faceless videos and AI avatars from any idea | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Trinitite develops a product called Emu that controls and regulates the actions of AI apps and agents on behalf of users. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides revenue intelligence for technical sales | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Virnika provides AI phone agents for restaurants to answer calls and take orders | AI & Machine LearningFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- primordial.io
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 18 Nov 2025
- Companies checked
- 17
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