Emily Man

Hey there—I’m Emily! I’m currently at Primary Ventures leading investments in the next generation of transformational businesses. I mostly spend my time across fintech and b2b software.

In previous lives I’ve worn many different investing hats. Most recently, I was investing at Redpoint Ventures, a Bay Area fund that has backed the likes of Snowflake, Stripe, Twilio, and Ramp.

I started my career as a public markets investor at a hedge fund, Point72, before making the jump to the private markets to help build out their venture arm, P72 Ventures.

I love going deep learning about unsexy industries and finding the determined founders who are looking to shake up the (broken) status quo. I think best through writing and so have compiled some of my thoughts here.

Personally, I'm a global citizen having grown up across Indiana, Shanghai, and Beijing. Then I did the NYC → SF → NYC boomerang. Outside of work I love food (discovering new restaurants and cooking), fitness classes (currently partial to boxing and pilates), and am always looking for a new scifi series.

A couple other places to find me:

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My Writing


Optimizing for Success in Your Next Growth Round

11/29/2022

Predictably Unpredictable (Part II): Is Fintech Really Dead?

8/4/2022

How the Durbin Amendment sparked fintech innovation

7/13/2022

Predictably Unpredictable: Navigating the Volatility of Transactional Revenue

6/7/2022

Embedded Fintech: Who should consider an embedded finance offering and how to get from decision to launch (Part III)

3/8/2022

Looking Back at the Fintech IPOs of 2021

12/15/2021

Embedded Fintech: Which financial services should be embedded? (Part II)

11/16/2021

Embedded Fintech: What is it? (Part I)

10/4/2021

Vertical Fintech is Reimagining Community Banking with the Help of Next-Gen Infrastructure

9/9/2021

The Future of Fraud Detection: Tech’s Role in Securing Digital Financial Services

5/17/2021

Features


Start Here: Getting Real About Your Business Model With VC Emily Man

05/04/2023

Hey Fintech Friends ft Emily Man

04/27/2023

Payments Innovation: The Path to Frictionless Global Payments

03/21/2023

Meet the 71 rising-star VCs who shook up the industry in 2022

01/02/2023

NextGen Rising Stars 2022

12/16/2022

Global Venture Funding Dips Further In November 2022

12/12/2022

Fintech Nexus Live

09/22/2022

Fintech Insider Podcast, Episode 658: Prometeo launches LatAm A2A payments and Ramp rolls into BNPL

8/29/2022

Unstoppable Women of Fintech - Emily Man

3/25/2022

Bitcoin vs. gold: Which is the better inflation hedge?

3/16/2022

57 up-and-coming fintechs building the behind-the-scenes tech powering Wall Street, according to top investors

7/21/2021