# PrimeSet

> PrimeSet is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Brazil
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/theprimeset
- Website: https://www.primeset.com/

PrimeSet is a group of engineers and tech leaders that helps startup founders with experience and networking. They also help in all technical and operational aspects including informal technical advice about stacks and architectures, hiring for senior roles, and access to a large network of star engineers.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.5M–$15M |
| Series A | $6M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 33% |
| Web Development | 4 | 27% |
| Internet | 3 | 20% |
| Recruiting | 3 | 20% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 67% |
| Series A | 3 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 60% |
| Italy | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Babak Hamadani | Founder | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/babak-hamadani |
| Jan Chong | Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-chong |
| Ty Smith | Limited Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ty-smith |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Moonbounce | Moonbounce is an AI control engine that ensures AI‑driven systems behave exactly as designed, at any scale, by enforcing real‑time behavioral policies and continuously monitoring outputs for safety, compliance, and brand‑risk alignment. | $12M | Seed | Apr 04, 2026 |  |
| Deductive | Deductive AI is an applied AI research lab that develops AGI to make software systems self-healing. | $7.5M | Seed | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| Pixee | Pixeebot fixes vulnerabilities, hardens code, squashes bugs, and gives engineers more time to focus on the work that counts by conveniently delivering solutions as a pull request. | $15M | Seed | May 22, 2025 |  |
| ChainOpera AI | ChainOpera AI the blockchain and protocol for collaboratively developing and owning decentralized AI applications and humanity's agents. | $3.5M | Seed | Dec 26, 2024 |  |
| cside | c/side is a cybersecurity company that provides monitoring solutions, optimizing, and safeguarding vulnerable browser-side third-party scripts. | $6M | Seed | Sep 16, 2024 |  |
| Tezi | Tezi is building an Autonomous AI trained by top hiring managers and recruiters to lead the end-to-end hiring process. It proactively sources, screens applications, schedules interviews, collects scorecards, and never drops the ball. | $9M | Seed | Jul 31, 2024 |  |
| Yupp | Yupp a discovering, contrasting, and utilizing the newest AIs is made simple and enjoyable, which also contributes to the field's future development.. | $33M | Seed | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Arena | Arena’s Audience Engagement Platform allows you to create native, social media-like experiences on any digital property to drive community-led growth. Transform your existing content streams into new experiences that drive engagement & registration, all powered by First Party Data. Monetize directly, programmatically, or both. Through an AItechnology, Arena.im is capable to aggregate, curate and distribute content in scale to any device, anytime, anywhere. They enable a seamless live experience for sports, news, finance, tech and any other real-time events.We’ve helped publishers & brands brands like Fox Sports, Rogers Media, Sony, Microsoft and Greenpeace transform existing media & content streams into experiences that boost First Party Registration Rates by 7x, resulting in improvements like 4.3x Average Session Time and 2.4x Conversion Rate. | $14M | Series A | Mar 30, 2022 |  |
| Emi Labs | At Emi we are on a mission to increase Frontline Workers’ access to professional opportunities. This is a population that accounts for +70% of the world’s workforce. They are digitally invisible, as there’s little to no data available on who they are, their career history, or their skill set, limiting their access to professional opportunities andgrowth. We're here to transform this by building the infrastructure to make Frontline Workers visible.Our first step to achieving our mission is to transform the recruiting experience into an easy, human and fair process, for both candidates and companies with high-volume job openings. Emi, our main product, is an A.I. recruitment assistant that enables companies to engage in a conversation with each applicant to detect interested and qualified individuals while saving Recruiters a huge amount of time by automating tasks such as screening, validating skills, scheduling interviews, and collecting documents.We operate with a remote-first culture with office hubs in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and San Francisco. | $11M | Series A | Feb 24, 2022 |  |
| Metaview | Metaview is re-engineering hiring with AI at the core. Founded in 2018 by Siadhal Magos and Shahriar Tajbakhsh, former product and engineering leaders at Uber and Palantir, Metaview helps recruiting teams harness AI across every stage of the hiring process, from intake to final offer.They started Metaview to help leaders and operators excel atthe most high-leverage activity in any organization: building great teams. By turning interviews into rich, actionable data, Metaview transforms interviewers into a company’s most valuable asset in the war for talent.Thousands of companies use Metaview to streamline workflows, uncover deeper insights, and make smarter, faster decisions. Backed by top-tier investors and loved by high-performing teams, Metaview is redefining how modern hiring happens. | $6M | Seed | Dec 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Arrive](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arrive-361a) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [CRV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crvvc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [#Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Designer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/designer-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Scribble Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scribble-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tiny Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiny-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does PrimeSet invest in?

PrimeSet invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Web Development startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is PrimeSet's check size?

PrimeSet typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$15M at Seed and $6M–$14M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds PrimeSet participates in.

### How do I contact PrimeSet?

Public channels for PrimeSet include X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at PrimeSet?

The team at PrimeSet includes Babak Hamadani (Founder), Jan Chong (Member) and Ty Smith (Limited Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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