New York Venture Partners

New York Venture Partners

New York Venture Partners operates as a family office run by founders. Founding Partner Brian Cohen launched the firm after a four-decade technology entrepreneurship career, including founding strategic communications firm Technology Solutions, Inc. in 1983. He runs the firm alongside his sons Maxwell and Trace, both managing directors. The Cohens invest their own capital, calling themselves 'a Family Office run by founders.' The firm concentrates exclusively on pre-seed and seed-stage startups. Its model pairs equity checks with an ecosystem of mentorship and strategic marketing consulting, a carryover from Brian Cohen's communications background. New York Venture Partners has completed over 60 direct investments and requires portfolio companies to be US-based Delaware C-corps. Trace Cohen sources and diligences deals, drawing on his experience founding three startups including Launch.it and Brandyourself.com, which was acquired. The Cohen family's structure is lean and relationship-driven. Brian Cohen also chairs the New York Angels, one of the country's longest-running angel groups, giving the family a proprietary top-of-funnel view into early-stage New York deal flow. Maxwell Cohen runs Peel Away Labs, an operating business that manufactures disposable bed sheets for hospitals and hotels, creating a parallel operator lens inside the family's investment activity. The firm's structural differentiator is its fusion of an active angel network chairmanship with a family-run direct investment vehicle. Brian Cohen sits at the center of New York's angel ecosystem while deploying family capital through the same pre/seed strategy. This gives the Cohens a dual perspective that pure family offices or standalone angel groups rarely hold.