Brian Schechter

Partner, Infrastructure

Thesis

AI is creating exponential demand that incremental optimizations won’t satisfy. The breakthroughs are coming from outsiders. After two decades, seed is the place to be for compute again.

About

Brian is a two-time founder turned investor. He focuses on helping exceptional early teams scale into enduring companies. Brian has partnered with founders tackling some of the most complex. Brian is a two-time founder turned investor. He focuses on helping exceptional early teams scale into enduring companies. Brian has partnered with founders tackling some of the most complex.

Brian is a two-time founder turned investor. He focuses on helping exceptional early teams scale into enduring companies. Brian has partnered with founders tackling some of the most complex. Brian is a two-time founder turned investor. He focuses on helping exceptional early teams scale into enduring companies. Brian has partnered with founders tackling some of the most complex.

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Hardware-agnostic software to run commercially viable quantum application

Founders

Richard Givhan
Mykola Maksymenko

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Invested
01/2025
Stage
Seed

Hardware-agnostic software to run commercially viable quantum application

Haiqu accelerates quantum commercialization, bridging enterprise use cases with quantum hardware. Co-founders Richard and Mykola partner with HSBC and others on real applications.

Founded
2022
HQ
New York, NY
Investor
Brian Schechter
Invested
01/2025
Founders

Richard Givhan
Mykola Maksymenko

Stage
Seed
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Infrastructure

Biological, neuron-powered compute for optimizing AI models

Founders

Alexander Ksendzovsky
Jonathan Pomeraniec

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Invested
01/2025
Stage
Series A

Biological, neuron-powered compute for optimizing AI models

Started by neurosurgeons, The Biological Computing Company uses the world's most powerful computer - the brain - to deliver more accurate and cost-effective AI models.

Founded
2025
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Investor
Brian Schechter
Invested
01/2025
Founders

Alexander Ksendzovsky
Jonathan Pomeraniec

Stage
Series A
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Infrastructure

The #1 AI conference for business leaders

Founders

Jonathan Weiner
Stefan Weitz

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Invested
01/2023
Stage
Seed

The #1 AI conference for business leaders

From the people behind Money20/20, HLTH, and Shoptalk, the next must-attend AI gathering with C-level speakers from Snowflake, AWS, Google, Salesforce, and more.

Founded
2023
HQ
New York, NY
Investor
Brian Schechter
Invested
01/2023
Founders

Jonathan Weiner
Stefan Weitz

Stage
Seed
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Infrastructure

Maximizing GPU performance for AI workloads

Founders

Alon Yariv
Omer Landau

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Invested
01/2024
Stage
Acquired

Maximizing GPU performance for AI workloads

Aquired by Crusoe. Atero boosts GPU efficiency for AI through its novel unified memory approach. Now part of Crusoe, it powers scalable, energy-efficient infrastructure for next-gen AI.

Founded
2024
HQ
Tel Aviv, Israel
Investor
Brian Schechter
Invested
01/2024
Founders

Alon Yariv
Omer Landau

Stage
Acquired
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Infrastructure

A compute stack powering the fastest inference in the world

Founders

Gavin Uberti
Chris Zhu
Robert Wachen

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Invested
01/2023
Stage
Series B

A compute stack powering the fastest inference in the world

Etched is tackling one of the largest markets in history - AI inference. Their first chip, Sohu, deliver low latency, high-throughput inference for transformers.

Founded
2022
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Investor
Brian Schechter
Invested
01/2023
Founders

Gavin Uberti
Chris Zhu
Robert Wachen

Stage
Series B
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Infrastructure

Edge case resolution for robotics in the real world

Founders

Michael Kohen

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Invested
01/2020
Stage
Acquired

Edge case resolution for robotics in the real world

Acquired by John Deere. AI's potential is slowed by edge cases computers can't solve. SparkAI brings humans in to help, empowering companies to launch & scale revolutionary products faster.

Founded
2021
HQ
New York, NY
Investor
Brian Schechter
Invested
01/2020
Founders

Michael Kohen

Stage
Acquired
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Infrastructure

Control plane for platform teams managing Kubernetes at scale

Founders

Sam Weaver
Michael Guarino

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Invested
01/2020
Stage
Seed

Control plane for platform teams managing Kubernetes at scale

Enterprise kubernetes fleet management for the most complex, sophisticated kubernetes environments

Founded
2020
HQ
New York, NY
Investor
Brian Schechter
Invested
01/2020
Founders

Sam Weaver
Michael Guarino

Stage
Seed
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Infrastructure

Accelerating bioprocessing with predictive simulation software for optimized manufacturing in pharma

Founders

Yossi Quint

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Invested
01/2021
Stage
Series B

Accelerating bioprocessing with predictive simulation software for optimized manufacturing in pharma

Experiments drive science, but physical ones are costly and slow. Ark built the world's highest fidelity virtual bioreactor so scientists can experiment in silico.

Founded
2021
HQ
Boston, MA
Investor
Brian Schechter
Invested
01/2021
Founders

Yossi Quint

Stage
Series B
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Infrastructure

AI-native revenue suite for the office of the CFO

Founders

Ali Hussain
Deepak Bapat
Rebecca Schwartz

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Invested
01/2023
Stage
Series B

AI-native revenue suite for the office of the CFO

Trillions of dollars are stuck in overdue invoices. Tabs allows companies to collect funds faster by putting the entire end-to-end AR process on autopilot.

Founded
2023
HQ
New York, NY
Investor
Brian Schechter
Invested
01/2023
Founders

Ali Hussain
Deepak Bapat
Rebecca Schwartz

Stage
Series B
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Fintech & Enterprise AI

The fastest path to production AI

Founders

Misha Herscu

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Invested
01/2021
Stage
Seed

The fastest path to production AI

Cutting-edge AI is accessible for the 1%, but hard to use for the 99%. Cake bundles open source AI to help customers reach production faster at lower cost.

Founded
2021
HQ
New York, NY
Investor
Brian Schechter
Invested
01/2021
Founders

Misha Herscu

Stage
Seed
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Infrastructure

Automated data protection, at scale

Founders

Elizabeth Nammour

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Invested
04/2022
Stage
Series A

Automated data protection, at scale

Teleskope automates data security and privacy across your entire data footprint. Their platform arms security teams, once drowning in complexity, with powerful tools that manage risk and remediate issues at the source.

Founded
2022
HQ
New York, NY
Investor
Brian Schechter
Invested
04/2022
Founders

Elizabeth Nammour

Stage
Series A
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Cybersecurity

Founder Testimonial

“When the stakes are high, Brian doubles down. His low ego and experience as an operator make him a great sounding board, and he is one of the first people I turn to for advice. His ability to balance technical complexities with business realities sets him apart. And he's always ready to do the work: whether it's selling a world-class hire or flying across the country to do a deal, Brian's involvement has been crucial for Etched.”

Gavin Uberti
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