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Brian Schechter
Thesis
AI demand is growing exponentionally and colliding with today's semiconductor capabilities. Outsider founders, not incumbents, taking first-principles big-swing approaches will build the compute infrastructure needed for superintelligence.
About
Brian is a two-time founder and former teacher turned investor. He backs founders with outlier intelligence, irresistable conviction, and the je ne sais quoi of a magician doing the impossible. Brian has partnered with teams tackling some of the hardest problems in infrastructure. In 2023, he led the Seed and joined the board of Etched, an AI unicorn building full-rack inference systems. In 2024, he led the Seed for Atero, founded by ex-NVIDIA and OpenAI engineers building GPU cluster memory orchestration software.
Investments
Accelerating bioprocessing with predictive simulation software for optimized manufacturing in pharma
Yossi Quint
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.
Yossi Quint
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Maximizing GPU performance for AI workloads
Alon Yariv
Omer Landau
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.
Alon Yariv
Omer Landau
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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.
Misha Herscu
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A compute stack powering the fastest inference in the world
Gavin Uberti
Chris Zhu
Robert Wachen
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.
Gavin Uberti
Chris Zhu
Robert Wachen
Hardware-agnostic software to run commercially viable quantum application
Richard Givhan
Mykola Maksymenko
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.
Richard Givhan
Mykola Maksymenko
The #1 AI conference for business leaders
Jonathan Weiner
Stefan Weitz
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.
Jonathan Weiner
Stefan Weitz
Next generation attack surface management
Itamar Lavender
Naor Edri
Next generation attack surface management
Automated, continuous penetration testing that captures the full context of an application, from inside and out, identifying vulnerabilities before attackers do.
Itamar Lavender
Naor Edri
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Control plane for platform teams managing Kubernetes at scale
Sam Weaver
Michael Guarino
Control plane for platform teams managing Kubernetes at scale
Enterprise kubernetes fleet management for the most complex, sophisticated kubernetes environments
Sam Weaver
Michael Guarino
Edge case resolution for robotics in the real world
Michael Kohen
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.
Michael Kohen
The AI-native revenue platform for modern finance
Ali Hussain
Deepak Bapat
Rebecca Schwartz
The AI-native revenue platform for modern finance
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.
Ali Hussain
Deepak Bapat
Rebecca Schwartz
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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.
Elizabeth Nammour
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Biological, neuron-powered compute for optimizing AI models
Alex Ksendzovsky
Jon Pomeraniec
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.
Alex Ksendzovsky
Jon Pomeraniec
Founder Testimonial
When stakes are high, Brian doubles down. His low ego and operator experience make him a great sounding board. He balances technical complexities with business realities and does the work—selling hires or flying cross-country for deals.
Associate
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Gaby Lorenzi
Gaby is focused on infrastructure, spanning hardware and software across compute, data, developer tools, and AI. She studied math and computer science at UCLA, worked in data science at startups, and co-founded Bruin Ventures, partnering with LA venture firms on research and strategy. Before Primary, she was a Data Scientist at T. Rowe Price building recommendation systems.
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