Investing Profile

Walter Kortschak(122)

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Managing Partner at Kortschak Investments
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Connected to Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), David Samuel (Freestyle Capital), Jenny Lefcourt (Freestyle Capital), and 5 other investors on Signal.

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Kortschak Investments Managing Partner
$5.0M - $50.0M
$20.0M
118
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Swoop
SeedApr 2026$7M
$19M
Co-investors: Jonathan Root (U.S. Venture Partners (USVP)), Kevin Weil (OpenAI), Elizabeth Weil (Scribble Ventures), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Ed Cluss (Signia Venture Partners), Chris Zock (Sandbox Industries), Manik Gupta
Soma Energy
Pre SeedApr 2026
$7M
Co-investors: Tripp Jones (Uncork Capital), Villi Iltchev (Two Sigma Ventures)
InkVell
Pre SeedDec 2025$1M
$1M
Co-investors: Charlie Songhurst
Giggles
Pre SeedOct 2025$1M
$1M
Overmind
SeedSep 2025$6M
SeedSep 2022
$9M
Co-investors: Adam Cragg (Osney Capital), Dan Scheinman (Scheinman Angel Fund)
Inversion
SeedSep 2025$27M
$81M
Co-investors: Santo Politi (Spark Capital), Casey Caruso (Paradigm), Nabeel Hyatt (Spark Capital), Chris Moran (Lockheed Martin Ventures), Serge Kassardjian (6MV), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Eric Del Balso (Kohala Ventures), Jenna Bryant (Embedded Ventures), Jordan Noone (Embedded Ventures), Aniq Kassam (Stealth Capital), Kyle Vogt (Cruise Automation, Inc.), Balaji Srinivasan, Andrew Steinwold
Sauna by Wordware
SeedNov 2024$30M
$31M
Co-investors: Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Beth Turner (SV Angel), Brian Jacobs (Emergence Capital), Nabeel Hyatt (Spark Capital), Topher Conway (SV Angel), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Masha Bucher (Day One Ventures), Siqi Chen (Invesco Private Capital), Donald Stalter (Sunshine Lake), Tod Sacerdoti (Flex Capital, LLC // Turbo Ventures, LLC), Kulveer Taggar (Angel investor), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund), Mathilde Collin, Azeem Azhar, Thijn Lamers, Paul Stahura
Twenty
SeedNov 2024$5M
$5M
Co-investors: Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Jonathan Golden (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Dalton Caldwell (Standard Capital), Denis Lafont-Trevisan (OpenCapital.vc), Yuri Sagalov (10100), Konstantin Vinogradov (Runa Capital), Jean Charles Samuelian, Sergei Anikin, Dharmesh Shah, Mathilde Collin
Executive Chairman SignalFire2013 - Present
Producer/Principal End Cue2013 - Present
Managing Partner Kortschak Investments2010 - Present
Founder, USC Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity University of Southern California2009 - Present
Partner Firestreak VenturesPresent
Founder Firestreak VenturesPresent
Former Managing Partner Summit PartnersPresent
Co-Founder/ Principal End CuePresent
Co-Founder End CuePresent
Partner Kortschak InvestmentsPresent
Founder Kortschak InvestmentsPresent
Managing Partner Summit PartnersPresent
General Partner Summit PartnersPresent
Board Member Dual (Previously BLOCKv)Present
Pre-Seed & Founding Investor Finnrick AnalyticsPresent
Board Member & Seed Investor ReziPresent
Senior Advisor Summit PartnersPresent
Chairman Emeritus/Founding Investor SignalFirePresent
Board Member & Seed Investor Vital InteractionPresent
Board Member & Seed Investor TorpagoPresent
Board Member & Seed Investor Toku (prev. WorkDAO)Present
Board Member & Seed Investor TokuPresent
Board Member & Investor PlaycoPresent
Board Member BubblePresent
Board Member EllipticPresent
Executive Chairman & CIO SignalFirePresent
Early Investor Palantir TechnologiesPresent
Early Investor LyftPresent
Founding Investor & Advisor SignalFirePresent
Vice President/Associate Crosspoint Venture Partners1985 - 1989
Principal Software Engineer MSC Software1982 - 1985
UCLA Anderson School of Management M.B.A. Finance
California Institute of Technology M.S. Engineering
Oregon State University B.S. Engineering
Caltech M.S. Engineering