Investing Profile

Walter Kortschak(119)

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Former Managing Partner, Senior Advisor, Managing Partner, General Partner at Summit Partners
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8 Investors

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

UCLA Anderson School of Management Network
45 CONNECTIONS
California Institute of Technology Network
17 CONNECTIONS
SignalFire Network
13 CONNECTIONS
University of Southern California Network
11 CONNECTIONS
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Summit Partners Managing Partner
$5.0M - $50.0M
$20.0M
114
$42B
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Overmind
SeedSep 2025$6M
SeedSep 2022
$6M
Co-investors: Dan Scheinman (Scheinman Angel Fund)
Inversion
SeedSep 2025$27M
$81M
Co-investors: Nabeel Hyatt (Spark Capital), Casey Caruso (Paradigm), Santo Politi (Spark Capital), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Serge Kassardjian (6th Man Ventures), Chris Moran (Lockheed Martin Ventures), Nico Wittenborn (Adjacent), Eric Del Balso (Kohala Ventures), Jenna Bryant (Embedded Ventures), Jordan Noone (Embedded Ventures), Aniq Kassam (FAST — by GETTYLAB), Kyle Vogt, Andrew Steinwold, Balaji Srinivasan
Wordware
SeedNov 2024$30M
$31M
Co-investors: Nabeel Hyatt (Spark Capital), Astasia Myers (Felicis Ventures), Beth Turner (SV Angel), Brian Jacobs (Emergence Capital), Topher Conway (SV Angel), Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Donald Stalter (Global Founders Capital), Tod Sacerdoti (Flex Capital), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund), Neil Shah (Greenoaks Capital), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), Ben Parr (Theory Forge Ventures), Matt Brown (Matrix), Masha Bucher (Day One Ventures), Paul Stahura, Siqi Chen, Mathilde Collin, Kulveer Taggar, Paul Graham, Ben Tossell, Azeem Azhar, Thijn Lamers
Twenty
SeedNov 2024$5M
$5M
Co-investors: Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Jonathan Golden (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Denis Lafont-Trevisan (OpenCapital.vc), Yuri Sagalov (10100), Konstantin Vinogradov (Runa Capital), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), Mathilde Collin, Jean Charles Samuelian, Sergei Anikin, Dharmesh Shah
Twenty (YC S23)
SeedNov 2024$5M
$5M
Co-investors: Jonathan Golden (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Yuri Sagalov (10100), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), Dharmesh Shah, Sergei Anikin, Jean Charles Samuelian, Mathilde Collin
Keep
Pre SeedOct 2024$3M
$660M
Co-investors: Jenny Lee (Granite Asia), Haojun Li (Granite Asia), Marc Bhargava (General Catalyst), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Nathan Doctor (Infinite Capital), Warrick Shanly (Soma Capital), Konstantin Vinogradov (Runa Capital), Andrew Miklas (S28 Capital), Elwin Yuan (5Y Capital), Ravi Grover, Arash Ferdowsi, Shay Banon
Langbase
Pre SeedAug 2024
$550K
Co-investors: Sam Awrabi (Banyan Ventures), Amrit Saxena (Saxena Capital), Tom Preston-Werner (Preston-Werner Ventures), Amjad Masad, Guy Podjarny
Alix
Series UnknownJul 2024$4M
$30M
Co-investors: Laura Rippy (Alumni Ventures ), Andrew McKinzie (aCrew Capital), Lauren Kolodny (aCrew Capital), Ron Pragides
Producer/Principal End Cue2013 - Present
Executive Chairman SignalFire2013 - Present
Managing Partner Kortschak Investments2010 - Present
Founder, USC Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity University of Southern California2009 - Present
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