Investing Profile

Walter Kortschak(118)

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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
Inversion
SeedSep 2025$27M
$81M
Co-investors: Casey Caruso (Paradigm), Santo Politi (Spark Capital), Nabeel Hyatt (Spark Capital), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Eric Del Balso (Kohala Ventures), Jenna Bryant (Embedded Ventures), Jordan Noone (Embedded Ventures), Aniq Kassam (FAST — by GETTYLAB), Serge Kassardjian (6th Man Ventures), Chris Moran (Lockheed Martin Ventures), Nico Wittenborn (Adjacent), Andrew Steinwold, Balaji Srinivasan, Kyle Vogt
Wordware
SeedNov 2024$30M
$31M
Co-investors: Nabeel Hyatt (Spark Capital), Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Topher Conway (SV Angel), Brian Jacobs (Emergence Capital), Beth Turner (SV Angel), Astasia Myers (Felicis Ventures), Donald Stalter (Global Founders Capital), Tod Sacerdoti (Flex Capital), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund), Neil Shah (Greenoaks Capital), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), John Fogelsong (Friends & Family Capital), Ben Parr (Theory Forge Ventures), Matt Brown (Matrix), Masha Bucher (Day One Ventures), Azeem Azhar, Kulveer Taggar, Paul Graham, Ben Tossell, Mathilde Collin, Siqi Chen, Paul Stahura, Thijn Lamers
Twenty
SeedNov 2024$5M
$5M
Co-investors: Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Jonathan Golden (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Konstantin Vinogradov (Runa Capital), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), Denis Lafont-Trevisan (OpenCapital.vc), Yuri Sagalov (10100), Dharmesh Shah, Sergei Anikin, Jean Charles Samuelian, Mathilde Collin
Twenty (YC S23)
SeedNov 2024$5M
$5M
Co-investors: Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Jonathan Golden (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Yuri Sagalov (10100), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), Dharmesh Shah, Sergei Anikin, Jean Charles Samuelian, Mathilde Collin
Keep
Pre SeedOct 2024$3M
$650M
Co-investors: Jenny Lee (Granite Asia), Haojun Li (Granite Asia), Marc Bhargava (General Catalyst), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Elwin Yuan (5Y Capital), Nathan Doctor (Infinite Capital), Konstantin Vinogradov (Runa Capital), Andrew Miklas (S28 Capital), Warrick Shanly (Soma Capital), Arash Ferdowsi, Ravi Grover, 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 ), 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