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
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CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
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Series AJun 2026$40M
$65M
Co-investors: John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins), David Helgason (foobar.vc), Ross Mason (Dig Ventures), Niklas Zennström (Atomico), Khaled Helioui
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), Manik Gupta (Uber), Thomas Cuvelier (none), Chris Zock (Sandbox Industries)
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 French (Antler), Adam Cragg (Osney Capital), Dan Scheinman (Scheinman Angel Fund)
Inversion
SeedSep 2025$27M
$81M
Co-investors: Casey Caruso (Paradigm), Nabeel Hyatt (Spark Capital), Santo Politi (Spark Capital), Nico Wittenborn (Adjacent), Chris Moran (Applied Materials), 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.), Andrew Steinwold, Balaji Srinivasan
Sauna by 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), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Ben Parr (Theory Forge VC), Matt Brown (Matrix), Ben Tossell (Ben Tossell's Rolling Fund), Masha Bucher (Day One Ventures), Azeem Azhar (Xtripe Angels), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), Siqi Chen (Laserlike Inc), Donald Stalter (Sunshine Lake), Tod Sacerdoti (Flex Capital, LLC // Turbo Ventures, LLC), Kulveer Taggar (Angel investor), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund), Paul Graham, Thijn Lamers, Paul Stahura, 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
Founding Investor & Advisor SignalFirePresent
Early Investor LyftPresent
Early Investor Palantir TechnologiesPresent
Executive Chairman & CIO SignalFirePresent
Board Member EllipticPresent
Board Member BubblePresent
Board Member & Investor PlaycoPresent
Board Member & Seed Investor TokuPresent
Board Member & Seed Investor Toku (prev. WorkDAO)Present
Board Member & Seed Investor TorpagoPresent
Board Member & Seed Investor Vital InteractionPresent
Chairman Emeritus/Founding Investor SignalFirePresent
Senior Advisor Summit PartnersPresent
Board Member & Seed Investor ReziPresent
Pre-Seed & Founding Investor Finnrick AnalyticsPresent
Board Member Dual (Previously BLOCKv)Present
General Partner Summit PartnersPresent
Managing Partner Summit PartnersPresent
Founder Kortschak InvestmentsPresent
Partner Kortschak InvestmentsPresent
Co-Founder End CuePresent
Co-Founder/ Principal End CuePresent
Former Managing Partner Summit PartnersPresent
Founder Firestreak VenturesPresent
Partner Firestreak VenturesPresent
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