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Brian Schechter

Partner, Infrastructure

Thesis

AI demand is growing exponentially 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, irresistible 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

Ark

Accelerating bioprocessing with predictive simulation software for optimized manufacturing in pharma.

Atero

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Maximizing GPU performance for AI workloads.

Cake AI

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The fastest path to production AI.

Etched

A compute stack powering the fastest inference in the world.

HumanX

The #1 AI conference for business leaders.

Jed Security

Next generation attack surface management.

Plural

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Control plane for platform teams managing Kubernetes at scale.

Spark AI

Edge case resolution for robotics in the real world.

Tabs

The AI-native revenue platform for modern finance.

Teleskope

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Automated data protection, at scale.

The Biological Computing Company

Biological, neuron-powered compute for optimizing AI models.

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.

Gavin Uberti
Founder, CEO

Associate

Gaby Lorenzi

Senior Associate, Infrastructure

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.