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Brian Schechter

Partner at Primary Venture Partners

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Brian Schechter is a Partner at Primary Venture Partners in New York City, specializing in investing in pre-seed and seed stage companies in various sectors. He has made impactful contributions to companies like HumanX and Etched.ai as an investor and board member. Schechter's career highlights include his role as Co-Founder & CEO of SelfMade and his involvement in various board positions at companies like Teleskope, Cake, and Jed Security, showcasing his expertise in entrepreneurship and leadership within the startup ecosystem.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2020 - Current

    Building & Investing.

  • Board Member

    2023

Teleskope provides data classification and redaction as a service, detecting personal, sensitive, and business-critical data elements.

Raised $7,200,000.00 from Lerer Hippeau, Essence VC, Plug and Play and Primary Venture Partners.

  • Board Member

    2023

Etched.ai is an AI chip startup that develops Sohu, a chip designed specifically for running transformer models.

Raised $125,360,000.00 from Dolik Ventures, Lightscape Partners, Mei Z., Oceans, Fundomo, Fontinalis Partners, Hummingbird Ventures, Amjad Masad, Thomas Dohmke and Peter Thiel.

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Investor

    2021

    Bioreactors for cultivated meat

Intelligent bioprocess platform

Raised $16,680,259.00 from HCVC, Natalie Portman, David Barber, Kevin Carter, Primary Venture Partners and Rob Hayes.

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Board Member

    2021

    Production ready open source

Plural offers fleet management software that deploys and operates production-ready open-source applications.

Raised $11,072,130.00 from SignalFire, Susa Ventures and Primary Venture Partners.

  • Board Member

    2015

    SelfMade sells marketing solutions to D2C brands.

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2015 - 2020

SelfMade uses technology to connect members with professional image editors, allowing them to build a powerful brand at an affordable price.

Raised $16,000,000.00 from ff Venture Capital.

  • Board Member

    2021 - 2023

    Edge case resolution for robotics automation -- Exited to John Deere

SparkAI is a real-time edge case resolution for AI in production.

Raised $7,340,000.00.

  • Startup Studio - Studio Lead

    2015 - 2015

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