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Chad Byers

Co-Founder & General Partner
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Investor Bay Area
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Background
  • Co-founded Susa Ventures in 2013
  • Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 for VC in 2015
  • Previously Senior Director of Platform at Integrate.com
  • Held marketing and product roles at Silver Spring Networks, Bloom Energy, and Electronic Arts
  • Also runs Byers Capital (family office, early-stage tech)
Companies
Susa Ventures
Bay Area · Pre-seed, Seed
VC
Investment Focus
  • AI infrastructure and alternative AI architectures
  • Data infrastructure and developer tools
  • Generative AI and AI research assistants
  • Marketplaces, fintech, healthcare, B2B SaaS, supply chain
  • Data-centric founders building category-defining businesses
Notable Investments
  • Robinhood (led seed)
  • Together AI (GenAI model training/inference platform, unicorn)
  • Supermemory (memory layer for AI agents — led $2.6M pre-seed)
  • Memories.ai (visual memory AI infrastructure — led seed)
  • Mux (video API infrastructure)
  • Casetext (AI legal platform, acquired by Thomson Reuters for $650M)
  • Expanse (AI cybersecurity, acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $800M)
AI Agent Relevance
  • Supermemory is literally building the memory layer for AI agents — direct thesis alignment
  • Memories.ai provides visual memory infrastructure for AI systems
  • Together AI provides the compute/model training layer
  • Fund V explicitly lists AI infrastructure as a core thesis area
  • Concentrated portfolio means genuine partner attention and deep support
  • $1M–$3M checks well-suited for seed rounds
Portfolio Reach · 4
Osmind
via Susa Ventures
Startup
WorkRamp
via Susa Ventures
Startup
Stord
via Susa Ventures
Startup
People Data Labs
via Susa Ventures
Startup
Colleagues · 6
Hammad Aslam
Investor at Susa Ventures · Susa Ventures
Seth Berman
General Partner at Susa Ventures · Susa Ventures
Pratyush Buddiga
Investor at Susa Ventures · Susa Ventures
Courtney Buie
Partner at Susa Ventures · Susa Ventures
Derick En'Wezoh
Investor at Susa Ventures · Susa Ventures
Misha Gordon-Rowe
Principal at Susa Ventures · Susa Ventures
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