Walter Kortschak
- Producer
- Location Management
- Executive
Walter Kortschak is a producer, writer and co-founder of End Cue, a film development and production company in Culver City, CA.
Walter is an engineer, venture capitalist, senior advisor at Summit Partners and a board trustee of Caltech. He has 40 years of experience as an investor from seed through growth stage. He started his career as a software engineer in the computer graphics industry before becoming a venture capitalist at the first seed venture firm (Crosspoint) in 1985. He was a managing partner at Summit Partners for over two decades where he served as a director of over 50 companies, including 24 public companies. In 2013, he helped launch SignalFire as the first data-driven seed fund using a proprietary AI/ML platform to source investments and track technical talent across the globe. In 2023, he transitioned exclusively to investing his own capital in pre-seed and seed stage companies in ML/AI infra, open-source, cybersecurity and vertical AI/SaaS. He was selected 6 times to the Forbes Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists.
Walter received a B.S. from Oregon State University in 1981, an M.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1982, both in engineering, and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1986. He is a member of the Board of Trustees at the California Institute of Technology. He is also a past director of the National Venture Capital Association.
Walter and his wife, Marcia are active philanthropists having founded the Kortschak Scholars Program for Ph.D. students in computer science at the California Institute of Technology and the USC Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity. They also endowed the Division Chair in Film and Television Production at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Walter is an engineer, venture capitalist, senior advisor at Summit Partners and a board trustee of Caltech. He has 40 years of experience as an investor from seed through growth stage. He started his career as a software engineer in the computer graphics industry before becoming a venture capitalist at the first seed venture firm (Crosspoint) in 1985. He was a managing partner at Summit Partners for over two decades where he served as a director of over 50 companies, including 24 public companies. In 2013, he helped launch SignalFire as the first data-driven seed fund using a proprietary AI/ML platform to source investments and track technical talent across the globe. In 2023, he transitioned exclusively to investing his own capital in pre-seed and seed stage companies in ML/AI infra, open-source, cybersecurity and vertical AI/SaaS. He was selected 6 times to the Forbes Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists.
Walter received a B.S. from Oregon State University in 1981, an M.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1982, both in engineering, and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1986. He is a member of the Board of Trustees at the California Institute of Technology. He is also a past director of the National Venture Capital Association.
Walter and his wife, Marcia are active philanthropists having founded the Kortschak Scholars Program for Ph.D. students in computer science at the California Institute of Technology and the USC Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity. They also endowed the Division Chair in Film and Television Production at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
