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Investor profile

Brian Schechter

Partner, Primary Venture Partners

About

Brian is a two-time founder who co-founded dating platform HowAboutWe and later SelfMade before joining Primary Venture Partners, where he draws on an eclectic background spanning high school sports, theatre, classroom teaching, meditation retreats, and political organizing to shape his hands-on approach to supporting founders through both operational challenges and psychological dynamics. He has shifted his investment focus from consumer companies to AI and developer infrastructure, emphasizing the full-stack AI value chain and backing technical tools used by developers while maintaining his founder-operator perspective on growth and company-building. Brian is a two-time founder who co-founded dating platform HowAboutWe and later SelfMade before joining Primary Venture Partners, where he draws on an eclectic background spanning high school sports, theatre, classroom teaching, meditation retreats, and political organizing to shape his hands-on approach to supporting founders through both operational challenges and psychological dynamics. He has shifted his investment focus from consumer companies to AI and developer infrastructure, emphasizing the full-stack AI value chain and backing technical tools used by developers while maintaining his founder-operator perspective on growth and company-building.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Sectors
Health
FinTech
Deeptech
Hardware
Proptech
AI
SaaS
Ecommerce

Investment details

Avg check size$100K - $5M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
USA