Chad Byers
Co-founder & General Partner @ Susa Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Chad Byers is a seed investor at Susa Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and FinTech. Chad Byers is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures, where he focuses on investments in marketplaces, fintech, and healthcare. Chad led Susa’s investments in Robinhood, Andela, Newfront Insurance, Mux, Viz, Sundae Homes, and Stord. Raised in Silicon Valley, Chad was exposed to entrepreneurship and venture capital at an early age. Hewas named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 for VC in 2015. Prior to Susa Ventures, Chad was the senior director of platform at Integrate.com and held various marketing and product roles at Silver Spring Networks, Bloom Energy, and Electronic Arts. Chad chased his love for skiing, mountains, and the outdoors to Boulder, Colorado where he mostly did those things but also received a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science.
- Total investments:
- 69
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries Chad Byers invests in
Stages Chad Byers invests in
Countries Chad Byers invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 14 (20%)
- FinTech 9 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (13%)
- SaaS 7 (10%)
- Finance 7 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 34 (49%)
- Series A 15 (22%)
- Series B 5 (7%)
- Series C 3 (4%)
- Series D 3 (4%)
Country
- United States 41 (59%)
- Canada 2 (3%)
- Mexico 1 (1%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Optura is healthcare’s AI orchestration platform designed to turn disconnected pilots into a unified, enterprise-scale AI program. | $17.5M / Series A / May 14, 2026 | ||
| Asymmetric Security is an AI-native cybersecurity startup specializing in digital forensics and incident response. It combines elite forensic experts with proprietary AI to accelerate investigations, especially Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, at less than half the cost of competitors while shrinking timelines from days to hours. | $4.2M / Pre-Seed / Jan 23, 2026 | ||
| AI for professional accountants and accounting firms | $9M / Seed / Dec 11, 2025 | ||
| Rillet is an AI-native ERP that automates accounting for complex revenue models, allowing for fast book closings and providing a reliable source of truth. The solution covers the full spectrum of accounting and finance needs, including customer invoicing, GAAP-compliant revenue recognition, automated bank reconciliations, accrual-based expenserecognition, real-time SaaS metrics, and other analytics capabilities. Rillet covers multiple entities, geographies, and currencies and allows for consolidated multi-currency reportin,g all embedded within one platform. | $25M / Series A / May 28, 2025 | ||
| Optura is healthcare’s AI orchestration platform designed to turn disconnected pilots into a unified, enterprise-scale AI program. | $6.5M / Seed / May 20, 2025 | ||
| Merit aims to solve the "attribution problem" in software development. In the world of open source, which powers more than 97% of the apps that customers use daily, both IT titans and freelance programmers contribute to products that are freely available for anybody to access and enhance. | $10M / Seed / Jan 16, 2025 | ||
| Tildei is on a mission to change the way marketing happens by enabling brands to hold real conversations in a radically simple way. We believe the future of marketing is conversational, and we are building the next generation platform to support enterprise brands to have meaningful conversations with their customers, at scale.Our platform allowsenterprise brands to reach customers where they already are and conduct meaningful, AI-powered conversations to enable on-brand yet personalized conversations with all the guardrails. | $6M / Seed / Oct 08, 2024 | ||
| Garden assists lawyers and businesses in automating the creation of new patents and analyzing potential infringements. The company develops AI agents that manage routine tasks, enabling users to concentrate on patent strategy. | $6.8M / Seed / Aug 15, 2024 | ||
| Rillet is an AI-native ERP that automates accounting for complex revenue models, allowing for fast book closings and providing a reliable source of truth. The solution covers the full spectrum of accounting and finance needs, including customer invoicing, GAAP-compliant revenue recognition, automated bank reconciliations, accrual-based expenserecognition, real-time SaaS metrics, and other analytics capabilities. Rillet covers multiple entities, geographies, and currencies and allows for consolidated multi-currency reportin,g all embedded within one platform. | $13.5M / Seed / Jul 29, 2024 | ||
| Smashing, an invite-only app by Daily Reader Labs, tackles content overload and social media burnout | $3.4M / Seed / Jun 25, 2024 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Susa Ventures
Susa Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed rounds, backing companies at their earliest stages and beyond.
Susa Ventures Contacts
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Chad Byers
Co-founder & General Partner
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Courtney Lipkin
Partner
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Derick En'Wezoh, MD
Healthcare and Tech Investor
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Hammad Aslam
Investor
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Kenny Joo
Head of Finance
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What does Chad Byers invest in?
Chad Byers invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 69 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Chad Byers closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 69 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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