# Chad Byers

> Chad Byers is a seed investor at Susa Ventures (San Francisco) backing Software and FinTech. See 69 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Susa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/susa-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 69
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chadabyers
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/chadbyers
- Website: http://chadbyers.com/

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 14 | 20% |
| FinTech | 9 | 13% |
| SaaS | 8 | 12% |
| Apps | 6 | 9% |
| Finance | 6 | 9% |

89 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 32 | 46% |
| Series A | 15 | 22% |
| Series B | 5 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 6% |
| Series C | 3 | 4% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 38 | 55% |
| Canada | 2 | 3% |
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Optura | 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 | 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 |  |
| Marble | AI for professional accountants and accounting firms | $9M | Seed | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| Rillet | 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 | 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 Systems | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  | Jul 29, 2024 |  |
| Rillet | 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 |  |

10 of 69 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

## About Susa Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Susa Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed rounds, backing companies at their earliest stages and beyond.

5 contacts available at Susa Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chad Byers | Co-founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chad-byers |
| Courtney Lipkin | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/courtney-lipkin |
| Derick En'Wezoh, MD | Healthcare and Tech Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/derick-en-wezoh |
| Hammad Aslam | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hammad-aslam |
| Kenny Joo | Head of Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenny-joo |

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## FAQ

### What does Chad Byers invest in?

Chad Byers invests primarily in Software, FinTech and SaaS 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.

### When did Chad Byers last invest?

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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