Applications for Susa Ventures Fellows 2025 are now live

Susa Fellows is for venture‑backed founders, operators at top companies, and exceptional students who want to scale writing personal checks to investing with a platform.

Susa Ventures is a seed-stage fund that helps you build the next billion-dollar company. Since 2013, we've partnered with over 100 startups from the earliest stages – 10% have become unicorns.  

Join companies like Robinhood, Flexport, Stord, Human Interest, Together AI, and many more.

Working with us

  • We invest exclusively at the pre-seed and seed-stage
  • We invest up to $5m
  • We help you by providing capital, customers, community and talent
  • We don't take board seats and believe founders should never be removed
  • We provide frameworks and stories of lived experience, not prescriptive advice

Team

Investors

Chad Byers, co-founder and GP
Derick En’Wezoh, MD, partner
Misha Gordon-Rowe, partner
Pratyush Buddiga, partner
Shaheer Sandhu, investor


Emeritus

Leo Polovets, founder emeritus
Seth Berman, founder emeritus


Venture Partner

Courtney Buie Lipkin, venture partner

Portfolio

Partnered with all companies at pre-seed and seed stage
AI

Casetext – AI platform for legal professionals (acquired by Thompson Reuters for $650M)
Cluely – AI assistant for virtual meetings and sales calls

Expanse –  AI cybersecurity platform (acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $800M)

Hanover Park – AI fund admin

Henry AI – AI deal assistant for commercial real estate

*Mashgin – Autonomous checkout kiosks

MK-1 – AI inference + long context

*Together AI – Platform to develop, train, and deploy GenAI models

Consumer

Hallow – Catholic prayer and meditation

Modern Animal – Modern veterinary clinic

*Robinhood – Digital brokerage (IPO $HOOD)

Fintech

Ascend – Financial rails for commercial insurance

Float – Business finance platform

Flock Homes – The retirement solution for landlords

*Human Interest – 401(k)s for small businesses

Meadow – Financial platform for higher education

Nelo – Buy now, pay later for LatAm

*Newfront Insurance – Modern commercial insurance brokerage

Healthcare

*Chapter – Medicare navigation

Medallion – Automating medical licensing in the US

*Nourish – Virtual nutrition care

Regard – AI-powered clinical insights platform

Stedi – API-first healthcare clearinghouse

Superpower – Digital concierge clinic helping patients live longer

*Viz – AI-powered care coordination and disease detection platform

B2B Software

Aquera – Identity integration platform as a service

BetterStack –  Observability tools for developers

*Mux – Video streaming APIs, data, and players

Periscope Data – Analytics and predictive modeling (acquired by Sisense)
Rillet – Modern ERP that automates accounting for high-growth companies

Runwise – SaaS monitoring and control for building heating systems
Scalyr – High speed logging startup (acquired by SentinalOne)

Supply Chain

*Flexport – Digital freight forwarder

Loop – Transportation cost management

Nuvo – Trade credit management

*Stord – Cloud supply chain for brands

*Unicorns
And many more »