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Bart Schachter
Managing Director, Blueprint Ventures

Bart has 17 years of entrepreneurial, venture, and industry operating experience in communication semiconductors, wireless, and infrastructure software. He has backed and served on the boards of over 25 emerging technology companies including Covad, Copper Mountain, Media4 (EchoStar), GlobeSpanVirata (Conexant), and Broadband Access Systems (ADC). His investment focus includes wireless technologies, nanoelectronics, and communications semiconductors.

Blueprint Ventures is a San Francisco investment firm focused on technology start-ups including components, systems, and software/services. The firm works with exceptional entrepreneurs to deliver disruptive technologies to market in a capital-efficient manner. Blueprint is the industry innovator in leading Corporate IP Spinouts by partnering with high-tech companies to commercialize their non-core, pre-revenue intellectual property.