# Ashley Smith

> Ashley Smith is a seed investor at Vermilion Cliffs Ventures backing Software. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Vermilion Cliffs Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vermilion-ventures)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley5/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ashl3ysm1th
- Website: https://vermilion.fund

Ashley Smith is a seed investor at Vermilion Cliffs Ventures in New York focused on Software and Developer Tools. Ashley Smith is the GP and Founder of Vermilion Cliffs Ventures.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 50% |
| Developer Tools | 3 | 38% |
| SaaS | 2 | 25% |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 2 | 25% |
| Software Engineering | 2 | 25% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 38% |
| France | 1 | 13% |
| Germany | 1 | 13% |
| Australia | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lemma | Lemma offers an AI platform that automates prompt optimization and continuous learning for model improvement. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Aug 13, 2026 | https://www.uselemma.ai |
| Catio | Catio is a cloud infrastructure platform enabling companies to excel with cloud-native tech stacks, focused on tech stack evaluation, planning, and evolution. | $3M | Seed | Mar 05, 2025 | http://www.catio.tech |
| Freeplay | Freeplay builds AI features that do real work. | $5.6M | Seed | Sep 30, 2024 | https://228labs.com |
| beams | beams helps you navigate your workday with more focus and less stress |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 15, 2023 | https://usebeams.com/ |
| Strapi | Strapi is an open-source software helping developers to easily build, deploy, and manage APIs. Its open-source headless CMS provides backend functionality for applications and gives developers the freedom to use the tools of their choice for front-end frameworks. It’s called headless because the frontend is not part of the CMS, but there’s an APIfor content to show up on different devices.The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Paris, Ile-de-France. | $31M | Series B | Jun 22, 2022 | http://www.strapi.io/ |
| Makelog | Makelog makes it easy to create, centralize, and share product updates with your customers and internal teams. | $3M | Seed | Jun 21, 2022 | https://www.makelog.com |
| Cloudthread | Cloudthread is a cloud analytics platform that helps developers create cost-effective apps. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $3M | Seed | Dec 15, 2021 | https://cloudthread.io |
| Buildkite | Buildkite helps you ship your software faster and more reliably, with testing and deployment tools that work for all of your software projects – whether you build mobile apps, backend applications, or custom hardware. | $20.3M | Series A | Aug 18, 2020 | https://buildkite.com/ |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Eniac Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eniac-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [RRE Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rre-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Basecamp Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basecamp-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bluewatch Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bluewatch-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Vermilion Cliffs Ventures

VC Fund

Vermilion Ventures is an Investment firm.

1 contacts available at Vermilion Cliffs Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ashley Smith | GP and Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashley-smith-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Ashley Smith invest in?

Ashley Smith invests primarily in Software, Developer Tools and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 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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### When did Ashley Smith last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ashley Smith closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 8 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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