# Charles Smith

> Charles Smith is a seed investor at Ataraxia backing Media and Entertainment and Fashion. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ataraxia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ataraxia-2c9d)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smithcharles
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/CharlesSmithC
- Website: https://x.com/CharlesSmithC

Charles Smith is a seed investor at Ataraxia in New York focused on Media and Entertainment and Fashion. Charles Smith is the Venture Partner at Ataraxia.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Media and Entertainment | 3 | 30% |
| Fashion | 2 | 20% |
| Wedding | 2 | 20% |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| Education | 2 | 20% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 70% |
| Angel | 2 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wethos | Wethos Virtual Studios™ make it easy to confidently team up and transform your one-person shop into a full-service studio. | $1.1M |  | Aug 12, 2017 |  |
| hellotoken | hellotoken enables publishers to earn 10x more per visitor than ads and paywalls through a native, one-click question that serves as a micropayment. For marketers, we leverage the readership networks of online publications to instantly target and distribute survey questions to hard-to-reach demographics. We help startups and companies validatetheir ideas, products, logos, and other concepts through our platform's reach of millions of blog readers. | $500K | Angel | Aug 14, 2015 |  |
| Hakka Labs | Hakka Labs creates original content, resources and training events to help software engineers level up their skills. Our CTO video interviews, engineering meetups and email newsletters are must-have resources trusted by thousands of developers to keep them up-to-date on the latest software development trends, events and career opportunities. | $500K | Angel | Feb 19, 2015 |  |
| Union Station | Union Station is an online marketplace for bridesmaids’ dressings. The company provides a wide range of dressings that consists of 18 colors. At least 3 months before brides should inform the company with the colors they need to wear. Then the company guarantees about the dresses. Brides can search through the website and order up to 3 free fabricswatches that delivers to their house. Afterwards if the colors are matching, brides can register their wedding with Union Station.Union Station is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2013 by Corie Hardee. | $1.3M | Seed | Feb 27, 2014 |  |
| Little Borrowed Dress | Little Borrowed Dress is an online wedding boutique which offers bridesmaids dresses for sale or rent. | $1.3M | Seed | Feb 27, 2014 |  |
| Maker's Row | Maker’s Row is an online marketplace launched in November 2012 that connects American manufacturers with small, medium-sized, and product-based businesses. In early summer 2013, Maker’s Row claims to have the most accessible list of American manufacturers available online for apparel production.It was established in 2012 and is based in Brooklyn,New York. | $1M | Seed | Jul 19, 2013 |  |
| Windowfarms | Windowfarms are vertical, low-energy, high-yield edible gardens. The patent-pending hydroponic systems are currently sold online in the US & Canada. The company provides consumers, educators, and food service businesses with attractive hydroponic systems, renewable accessories, and a shareable experience of growing fresh localvegetables indoors, even during the winter. Growing food in a windowfarm brings people together in real life and online. Thus, the company has grown rapidly along with its global online community of 35,000+ at our.windowfarms.org. These windowfarmers share techniques, constraints of individual window microclimates, troubleshooting, curricula, recipes, d-i-y improvements, environmental impact assessments, and personal opinions on subjects ranging from energy use to childhood obesity. Entrepreneur magazine named Windowfarms to its Top 100 Brilliant Companies in 2010, and to the Top 10 in Home Improvement, for a product customers describe as lush, trickling fountain-like sculptures, apartment green space, and living refrigerators. Appearances on the Martha Stewart Show, NPR, Good Morning America, and a feature in an upcoming PBS TV series drive nationwide brand recognition. |  | Seed | Jan 02, 2013 |  |
| Lover.ly | Lover.y is the wedding inspiration and content site helping savvy couples plan their weddings online. From thousands of helpful wedding planning articles to their weekly free wedding planning newsletter, couples turn to Loverly as their trusted source for planning their dream wedding. | $500K | Seed | Feb 14, 2012 |  |
| numberFire | numberFire is an analytics framework that uses mathematical modeling and algorithmic analysis to understand, analyze, and predict sports performance. | $750K | Seed | Jan 05, 2012 |  |
| Shelby.tv | Shelby.tv is the best way to discover and enjoy web video. Now available in the App Store, the Shelby.tv app delivers you a personalized channel of videos from sources like YouTube, Vimeo, Hulu, Blip, and DailyMotion, as well as video shared by your friends on Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook. Over time, Shelby.tv gets smart about what you like anddon’t like and improves recommendations to give you that perfect daily dose of video entertainment. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 14, 2011 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Brooklyn Bridge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brooklyn-bridge-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alpaca VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpaca-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Avalon Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalon-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Azure Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/azure-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Max Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basset-investment-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CRCM](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/CRCM) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Ataraxia

VC Fund

Ataraxia, an early stage fund manager focused on helping people live longer and live better.

5 contacts available at Ataraxia.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Charles Smith | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-smith |
| Charles Smith | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-c-smith |
| Andrew Nealon | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-nealon |
| Claire Cherry | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claire-cherry |
| Holly Jacobus | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holly-jacobus |

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## FAQ

### What does Charles Smith invest in?

Charles Smith invests primarily in Media and Entertainment, Fashion and Wedding startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 10 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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