Charles Smith
Venture Partner @ Social Starts
New York, United States
Charles Smith is a seed investor at Social Starts in New York focused on Software and Media and Entertainment. Charles Smith is the Venture Partner at Ataraxia.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Charles Smith invests in
Stages Charles Smith invests in
Countries Charles Smith invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (33%)
- Media and Entertainment 3 (25%)
- Fashion 2 (17%)
- Wedding 2 (17%)
- Internet 2 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (67%)
- Angel 2 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Castle Finance is a software program that offers funding merchandise and economic equipment as a way to permit DAOs to thrive. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / May 20, 2022 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Bark uses AI to detect and proactively alert parents to issues their children face, such as cyberbullying, suicidal ideation, and school shooting threats. By only showing parents potential problems on their children's social media, text messaging, and email accounts, Bark's approach saves parents valuable time and helps build trustbetween parent and child.Bark Technologies was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. | $575K / Seed / Oct 22, 2015 | ||
| 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 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 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 is an online wedding boutique which offers bridesmaids dresses for sale or rent. | $1.3M / Seed / Feb 27, 2014 | ||
| 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 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.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 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Social Starts
Social Starts is a venture capital firm with a data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds. The firm prefers to invest in early-stage companies operating in the technology, health tech, internet, and mobile tech sectors.
Social Starts Contacts
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What does Charles Smith invest in?
Charles Smith invests primarily in Software, Media and Entertainment and Fashion startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 12 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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