Chip Smith
Angel Investor
Washington, United States
Chip Smith is a seed investor in Washington focused on Internet and Infrastructure. Prior to GPG, Chip was a Deputy Campaign Manager and the Chief Operating Officer for Vice President Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign. As a member of the senior strategic team, Chip designed, built and directed the campaign’s day-to-day operations.From 1996 to 2000, Chip was the Chief of Staff at MCI and an Executive Director of Strategy andCommunications. There he directed internal and external communications as well as overall messaging to Wall Street, industry analysts, media, regulators, customers, shareholders and employees.Before joining MCI, Chip was an Executive Vice President at Shrum, Devine & Donilon, Inc., a leading political media and public relations consulting firm. There he helped conceive, produce and place media in nine winning U.S. Senate campaigns and seven winning congressional campaigns. Chip began his career as a legislative assistant to Senator Wyche Fowler, Jr.A native of Atlanta, Chip received a Bachelor of Arts with distinction in American Studies from Colby College, and a Masters in Business Administration from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He lives with his wife and two children in Washington, D.C.
- Total investments:
- 1
- Last investment:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 1 (100%)
- Infrastructure 1 (100%)
- Network Security 1 (100%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Syntropy is transforming the public internet into a secure and user-centric internet through a unifying layer where the encryption and optimized performance are built-in and automatically enabled for anything and everything connected to it. | $5M / Seed / Jul 04, 2019 |
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What does Chip Smith invest in?
Chip Smith invests primarily in Internet, Infrastructure and Network Security startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Gibraltar. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Chip Smith closed in Jul 2019. Shizune tracks 1 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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