John Smothers
Partner @ Scribble Ventures
San Francisco, United States
John Smothers is a seed investor at Scribble Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. John is a partner at Scribble Ventures
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries John Smothers invests in
Stages John Smothers invests in
Countries John Smothers invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (57%)
- SaaS 1 (14%)
- Shopping 1 (14%)
- E-Commerce 1 (14%)
- Legal Tech 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (57%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (29%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| c/side is a cybersecurity company that provides monitoring solutions, optimizing, and safeguarding vulnerable browser-side third-party scripts. | $6M / Seed / Sep 16, 2024 | ||
| c/side is a cybersecurity company that provides monitoring solutions, optimizing, and safeguarding vulnerable browser-side third-party scripts. | $1.7M / Pre-Seed / May 16, 2024 | ||
| Checkmate's a browser extension that generates you personalized deals based on who you are at 100k online stores. Your data's everywhere. Put it to work. Tell Checkmate about yourself in 30 seconds and start saving everywhere. | $15M / Series A / May 25, 2023 | ||
| WireMock develops an API Developer productivity platform. With the increasing growth of Microservices and API first architecture, dev teams' increased dependency on 3rd party APIs as well as internal APIs presents challenges that impact their dev productivity. WireMock helps developers to mock/virtualize APIs, break that dependency andimprove productivity.WireMock delivers the popular WireMock open-source tool as well as a cloud edition - WireMock Cloud. | $6.5M / Seed / May 24, 2023 | ||
| Streamline AI provides an AI-powered intake and workflow automation software designed for legal teams. The platform uses a no-code interface to help companies optimize processes and manage workflows. It supports high-volume request handling while addressing legal concerns such as confidentiality, data permissions, control, and measurement. Thesoftware enables the creation of no-code workflows to automate tasks like approvals and assignments without requiring engineering input. | $3M / Seed / Nov 02, 2022 | ||
| nMachine is a low-code solution that lets companies rapidly create powerful operations platforms for their engineers, who need to safely operate their complex, programmable, cloud native infrastructure every day. In other words, we are building programmable platforms (i.e programmable PaaS’s) for the modern programmable infrastructure era. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Oct 05, 2022 | ||
| Checkmate's a browser extension that generates you personalized deals based on who you are at 100k online stores. Your data's everywhere. Put it to work. Tell Checkmate about yourself in 30 seconds and start saving everywhere. | $5M / Seed / Sep 26, 2022 |
Co-Investors
About Scribble Ventures
Scribble Ventures is an early-stage investment fund that focuses on Pre-Seed through Series A.
Scribble Ventures Contacts
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Elizabeth Weil
Founder and Managing Director
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Elizabeth Weil
Founder and Managing Director
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John Smothers
Partner
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Ron Pragides
Limited Partner
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What does John Smothers invest in?
John Smothers invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Shopping startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 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 John Smothers last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for John Smothers closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 7 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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