Justin Smith
Founder @ Chaos Ventures
New York, United States
Justin Smith is an investor at Argo Ventures, where he is responsible for sourcing opportunities, evaluating potential investments, and executing transactions.Prior to Argo Ventures, Justin Smith was the Vice President of Investments at Tusk Ventures, where he made investments in Bird, Lemonade, Coinbase, Nexar, Care/of, FanDuel, and Lyric.. Before joining Tusk Ventures, Justin was an investor at Providence Equity Partners, a $57 billion multi- strategy investment manager. During that time, Justin executed and oversaw approximately $400 million of investments in companies spanning a wide range of industries.Justin began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Leveraged Finance Group at Jefferies where he facilitated over $5 billion in high yield and leveraged loan transactions for financial sponsors and corporate clients. Justin also held a position in the assurance and advisory practice of Ernst & Young and is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the state of Texas.Justin received a Master in Professional Accounting and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.
- Total investments:
- 1
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- SaaS 1 (100%)
- Shopping 1 (100%)
- Software 1 (100%)
- Messaging 1 (100%)
- Social Shopping 1 (100%)
Investments
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| Whym is an end-to-end ecom, payments & first-party data software suite for social selling. Servicing more than 500 SMB merchants & mid-market retailers across 35,000 consumer wallets through unique, future-of-retail solutions like text-to-pay, universal multi-merchant carts, and transparent digital identities for shoppers.Trusted bybrands like Siete Foods, The Hundreds and Doe beauty.Backed by investors & angels at Stripe, Venmo, Paypal, Apple, Google, Lightspeed, Sequoia, Salesforce, Microsoft, Snap, Facebook, Redbull, Spotify, Bread (BNPL), Good Money, AirBNB, WeWork, The Council, AngelList, Fast Co, P&G, Amplitude, SAP & others.Built by ex-Snap employees who share a background in fintech, consumer GTM and retail software.Visit https://kellyny.land/ Whym is an end-to-end ecom, payments & first-party data software suite for social selling. Servicing more than 500 SMB merchants & mid-market retailers across 35,000 consumer wallets through unique, future-of-retail solutions like text-to-pay, universal multi-merchant carts, and transparent digital identities for shoppers. Trusted by brands like Siete Foods, The Hundreds and Doe beauty. Backed by investors & angels at Stripe, Venmo, Paypal, Apple, Google, Lightspeed, Sequoia, Salesforce, Microsoft, Snap, Facebook, Redbull, Spotify, Bread (BNPL), Good Money, AirBNB, WeWork, The Council, AngelList, Fast Co, P&G, Amplitude, SAP & others. Built by ex-Snap employees who share a background in fintech, consumer GTM and retail software. | $1.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 28, 2021 |
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About Chaos Ventures
Chaos Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with pre-seed through Series A startups. The firm was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York, United States.
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