# Justin Smith

> Justin Smith is a venture - series unknown investor at Recharge Capital backing SaaS and Shopping. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Recharge Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/recharge-capital-3d5d)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jun 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-b-smith

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Shopping | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Messaging | 1 | 100% |
| Social Shopping | 1 | 100% |

7 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Whym | 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 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Trajectory Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trajectory-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Comma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comma-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Flex Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flex-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [irrvntVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/irrvntvc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Precursor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/precursor-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Recharge Capital

VC Fund · New York, United States

Recharge Capital invests capital and operating resources in technology and business solutions that energize the development of high-potential sectors.

3 contacts available at Recharge Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Justin Smith | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-smith-12 |
| Lorin Gu | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lorin-gu |
| Margaret Wang | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/margaret-wang-855d |

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## FAQ

### What does Justin Smith invest in?

Justin Smith invests primarily in SaaS, Shopping and Software startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Justin Smith last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Justin Smith closed in Jun 2021. 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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