Rick Smith
Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Crosscut Ventures
Los Angeles, United States
Rick Smith is a seed investor at Crosscut Ventures in Los Angeles focused on Software and Advertising. Rick Smith is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Crosscut Ventures. Rick is an early-stage venture capital investor focused on seed and Series A investments in the Internet, mobile, software and gaming. He has been a venture capital investor since 1997. He has invested in several successful start-ups, including JustFab, Ipsy, GumGum,Docstoc, Shoedazzle, Verve Mobile, Super Evil Megacorp, Dermstore, Magma Design, Micromuse, Maverick Networks, Netcontinuum, Trivida and Pulpo Media.He received a Finance degree from the University of Illinois, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He previously worked at Palomar Ventures, SunAmerica and Milbank Tweed.
- Total investments:
- 27
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 44%
Last updated:
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Industries Rick Smith invests in
Stages Rick Smith invests in
Countries Rick Smith invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (26%)
- Advertising 4 (15%)
- SaaS 3 (11%)
- E-Commerce 3 (11%)
- Apps 2 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (44%)
- Series A 8 (30%)
- Funding Round 3 (11%)
- Series B 1 (4%)
Investments
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Carbon Ridge
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Carbon Ridge is a technology that offers a fuel-independent method to decarbonize ships. | $9.5M / Oct 22, 2024 | |
Loyal Foundry
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Loyal Foundry is a global mobile app consolidator. The company builds and acquires mobile apps that make people’s lives both easier and more enjoyable. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, California, United States. | Series A / Jun 29, 2022 | |
Privacy Dynamics
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Data privacy tools built for analytics engineers and the modern data stack. | $4M / Seed / Mar 01, 2021 | |
Retina AI
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Retina uses next-gen algorithms and the data you already collect to pinpoint your highest-value customers — and deliver the insights you need to reach more just like them. | $2.5M / Feb 04, 2020 | |
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Retina AI
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Retina uses next-gen algorithms and the data you already collect to pinpoint your highest-value customers — and deliver the insights you need to reach more just like them. | $2.5M / Seed / Feb 04, 2020 | |
Extend, Inc.
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Extend is an API first company that allows any merchant to offer extended warranties and protection plans, both online and offline, while also providing the merchant's end customers with a vastly improved and modern support experience that eliminates many of the issues customers face today with legacy underwriters. Their intelligent decisionengine uses machine learning to optimize warranty offers in real-time, thereby improving warranty and cart conversions and generating the most revenue for the merchant. Extend platform is integrated into leading eCommerce solutions including Shopify, Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, BigCommerce, and others so that they can be up and running quickly, with no technical requirements. They also provide custom API integrations for larger merchants who have their own eCommerce platform. It stores all the details of an individual's product purchase and warranty plan for them, while also assisting throughout the claim process to create a seamless experience from start to finish.It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $16.4M / Series A / Nov 06, 2019 | |
Fuse Inventory
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Fuse is a cloud-based inventory planning solution built for fast-growth, omnichannel brands. | $2.7M / Seed / Aug 20, 2019 | |
Avinew
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Avinew is helping to insure a safer road with insurance technologies that enable the safety, value and freedom that comes with automated driving systems and autonomous vehicles. | $5M / Seed / Jan 30, 2019 | |
Teampay
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Teampay’s award-winning platform helps larger SMBs and middle-market businesses across industries manage expenses. By streamlining the purchase process across virtual and physical cards, invoices, and reimbursements, Teampay makes company purchases easy for employees and finance teams alike. | $4M / Seed / Feb 22, 2018 | |
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Retina AI
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Retina uses next-gen algorithms and the data you already collect to pinpoint your highest-value customers — and deliver the insights you need to reach more just like them. | Seed / Sep 01, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
About Crosscut Ventures
Crosscut Ventures, one of LA’s longest-standing seed funds, invests in founders building solutions that provide humanity with a better future. Crosscut partners with founders focused on clean energy generation and power distribution, the commercialization of frontiers in space, the ocean, and the earth, decarbonization, and the upgrading of theU.S.'s defense systems. The firm is committed to using its 16+ years of experience, widespread connectivity, and proven playbooks to bring companies to commercial viability for the betterment of humanity.
Crosscut Ventures Contacts
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Brett Brewer
Co-Founder & Managing Director
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Rick Smith
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Brian Garrett
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Lisa Riedmiller
CFO
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Mel Elias
Venture Partner
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What does Rick Smith invest in?
Rick Smith invests primarily in Software, Advertising and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 27 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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The most recent investment recorded for Rick Smith closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 27 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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