# Russell Smith

> Russell Smith is a seed investor at Beam (London) backing Payments and Financial Services. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Beam](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beam-3d9b)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/russellharrymartinsmith
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/russellhmsmith
- Website: https://x.com/russellhmsmith

Russell Smith is a Supporter at Beam. He attended Durham University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Payments | 2 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 33% |
| iOS | 1 | 17% |
| Apps | 1 | 17% |
| IaaS | 1 | 17% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 33% |
| Canada | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Incredible | Incredible is repayments platform that leverages artificial intelligence & open finance to track, pay and reduce the cost of borrowing. | $1M | Pre-Seed | May 14, 2024 |  |
| Rise | Rise is an innovative payroll and compliance provider based in New York. Rise is a Web3-enabled platform helping businesses onboard, manage and pay local/international contractors while ensuring full compliance and alleviating burdensome tax processes. | $3.8M | Seed | Apr 24, 2023 |  |
| Practice | Practice's tools will help you fulfill your potential as a coach. With all your clients' details at your fingertips, you'll never lack the right information when you need it. | $10M | Seed | Oct 28, 2021 |  |
| Afriex | Afriex is a pioneering platform that allows its users to send and receive money to anybody around the globe. We use stablecoins to offer the fastest and cheapest remittance service to over 30 countries around the world. | $1.2M | Seed | Mar 22, 2021 |  |
| Qatalog | Qatalog eliminates your work chaos. No more constant pings, no more trivial meetings, and no more scouring for the latest doc.Our work hub connects the tools of modern collaboration — wikis, project management, team chat, and more — and lets you use them in concert with each other.It connects people and teams in the same way, so they can be insync when they're not in the same place. It’s the new way of work.Qatalog is a Salesforce Ventures company and a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor. | $15M | Series A | Oct 13, 2020 |  |
| Qatalog | Qatalog eliminates your work chaos. No more constant pings, no more trivial meetings, and no more scouring for the latest doc.Our work hub connects the tools of modern collaboration — wikis, project management, team chat, and more — and lets you use them in concert with each other.It connects people and teams in the same way, so they can be insync when they're not in the same place. It’s the new way of work.Qatalog is a Salesforce Ventures company and a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 01, 2019 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mosaic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mosaic-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Prototype Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/remote-first-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tiny VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiny-super-computer-investment-company) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [A$AP Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-ap-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angel Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-invest-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Beam

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Beam is the world’s first platform that crowdfunds training for homeless people and supports them into stable work.Funded by the Mayor of London and some of the world's top tech entrepreneurs, and partnered with leading national charities like Shelter and St Mungo's, Beam has proven a powerful new model to help disadvantaged people getinto stable work and support themselves. Beam is currently focused on helping homeless people in London. In Beam's first year, Beam won the London Homelessness Award and 'Best use of Technology'​ in homelessness. Beyond homelessness, Beam was recognised by The FT as one of the top 100 most innovative organisations in Europe and was named by The Guardian as one of the most important social innovations of 2018. In Beam's second year, we won Best Tech for Good in Europe and our founder and CEO, Alex Stephany, won an award for Best Social Entrepreneur in the UK. A breakthrough innovation in social mobility, Beam has been covered widely, including by the BBC, The Times, The FT, The Independent, Evening Standard, Sky, Time Out and others. As for the growing social impact we're making? Check out our Live Data page which transparently shows over 50 live data points: https://beam.org/transparencyAny questions? Get in touch any time on hello@beam.org

4 contacts available at Beam.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Stephany | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-stephany |
| Russell Smith | Supporter | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/russell-smith-42b9 |
| Catherine Wines | Supporter | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catherine-wines |
| Julian Keenaghan | Director of Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julian-keenaghan |

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## FAQ

### What does Russell Smith invest in?

Russell Smith invests primarily in Payments, Financial Services and iOS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Russell Smith's check size?

Russell Smith typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$10M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Russell Smith participates in.

### When did Russell Smith last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Russell Smith closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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