Stu Smith
COO @ Racket
Los Angeles, United States
Stu Smith is a seed investor at Racket in Los Angeles focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Stu is General Partner at Coughdrop Capital and Vice President at Fullscreen (acquired by AT&T/WarnerMedia in 2018), where he runs the Creator Labs, Public Figures, and Creator Partnerships business units. He focuses on fulfilling Fullscreen’s promise of being the most strategic social content company in the world.Stu has spent themajority of his career driving innovation in the entertainment and media space. With nearly 20 years of experience, Stu led the North American launch of CrowdSurge (later merged with Songkick) and helped scale Red Light Management, the largest music management company in the world. Since then, he has held executive positions leading the revenue organizations at Teespring and Omaze.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Stu Smith invests in
Stages Stu Smith invests in
Countries Stu Smith invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (40%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (40%)
- Audio 1 (20%)
- Mobile 1 (20%)
- Banking 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (60%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (20%)
- Series A 1 (20%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Hostie
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Hostie is an AI-first customer experience platform designed for restaurants, automating guest inquiries, reservations, and takeout orders. We proudly partner with some of the world’s top restaurants, including Flour + Water, Nisei, Slanted Door, ILIS, and more. Co-founded by a product designer-turned-restaurateur and an AI engineer, Hostie blendshospitality expertise with cutting-edge technology to enhance restaurant operations. | $12M / Series A / Jul 08, 2026 | |
howie
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howie an email-based scheduling assistant, uses artificial intelligence to automate the scheduling and rescheduling of your meetings. | $6M / Seed / Sep 22, 2025 | |
Kobalt Labs
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Kobalt Labs provides an AI copilot for risk and compliance teams at financial institutions. | Seed / Oct 01, 2023 | |
Racket
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Let's make a racket. | Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2021 | |
Zaraz
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Sweeps makes any website 40% faster with a single line of code, by optimizing how it loads third-party tools. This results in x2 conversion rates and better SEO rankings. Sweeps' third-party manager enhances web performance metrics across all industries: ecommerce, publishing, gaming, b2b and more. With its innovative web infrastructurecompanies can easily integrate all types of third-parties, such as data & analytics tools, marketing technologies, CRM, advertisement technologies, widgets, and more, without slowing down their websites. | $2M / Seed / Jun 01, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About Racket
Let's make a racket.
Racket Contacts
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Stu Smith
COO
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Matthew Guay
Founding Editor
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Sarah Zhang
Front-End Developer
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What does Stu Smith invest in?
Stu Smith invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Audio startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 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 Stu Smith last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Stu Smith closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 5 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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