# Will Smith

> Will Smith is a seed investor at Octave backing Software and Machine Learning. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Octave](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/octave-183e)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willtsmith
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/wtswill

Will Smith is a seed investor at Octave in Palo Alto focused on Software and Machine Learning. Will Smith is the co-founder of Euclid and currently serves as the company’s Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer. Will’s passion for data science drives the company’s long term-strategy and product vision, helping brands unlock the business value of their physical locations. Will’s roots in retail run deep – his grandfather was aninnovator in shopping center development and the chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers. In 2013, Will played a leading role in defining the Mobile Location Analytics Code of Conduct with Senator Chuck Schumer and other leading location analytics companies. As a privacy expert, Will spearheads Euclid’s privacy initiatives and serves on the Advisory Board of the Future of Privacy Forum. Before Euclid, Will worked as an analyst at Thomas Weisel Partners and graduated from Stanford University.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 39% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 17% |
| Database | 2 | 11% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 17% |
| Series A | 3 | 17% |
| Series B | 3 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 72% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Springtail | Springtail is a cloud service that horizontally scales the performance of your existing PostgreSQL database. Founded in 2023, Springtail is on a mission to free developers from the complexities of managing scalable data infrastructure. The company is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and backed by Google's early-stage fund, Gradient. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Apr 09, 2025 | https://www.springtail.io |
| Grafbase | Grafbase provides secure self-hosted deployment options, unmatched query speed, advanced governance, and unified data access for reliable, enterprise-grade API management. Grafbase was founded in 2021 and is located at San Francisco, California. | $5M | Seed | Oct 25, 2022 | https://grafbase.com |
| Hashboard | Hashboard is a business intelligence (BI) product built for data engineers to do their best work and easily spread the data love to their entire organizations. Define metrics on your data warehouse and let your whole team search, explore and find insights that drive your business. | $7M | Seed | Mar 30, 2022 | https://hashboard.com/ |
| Collimator | Collimator is a developer of modern cloud-native engineering modeling and simulation software to manage communications and control systems. Its platform leverages machine learning to provide product analysis and optimization of complex systems across a wide range of applications such as autonomous electric vehicles that allow engineers to conductsimulations of a workflow in an efficient manner.The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. | $5M | Seed | Feb 01, 2022 | https://www.collimator.ai/ |
| Cascade | Cascade helps operations teams automate their data workflows. | $5.3M | Seed | Nov 09, 2021 | https://www.cascade.io/ |
| Tonic.ai | Tonic.ai transforms data for software and AI developers to get them the usable data they need to build applications and train AI models effectively. Through industry-leading data de-identification, synthesis, and subsetting, our products enable on-demand access to safe, high-fidelity versions of structured, semi-structured, and free-text data forsoftware testing and AI model training. Advance AI initiatives, accelerate your engineering velocity, and ship better products, all while safeguarding data privacy. | $35M | Series B | Sep 29, 2021 | https://www.tonic.ai/ |
| RunX | RunX creates an automated Infra stack for developers to deploy cloud infrastructure. | $4.1M | Seed | Sep 28, 2021 | https://www.runx.dev/ |
| Grafbase | Grafbase provides secure self-hosted deployment options, unmatched query speed, advanced governance, and unified data access for reliable, enterprise-grade API management. Grafbase was founded in 2021 and is located at San Francisco, California. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Sep 13, 2021 | https://grafbase.com |
| Nomad Data | NoMad Data develops a data management platform that provides differentiated data to help businesses make better decisions. It connects businesses to a world of data for better decision making, marketing, storytelling, customer visibility, and more. The company was founded in 2020 and based in New York. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Jun 07, 2021 | https://www.nomad-data.com/ |
| Transform | Transform is the first centralized ‘metrics store’ that empowers data analysts to deliver accurate, timely, confident, and fast insights. The metrics store we’ve built is a centralized repository that enables metrics definitions in code, supports life-cycle management, and makes data accessible to every other tool in the modern data stack. We notonly make data trustworthy, but we also uncover relevant insights and context so that all teams can stay on the same page and make the best decisions possible. | $20M | Series A | Jan 19, 2021 | http://www.transform.co |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Village Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/village-global-2) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Heavybit](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heavybit-industries) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Flex Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flex-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GGV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ggv-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Octave

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

A founder-centric early-stage fund investing in enterprise data opportunities.

1 contacts available at Octave.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Will Smith | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/will-smith-6 |

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## FAQ

### What does Will Smith invest in?

Will Smith invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Will Smith?

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### When did Will Smith last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Will Smith closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 18 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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