# Zachary Smith

> Zachary Smith is a seed investor at Equinix backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Equinix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equinix)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/zsmith
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/zsmithnyc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zsmith928

Zachary Smith is a seed investor at Equinix in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Zac is a passionate business builder with a focus on infrastructure services, including cloud platforms, hosting services, automation software and financial transaction clearing. Prior to Packet, Zachary was an early employee and key member of the management team at Voxel, a NY-based cloud hosting company with a focus on infrastructure automationthat sold to Internap (NASDAQ: INAP) in 2011 for 35MM. Zac is a closet musician, having attended Juilliard as a double bass major and promptly switching to software-driven infrastructure after graduation. He lives is NYC with his wife and two young boys.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.9M–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $650k–$1.6M |
| Series A | $7.7M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 38% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 23% |
| Non Profit | 2 | 15% |
| Innovation Management | 2 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 15% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 46% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 31% |
| Series A | 2 | 15% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 69% |
| France | 2 | 15% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Manifold Labs | Manifold Labs is a decentralized AI infrastructure company. | $10.5M | Series A | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| Kestra Technologies | Kestra is an infinitely scalable orchestration and scheduling platform, creating, running, scheduling, and monitoring millions of complex pipelines. | $7.7M | Series A | Sep 23, 2024 |  |
| Kestra Technologies | Kestra is an infinitely scalable orchestration and scheduling platform, creating, running, scheduling, and monitoring millions of complex pipelines. | $8M | Seed | Sep 23, 2024 |  |
| Koyeb | Koyeb is a global, high-performance serverless platform for running AI applications across CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators.We give teams a unified way to run inference, securely execute AI-generated and untrusted code in sandboxes, and deploy AI-native workloads — from APIs and web services to databases. No ops, servers, or infrastructuremanagement.Access fast and reliable infrastructure in minutes. | $7M | Seed | Nov 02, 2023 |  |
| Qubitro | Qubitro collects device data from multiple networks and provides a complete toolkit to activate data in your applications. | $675K | Angel | Mar 03, 2023 |  |
| Mixpeek | Semantic and visual search, clustering, analysis and recommendation infrastructure across video, images and text in just 2 API calls | $650K | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| MergeStat | MergeStat enables open-source, operational analytics for software engineering teams. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Dec 06, 2022 |  |
| Pace | Pace enables B2B software companies everywhere to take advantage of the efficiency of product-led growth with the efficacy of enterprise sales. Pace is proud to be backed by Work-Bench, AlleyCorp, and go-to-market leaders from the most respected enterprise software companies. Pace was established in 2021 in New York, United States. | $5M | Seed | Aug 24, 2022 |  |
| Pursuit | Pursuit is a social impact organization that creates transformation where it’s needed most. Through their four-year intensive program, they train adults with the most need and potential to get their first tech jobs, advance in their careers, and become the next generation of leaders in tech. Their graduates are hired by leading companies likePinterest, Kickstarter, LinkedIn, BlackRock, and JPMorgan Chase, and increase their average annual salaries from $18,000 to over $85,000.In addition to providing training and career support, Pursuit’s innovative operating model combines partnerships with tech companies to retrain their blue-collar workers and social impact investments to re-envision funding for outcomes-based organizations. By connecting talent with opportunity, Pursuit empowers graduates to bring change to their families, tech companies, and communities across the nation. | $10M | Seed | Mar 31, 2022 |  |
| Pursuit | Pursuit is a social impact organization that creates transformation where it’s needed most. Through our four-year intensive program, we train adults with the most need and potential to get their first tech jobs, advance in their careers, and become the next generation of leaders in tech. Their graduates are hired by leading companies likePinterest, Kickstarter, LinkedIn, BlackRock, and JPMorgan Chase, and increase their average annual salaries from $18,000 to over $85,000.In addition to providing training and career support, our innovative operating model combines partnerships with tech companies to retrain their blue-collar workers and social impact investments to re-envision funding for outcomes-based organizations. By connecting talent with opportunity, Pursuit empowers graduates to bring change to their families, tech companies, and communities across the nation. | $10M | Seed | Mar 31, 2022 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Isai](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/isai) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Work-Bench](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/work-bench) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alphadyne Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alphadyne-asset-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Blue Earth Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-earth-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ETF@JFFLabs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/etf-jfflabs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fidelity Charitable](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fidelity-charitable) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Equinix

VC Fund · Redwood City, United States

Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations. It offers a software application platform designed for digital businesses that help its users to connect to their customers, employees, and partners. The company was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Redwood City, California.

5 contacts available at Equinix.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sara Baack | CPO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sara-baack |
| Scott Crenshaw | Executive Vice President & General Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-crenshaw |
| Zachary Smith | Managing Director, Bare Metal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zachary-smith |
| Bill Long | Vice President- Interconnection Services | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-long |
| Eugene Bergen Henegouwen | President Equinix EMEA | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eugene-bergen-henegouwen |

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## FAQ

### What does Zachary Smith invest in?

Zachary Smith invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Non Profit startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 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 Zachary Smith's check size?

Zachary Smith typically joins rounds of $3.9M–$10M at Seed, $650k–$1.6M at Pre-Seed and $7.7M–$11M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Zachary Smith participates in.

### When did Zachary Smith last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Zachary Smith closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 13 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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