John Smothers
Partner at Scribble Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - Current
Scribble Ventures is an early-stage technology focused venture firm. Investments include: Checkmate, Poolside, Motherduck, Orb, c/side, Streamline, Wiremock, Alix, Brox, Zingly, nMachine, Mitra Chem, Qpoint.
Scribble Ventures is an early-stage investment fund that focuses on Pre-Seed through Series A.
Board Observer
2024
Partnered at pre-seed
Board Observer
2023
Partnered at seed
Zingly.ai: AI & Digital-First CX Platform unifying customer interactions to drive revenue growth, boost efficiency, and elevate service.
Raised $15,450,000.00 from Firebolt Ventures, Burst Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, Geekdom Fund, Scribble Ventures, Array Ventures, WestWave Capital and Formus Capital.
Investor
2023
Partnered at seed
Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform that offers foundation concepts and infrastructure to write software codes.
Raised $626,000,000.00 from eBay Ventures, PremjiInvest, Motier Ventures, Schroders Capital, BAM Elevate, Inovia Capital, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, HSBC Ventures and Adams Street Partners.
Investor
2023
Partnered at pre-seed and seed
Where qual., quant., and A.I. collide to bring you the future of market research
Investor
2023
Partnered at Series A
Orb is the modern billing infrastructure powering revenue workflows for the next wave of AI and software companies.
Raised $44,100,000.00 from Greylock, South Park Commons, Mayfield Fund, basecase capital, Menlo Ventures, Scribble Ventures and Uncorrelated Ventures.
Investor
2022
Partnered at seed and Series A
Be rewarded for who you are.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from 11:11 Media, Saurabh Gupta, f7 Ventures, Common Metal, Geraldine Chin Moody, Tim Kendall, Paris Hilton, Trevor Neff, Night Capital and Alex Zaccaria.
Co-founder / Owner
2019
The Aurora Group (TAG) is focused on the development and acquisition of fast-casual and quick-service restaurants.
Communications Committee
2021 - 2022
Investor
2021 - 2022
Acrew Capital is a venture capital firm investing in transformative companies and diversifying the cap tables of leading growth companies.