Mike Smith
General Partner at Footwork
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & General Partner
2021 - Current
Footwork is an early-stage focused venture capital firm. We lead and co-lead Series A and Seed rounds, in companies with early signs of product-market fit. We focus on consumer technology and the consumerization of enterprise technology. We're inspired by founders, and wake up every day excited to get to work with teams building the next generation of category-defining companies. Our equal partnership combines world-class investing and operating experience.
Footwork is an early-stage focused venture capital firm.
Series A Lead, Board Member
2024
GPTZero develops an AI detection platform that discerns the generated content as AI produced or human written.
Raised $13,500,000.00 from Altman Capital, Reach Capital, Neo, Footwork and Uncork Capital.
Series A Co-Lead, Board Observer
2024
Investor
2024
Watershed serves as an enterprise climate platform utilized by companies to assess, report, and address their carbon emissions.
Raised $239,000,000.00 from Galvanize Climate Solutions, Greenoaks, Emerson Collective, Elad Gil, Kleiner Perkins, Neo and Sequoia Capital.
Series Seed Lead, Board Member
2023
WindBorne collects atmospheric data using smart weather balloons for weather forecasting, climate research, and environmental monitoring.
Raised $20,999,997.00 from Convective Capital, Pear VC, Footwork and Khosla Ventures.
Series Seed Lead, Board Observer
2023
ReflexAI provides organizations with tools that transform how they train, develop, and empower their frontline teams.
Raised $12,077,582.00 from 645 Ventures, Emerson Collective, Footwork, Gaingels and Alt Capital.
Series Seed Lead
2022
Series A Lead, Board Member
2022
Series A Lead, Board Member
2022
Series Seed Lead, Board Member
2021
Cradlewise offers a smart cradle with responsive rocking and integrated contactless baby monitoring.
Raised $7,000,000.00 from Carya Venture Partners, Dilip Goswami, Sonny Vu, Footwork, CRV, Jeremy Cai, Bossanova Investimentos, SOSV, Better Capital and Katrina Lake.