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Ty Smith

Limited Partner at Prime Set II

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Ty Smith is a Principal Engineer at Uber, with a background as a Senior Software Engineer at Twitter and Evernote. He has made investments in companies like Wolfia and Leda Health, focusing on SMB Software, SaaS, Consumer Internet, and Enterprise sectors in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ty Smith is a Principal Engineer at Uber, with notable investments in companies like Wolfia and Leda Health. He has a background as a Senior Software Engineer at Twitter and Evernote, focusing on SMB Software, SaaS, Consumer Internet, and Enterprise sectors in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

  • Principal Engineer (Director)

    2016 - Current

    I'm SWE leader in the Platform Engineering organization striving to make developers happier. I provide guidance and oversight to many teams focused on developer productivity and tooling, mobile platforms, Kotlin, open-source and third-party code governance, IDE, AI devx & frameworks, and developer relations to serve Uber's internal and external developers and all of our public customers.

Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.

Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.

  • Expert on Intro | Book a 1:1 Session Now ⬇️

    2024

Intro is an application that connects users over a short video call and gets personalized advice.

Raised $10,000,000.00 from Michael Ovitz, Tiffany Haddish, Firsthand.vc, Andreessen Horowitz, Pure Imagination Brands, David M. Solomon, Seven Seven Six, Nomad Ventures, Rachel Zoe Ventures and TGM ventures.

  • Member

    2024

    Helping shape the future of Kotlin and Kotlin Multiplatform

  • Technical Steering Committee Cochair

    2021

    The Mobile Native Foundation, a subsidiary of the Linux Foundation, provides a place to collaborate on open-source projects and discuss wide-ranging topics to improve processes and technologies for large-scale Android and iOS applications.

  • Limited Partner

    2023

    Investor and Advisor

  • Limited Partner

    2018

    Investor and Advisor

  • Limited Partner

    2015

    Investor and Advisor

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2013 - 2016

    Android Tech Lead for Fabric developer tools and mobile app, acquired by Google

X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.

Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2012 - 2013

    Android app engineer and SDK lead

Evernote is a suite of software and services that allow users to capture, organize, and find information across multiple platforms.

Raised $290,000,000.00 from Nikkei and Kortschak Investments L.P..

  • Cofounder/CTO

    2011 - 2012

    Technical cofounder for Recapp. Full stack (RoR) and iOS engineer for first social sports app on iOS.

RECAPP is a mobile app connecting fans, news sources, and sport experts and provides sports news curated from various sports sources.

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