Smash Capital

Smash Capital is a growth equity firm that partners with founders building generational consumer internet and software companies. The firm offers capital, strategic guidance, and operational support to high-growth businesses, leveraging deep experience in operating and investing in brands at scale. Their portfolio includes companies in sectors such as fintech, education, productivity, entertainment, and communications.

The firm's investment strategy focuses on emerging growth and later-stage rounds across consumer and software verticals, including fintech, education, productivity, entertainment, and communications. They invest primarily in the U.S., Canada, and select European markets. Smash Capital emphasizes a collaborative, brand-focused investment model, aiming to support companies that can impact millions of users and become category leaders.

Smash Capital's leadership team brings decades of experience investing billions in technology and consumer brands. Prior to founding the firm, the partners have invested over $4 billion in venture capital and over $100 billion in control transactions across decades of shared professional experience, including senior management roles at The Walt Disney Company, Insight Partners, and Live Nation. The firm manages Smash Capital Fund I, a 2022 vintage fund sized at approximately $837 million, which closed in September 2024.

Smash Capital's portfolio includes companies such as ElevenLabs, an AI voice synthesis platform; Coda, a global growth platform for publishers; and Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite and the Unreal Engine. The firm also invests in sectors like fintech, education, productivity, entertainment, and communications, supporting companies that can impact millions of users and become category leaders.

Smash Capital's approach is grounded in decades of shared history at the highest levels of asset management, technology, media, and entertainment. The firm's culture is extremely entrepreneurial, taking advantage of speed, real-time communication, and a flat organizational structure. They emphasize the critical contribution of every member of their core team and encourage everyone to think like an owner. The firm's founding team includes builders and creators who approach founders with enormous respect and a bit of awe at the enormity of what they attempt to do. They work very hard; the founders they back work harder.

Smash Capital's first core competency is in discovering incredible technology companies and the teams behind them. They also know that their lasting mark is in helping those great people and consequential companies succeed over time. That's how their investors grade their performance and how they grade themselves.

Smash Capital's portfolio includes companies such as ElevenLabs, an AI voice synthesis platform; Coda, a global growth platform for publishers; and Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite and the Unreal Engine. The firm also invests in sectors like fintech, education, productivity, entertainment, and communications, supporting companies that can impact millions of users and become category leaders.

Smash Capital's approach is grounded in decades of shared history at the highest levels of asset management, technology, media, and entertainment. The firm's culture is extremely entrepreneurial, taking advantage of speed, real-time communication, and a flat organizational structure. They emphasize the critical contribution of every member of their core team and encourage everyone to think like an owner. The firm's founding team includes builders and creators who approach founders with enormous respect and a bit of awe at the enormity of what they attempt to do. They work very hard; the founders they back work harder.

Smash Capital's first core competency is in discovering incredible technology companies and the teams behind them. They also know that their lasting mark is in helping those great people and consequential companies succeed over time. That's how their investors grade their performance and how they grade themselves.