Justin Smith

Recharge Capital, Managing Partner

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Career Highlights

• Achieved a CPA license in less than four months

• “Cold-called" transition from public accounting to investment banking

• Completed two major deal transactions while spending 3 months sleeping in a hospital to successfully navigate the complex US healthcare system for a cancer patient

• Successfully raised $50M during the pandemic to invest in venture startups while also running the sales organization for a $250M top-line unicorn startup in the advertising technology space

• Incubated Recharge Capital and getting it from Zero- to-One

Failures

• Dropping out of Columbia MBA

• Fat fingering the wrong name in a corporate distribution list and accidentally bringing someone "over the wall"

• Made a couple of investments in founders that I later found out had other side businesses (they all went to zero)

Current Focus

• Emerging venture manager rollup strategy

• Synthetic biology consumer product company launch

• Recharge platform/brand building

Hobbies

Golfing, Traveling outside of the US, Skiing, Soccer (I play on three teams), Wineries, Consistent physical workouts, Eating healthy, Hanz Zimmer

Talk to me about

• Fundraising

• Deal underwriting

• Healthcare

• Emerging markets

• Accounting/tax

• Sales

• Melanoma

• How to maintain a balanced life while flying 100K miles/year

I want to talk to you about

• Personal stories of overcoming real struggles

• Tips on building brand

• Tactics for keeping the mind sharp and the body healthy