Current Firm
Coughdrop Capital
Investments
2+ companies
Focus
Enterprise, Fintech
About Stu Smith
Stu Smith brings 20 years of creator and entertainment operating experience to venture investing, including scaling Red Light Management, leading partnerships at Songkick, building Teespring's $50M+ entertainment business, and senior roles at Omaze and WarnerMedia's Fullscreen, while also serving as co-founder and COO of audio startup Racket. He started investing with $10K personal checks alongside his brother, often making personal sacrifices like selling Bitcoin, and built their track record through one deal per year before raising outside capital—an unusually slow approach that led to early investments in companies like Lattice and Superhuman through deep operator relationships and power user behavior.