Bradley Twohig

Co-Founder | Managing Partner at Smash Capital

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 38 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
38
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17y
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Jan 2025
MagicSchool is the leading generative AI platform in education, empowering over 7 million educators with AI-driven support to reduce burnout and enhance efficiency. Committed to responsible and safe AI use, we create transformative learning experiences that equip students with the skills they need for the future of work.
early stageEducation
Board Member
Sep 2024
Read AI is an AI copilot for wherever you work, making your meetings, emails, and messages more productive with summaries, content discovery, and recommendations.
Board Member
Jul 2024
𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝘀𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱. 𝗜𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲. We exist to give the world a chance to show up again—to help people become the friend they wish they had, and through that practice, create the friendships theyve been searching for. You might know us as 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴. But what were building is 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗮𝗽𝗽—supporting the entire journey from that first brave hello to the repeated moments that turn strangers into chosen family. We create infrastructure for real connection: ways to signal mutual interest, invite people back, and weave new faces into existing circles. We dont optimize away awkwardness or pretend friendship is effortless. We create conditions where people remember that every deep friendship started with two strangers choosing to show up—and then showing up again. From 4 to 90+ employees in 18 months. 150k users monthly. €18M ARR after 20 months. 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲.
Board Member
Jul 2024
Reusing is the future. Ovoko is working to help accelerate the transition to reusing. We are building to enable a circular economy for used parts. How are we doing it? Our teams are developing the foundations of software, marketplaces, and shipping and analytics solutions. These will combine to create the digital infrastructure so that used parts can be more quickly and easily united with happy buyers or recycled. Our journey began on an excel file in 2016 in a small town in Lithuania. Today, Ovoko has united millions of used parts with satisfied buyers across Europe.
Investor
Jan 2024
ElevenLabs is transforming human-technology interaction with AI research and products. ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale. ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages. ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models. These platforms are powered by our leading AI research. We developed the first human-like AI voice model, then expanded into dubbing, transcription, music, sound effects, and speech-to-speech. We serve millions of users and thousands of businesses from the fastest growing startups to the largest enterprises like Harvey, Deutsche Telekom and Meta.
Investor
2024
Sleepers mission is to connect people over sports. Were building a digital playground for sports fans and their friends to hang out together. We believe what truly makes sports so special in our lives is its ability to strengthen bonds between the people we care about. Some of our fondest memories include super bowl parties with friends, streaming the world cup with co-workers, and enjoying Christmas NBA games with family. Our products enable you and your friends to enjoy sports together in a fun and social way, creating bonds that can span a lifetime. ****Sleeper has been made aware of a recruiting scam falsely using the Sleeper brand name and that of of our HR Manager, Amanda Lopez, in an effort to exploit job seekers. Scammers are exploiting the Sleeper logo and utilizing fraudulent email addresses to deceive individuals into believing they are applying for or being offered positions at Sleeper. These scams can be highly convincing, with fraudsters often requesting personal information or offering fake job opportunities in exchange for sensitive personal and financial details. Please note, Sleeper will never ask applicants for money or extend a job offer without conducting a verbal or video interview via Google Meet. If you are interested in applying for a job at Sleeper, please visit our website at Sleeper.com or https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sleeper. If you suspect youve encountered a recruiting scam, please report it to the FTC at this link: https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams ****
Board Member
2023
Lanes & Planes is a leading SaaS provider specializing in efficient B2B solutions for corporate travel. Dedicated to delivering innovative solutions, Lanes & Planes simplifies and enhances the corporate travel experience while maintaining a focus on growth and efficiency.
Board Member
2022
Three million people now have access to the Stream platform through 2,000 brands - across the U.K., Europe and U.S. - making us the worlds most widely-used financial wellbeing provider. Offered through major employers like Bupa, Asda, New Balance, Hilton, Burger King and the NHS, our platform helps our members to build brighter financial futures. Stream Platforms, Ltd is a B corporation, built with a social charter to provide fair financial services.
Board Observer
2022
Fever is the leading global live-entertainment discovery tech platform with a clear mission: to democratize access to culture and entertainment. Fever has developed a proprietary technology that inspires its global community of over 125M people through personalized and curated experiences in their local city whilst empowering entertainment and event creators to reach new audiences and enhance their experiences. Some successful examples include the “Candlelight Concert Series” attended by over 3 million guests last year, the Los Angeles-based “Stranger Things: The Drive-Into Experience” co-produced with Netflix, or the “Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience” winner of USA Todays 10 Best Readers Choice award. The company, present in over 100 major cities across the globe, is backed by leading investors such as Goldman Sachs, Alignment Growth (growth equity investor in global entertainment and consumer tech, led by former Warner Bros and Time Warner), Goodwater Capital (the largest dedicated consumer technology platform globally), Smash Capital (a late-stage venture capital firm led by former Disney and growth equity investors, backer of Epic Games), Eurazeo, Vitruvian Partners and Atresmedia among others. To pursue our objective, we are looking for bar-raisers who want to work hard, have fun, and make history with us.
Board Observer
2021
Matillion is the productivity platform for data teams. Matillion makes data work more productive by empowering the entire data team – coders and non-coders alike – to move, transform, and orchestrate data pipelines faster.
Investor
Jan 2020
Founded in 2015 and built in Europe, Personio is the Intelligent HR Platform championing every side of HRs evolution. As work becomes more complex and HRs role more strategic, most technology still treats HR as one-dimensional. We see it differently. Trusted by over 16,000 customers managing more than 1 million employees globally, Personio is built for everything HR has become. We support organisations of all sizes and industries, but specialise in global companies with between 200 and 5000 employees. We connect Core HR, Talent, and Payroll in one intelligent platform. Our platform eliminates manual work through automation, adapts to multi-entity complexity with flexible workflows, and transforms people data into strategic insights with AI. Personio is built with deep European expertise, and were the only HR platform with native payroll in Germany—Europes most complex market. Plus we offer comprehensive apps to manage the entire employee lifecycle including recruiting, performance, compensation, and feedback. From implementation to everyday support, Personio is your partner from day one. We focus on the real challenges of HR and build with purposeful AI that amplifies the power of HR teams. We help organisations around the world unlock the power of their people.
Board Member
Nov 2019
NS8 safeguards online businesses against advertising fraud, transaction fraud, and poor site performance. NS8 protects against threats and offers better insight into real customers by utilizing behavioral analytics, real-time user scoring, and global monitoring. Available through easy-to-install plugins on multiple platforms, our solutions empower merchants to quickly minimize risk, better automate fraud management and realize savings throughout the customer lifecycle.
Board Observer
Oct 2019
Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale, enabling organizations to see, understand, and act on all their disparate data so they can move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 25 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,400+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Follow Grafana Labs on LinkedIn and Twitter or visit grafana.com.
Investor
2018
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.
Board Member
Aug 2017
Key Data Systems is an industry leader in educational psychometric services, standards-based assessment, and developer of the Inspect® item bank. Our team and our company are all in for students. This commitment stems from our passion for providing educators with formative assessment tools, resources, and professional development on the use of assessment to guide instruction. Key Data Systems is part of the Illuminate Education family of businesses. Inspect® is a formative assessment item bank and suite of over 500 pre-built assessments, providing educators a truly comprehensive assessment solution. This solution offers an industry-leading combination of rigor, innovation, and integrity. The result is ease of assessment delivery that provides specific feedback to teachers so they can quickly inform instruction to increase student learning.
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2025
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Jan 2025
MagicSchool is the leading generative AI platform in education, empowering over 7 million educators with AI-driven support to reduce burnout and enhance efficiency. Committed to responsible and safe AI use, we create transformative learning experiences that equip students with the skills they need for the future of work.
early stageEducation
2024
Board Member
Sep 2024
Read AI is an AI copilot for wherever you work, making your meetings, emails, and messages more productive with summaries, content discovery, and recommendations.
Board Member
Jul 2024
𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝘀𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱. 𝗜𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲. We exist to give the world a chance to show up again—to help people become the friend they wish they had, and through that practice, create the friendships theyve been searching for. You might know us as 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴. But what were building is 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗮𝗽𝗽—supporting the entire journey from that first brave hello to the repeated moments that turn strangers into chosen family. We create infrastructure for real connection: ways to signal mutual interest, invite people back, and weave new faces into existing circles. We dont optimize away awkwardness or pretend friendship is effortless. We create conditions where people remember that every deep friendship started with two strangers choosing to show up—and then showing up again. From 4 to 90+ employees in 18 months. 150k users monthly. €18M ARR after 20 months. 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲.
Board Member
Jul 2024
Reusing is the future. Ovoko is working to help accelerate the transition to reusing. We are building to enable a circular economy for used parts. How are we doing it? Our teams are developing the foundations of software, marketplaces, and shipping and analytics solutions. These will combine to create the digital infrastructure so that used parts can be more quickly and easily united with happy buyers or recycled. Our journey began on an excel file in 2016 in a small town in Lithuania. Today, Ovoko has united millions of used parts with satisfied buyers across Europe.
Investor
Jan 2024
ElevenLabs is transforming human-technology interaction with AI research and products. ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale. ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages. ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models. These platforms are powered by our leading AI research. We developed the first human-like AI voice model, then expanded into dubbing, transcription, music, sound effects, and speech-to-speech. We serve millions of users and thousands of businesses from the fastest growing startups to the largest enterprises like Harvey, Deutsche Telekom and Meta.
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