Jimi Smoot

We help mid market companies build AI teammates with open models.

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2022
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Jul 2022
Greetings and sun salutations! Were Summer, a dedicated team on a mission to make data fun, accessible, and easy to use. Collectively, we have years of experience building data infrastructure in gaming, telecom, and decentralized systems. Now weve come together to build something fresh and exciting for the world of data. As a company, were guided by a set of core values that keep us cool, colorful, and full of energy, even during the most sweltering design and development sessions. Our values are: The harder the engineering, the more excited we get. Magic happens when design and engineering are best friends We make room to be creative and explore People first, always. Enough about us, lets talk about you. Were expanding our team and are looking for sun-sational individuals to collaborate and grow with. If youre hot for data and have an unquenchable thirst for design, we want to hear from you! Follow us here or on twitter, https://twitter.com/summer_io!
Investor
Sep 2021
At Sentiyen, we build GPT-based AI assistants that are trained on your content and enable your audience to get the answers they need 24 hours a day. We allow creators and businesses scale themselves to unlimited 1:1 conversations with potential customers, which helps increase revenue, reduce spend, and improve customer satisfaction.
Adjam Board Member
Jan 2011
The goal of ThinkLA is to connect, educate, and inspire the Los Angeles advertising, marketing, and media community. We promote and support world-class collaboration, innovation, and creativity among these industries in Los Angeles. As the preeminent nonprofit association, ThinkLA serves its constituents through initiatives that leverage members​ combined resources to accomplish objectives greater than each could reasonably expect to accomplish on their own. To that end, ThinkLA seeks to enhance the business objectives of its members via: · Elevating the image, identity and awareness of the Los Angeles communities among national marketers to attract more business, greater talent, and more spending to the market · Establishing and advocating industry standards and ideals, including philanthropic support of related charitable endeavors · Providing comprehensive educational and training support with an emphasis on diverse multi-cultural representation and improved knowledge of new, emerging media and marketing disciplines · Building pride and alignment throughout the various communities, resulting in enhanced affiliation and fellowship among like colleagues · Enabling members to network and build strong business and personal relationships
Experience · 8 entries
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2025
Founder
Jan 2025
Your team is already using AI. ChatGPT here, Claude there, Notion AI somewhere else. Nobody owns it. Nobody can see it. And when someone leaves, it goes with them. Assist is the governed AI Operating System that turns scattered AI activity into shared company infrastructure — built by your team, owned by your org, governed from day one.
2024
Founder
Jun 2024
Realistic, Repeatable Characters for Immersive Training. Practical GenAI that will simplify your workflows, cut your costs, and improve learning outcomes.
early stageMedia Production
2022
Owner
Aug 2022
Software that collects prospects from news articles. Identifying contacts and organizations, that you wont find in prospect databases.
Investor
Jul 2022
Greetings and sun salutations! Were Summer, a dedicated team on a mission to make data fun, accessible, and easy to use. Collectively, we have years of experience building data infrastructure in gaming, telecom, and decentralized systems. Now weve come together to build something fresh and exciting for the world of data. As a company, were guided by a set of core values that keep us cool, colorful, and full of energy, even during the most sweltering design and development sessions. Our values are: The harder the engineering, the more excited we get. Magic happens when design and engineering are best friends We make room to be creative and explore People first, always. Enough about us, lets talk about you. Were expanding our team and are looking for sun-sational individuals to collaborate and grow with. If youre hot for data and have an unquenchable thirst for design, we want to hear from you! Follow us here or on twitter, https://twitter.com/summer_io!
2021
Investor
Sep 2021
At Sentiyen, we build GPT-based AI assistants that are trained on your content and enable your audience to get the answers they need 24 hours a day. We allow creators and businesses scale themselves to unlimited 1:1 conversations with potential customers, which helps increase revenue, reduce spend, and improve customer satisfaction.
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