Matt Smith

Investor & Board Member | Founder of Thinkific & Later

📍 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Sep 2025
Durable makes owning a business easier than having a job. We’re building the world’s fastest AI website builder and all-in-one business platform, so anyone can launch online in seconds and grow with powerful AI tools. Over 10 million websites generated. Used by business owners in 100+ countries. Learn more: www.durable.co
Board Member
Jan 2014
About Later (previously Latergramme): Founded as the first-to-market Instagram scheduler in 2014, Later (formerly Latergramme) has grown from a simple Instagram tool to the #1 visual marketing platform for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Now with over 2 million users globally, Later is a member of the Instagram Partner Program. We believe that social media has become a visual experience, and we’ve designed our platform to help you visually plan and schedule your photo and video content. Later helps streamline your social media strategy so you can set yourself up for more sales and success. Our features focus on visual scheduling, media management, marketing and analytics. Here at Later, our goal is to simplify Instagram marketing and make it accessible for all businesses. Subscribe to the Later blog and sign up for our free Instagram marketing courses!
Board Member
Apr 2012
Thinkific is the leading Creator Educator Platform & Ecosystem. An all-in-one platform to help you easily create, market & sell your own online courses.
 We transform lives by helping our Creator Educators to amplify their passion, impact, and abundance. Our mission is to make it simple for entrepreneurs and established businesses – our Creator Educators - to scale and generate revenue by teaching what they know. We’re relied upon every day by the largest and most successful Creator Educators on the planet. With an ecosystem encompassing 50K+ Creator Educators worldwide, and 3k+ Thinkific Partners & Experts, it’s no wonder the largest and most successful Creator Educators on the planet count on Thinkific every day. Sign up for our Talent Community to learn more about new jobs, interview tips, exciting news, what our team is up to, and more: https://thnk.cc/talent-community. Join our team: http://thinkific.com/resources/careers Our product includes: - Thinkific Mobile App and Customizable Branded Mobile App to help you deliver a customized education and community experience to students anywhere, anytime! - A 6-week Accelerator program - Support for countless file types, including video, PDF, audio, HTML, quizzes, surveys, and outside resources such as Typeform, Articulate, Storyline and more, to deliver a media-rich student experience - Full e-commerce and student enrollment/tracking functionality, with comprehensive internal reporting - Robust integrations with industry-leading tools such as Segment.io provides access to data from over 100+ systems - and much more! Sign up now for a free trial at http://www.thinkific.com
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2025
Board Member
Sep 2025
Durable makes owning a business easier than having a job. We’re building the world’s fastest AI website builder and all-in-one business platform, so anyone can launch online in seconds and grow with powerful AI tools. Over 10 million websites generated. Used by business owners in 100+ countries. Learn more: www.durable.co
2014
COO & Founder
Jan 2014
About Later (previously Latergramme): Founded as the first-to-market Instagram scheduler in 2014, Later (formerly Latergramme) has grown from a simple Instagram tool to the #1 visual marketing platform for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Now with over 2 million users globally, Later is a member of the Instagram Partner Program. We believe that social media has become a visual experience, and we’ve designed our platform to help you visually plan and schedule your photo and video content. Later helps streamline your social media strategy so you can set yourself up for more sales and success. Our features focus on visual scheduling, media management, marketing and analytics. Here at Later, our goal is to simplify Instagram marketing and make it accessible for all businesses. Subscribe to the Later blog and sign up for our free Instagram marketing courses!
Board Member
Jan 2014
About Later (previously Latergramme): Founded as the first-to-market Instagram scheduler in 2014, Later (formerly Latergramme) has grown from a simple Instagram tool to the #1 visual marketing platform for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Now with over 2 million users globally, Later is a member of the Instagram Partner Program. We believe that social media has become a visual experience, and we’ve designed our platform to help you visually plan and schedule your photo and video content. Later helps streamline your social media strategy so you can set yourself up for more sales and success. Our features focus on visual scheduling, media management, marketing and analytics. Here at Later, our goal is to simplify Instagram marketing and make it accessible for all businesses. Subscribe to the Later blog and sign up for our free Instagram marketing courses!
2012
Board Member
Apr 2012
Thinkific is the leading Creator Educator Platform & Ecosystem. An all-in-one platform to help you easily create, market & sell your own online courses.
 We transform lives by helping our Creator Educators to amplify their passion, impact, and abundance. Our mission is to make it simple for entrepreneurs and established businesses – our Creator Educators - to scale and generate revenue by teaching what they know. We’re relied upon every day by the largest and most successful Creator Educators on the planet. With an ecosystem encompassing 50K+ Creator Educators worldwide, and 3k+ Thinkific Partners & Experts, it’s no wonder the largest and most successful Creator Educators on the planet count on Thinkific every day. Sign up for our Talent Community to learn more about new jobs, interview tips, exciting news, what our team is up to, and more: https://thnk.cc/talent-community. Join our team: http://thinkific.com/resources/careers Our product includes: - Thinkific Mobile App and Customizable Branded Mobile App to help you deliver a customized education and community experience to students anywhere, anytime! - A 6-week Accelerator program - Support for countless file types, including video, PDF, audio, HTML, quizzes, surveys, and outside resources such as Typeform, Articulate, Storyline and more, to deliver a media-rich student experience - Full e-commerce and student enrollment/tracking functionality, with comprehensive internal reporting - Robust integrations with industry-leading tools such as Segment.io provides access to data from over 100+ systems - and much more! Sign up now for a free trial at http://www.thinkific.com
Co-Founder
Apr 2012
Thinkific is the leading Creator Educator Platform & Ecosystem. An all-in-one platform to help you easily create, market & sell your own online courses.
 We transform lives by helping our Creator Educators to amplify their passion, impact, and abundance. Our mission is to make it simple for entrepreneurs and established businesses – our Creator Educators - to scale and generate revenue by teaching what they know. We’re relied upon every day by the largest and most successful Creator Educators on the planet. With an ecosystem encompassing 50K+ Creator Educators worldwide, and 3k+ Thinkific Partners & Experts, it’s no wonder the largest and most successful Creator Educators on the planet count on Thinkific every day. Sign up for our Talent Community to learn more about new jobs, interview tips, exciting news, what our team is up to, and more: https://thnk.cc/talent-community. Join our team: http://thinkific.com/resources/careers Our product includes: - Thinkific Mobile App and Customizable Branded Mobile App to help you deliver a customized education and community experience to students anywhere, anytime! - A 6-week Accelerator program - Support for countless file types, including video, PDF, audio, HTML, quizzes, surveys, and outside resources such as Typeform, Articulate, Storyline and more, to deliver a media-rich student experience - Full e-commerce and student enrollment/tracking functionality, with comprehensive internal reporting - Robust integrations with industry-leading tools such as Segment.io provides access to data from over 100+ systems - and much more! Sign up now for a free trial at http://www.thinkific.com
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