Stephen Smith

Communications | Investor Relations | Strategy | MBA

📍 United Arab Emirates🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2022
VC🌍 United Arab Emirates
3
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5y
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Portfolio

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Investor Rep
Jul 2022
Food & beverage buyers and suppliers use Upstock to automatically manage all their wholesale orders, payments and logistics. https://www.upstock.app/ Made by the creators of Xero, Upstock automates and digitises wholesale transactions currently handled with scraps of paper, texts, emails, and phone calls. • Best selection of top quality suppliers • Fast, reliable orders every time • One click invoicing, accounting & inventory • Buyers find new suppliers, suppliers win new customers • Real time order status and delivery notifications • Cut costs, eliminate waste & reduce stress Upstock has over + 1,000 FMCG food & beverage suppliers + 30,000 cafes, restaurants, bars, groceries, retailers, supermarkets + 100,000 products Why do people love Upstock? Just ask some of our customers… ✶ Market Lane Coffee, 10 locations “Upstock is built to a really high quality and processing time has been cut in half.” ✶ Prana Chai “Upstock stood out as the obvious choice. Their team truly listened and ‘got us’. Customers are telling us they want Upstock.” ✶ Mojo Coffee, 34 locations “Ever since weve started using Upstock we cant live without it! Its made things run so much faster and smoother for all our cafes. When you add it all up, the time and cost savings have been exponential.” ✶ Best Ugly Bagels, 7 locations “It’s given staff complete visibility of whats been ordered which has had a big improvement on staff relationships." ✶ Grey Roasting Co. “With Upstock, I dont need to do paperwork any more. My invoicing is automatic and I’m getting paid faster. Upstock just does it all for me – I cant imagine life without it.” ✶ Plant Projects “I view Upstock as the future of distribution. Having the ability for people to trial our product through Upstock without having to send a rep in, that saves days, even weeks.” ✶ Grater Goods “Automated sales and invoicing has been a big game-changer. Its been wonderful to free up my time to focus on our expansion.”
Investor
May 2021
Flying Kiwi Angels are active investors who bring know-how, connections and funding to NZ startups. Operating via a reverse sidecar model they can complete DD swiftly and will actively support successful applicants to raise all necessary funding by syndication with other angel groups or funds. Once fully funded they continue working with investee companies to ensure success. See also our newsletter fka.nz/news 🗞️
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2022
Investor Rep
Jul 2022
Food & beverage buyers and suppliers use Upstock to automatically manage all their wholesale orders, payments and logistics. https://www.upstock.app/ Made by the creators of Xero, Upstock automates and digitises wholesale transactions currently handled with scraps of paper, texts, emails, and phone calls. • Best selection of top quality suppliers • Fast, reliable orders every time • One click invoicing, accounting & inventory • Buyers find new suppliers, suppliers win new customers • Real time order status and delivery notifications • Cut costs, eliminate waste & reduce stress Upstock has over + 1,000 FMCG food & beverage suppliers + 30,000 cafes, restaurants, bars, groceries, retailers, supermarkets + 100,000 products Why do people love Upstock? Just ask some of our customers… ✶ Market Lane Coffee, 10 locations “Upstock is built to a really high quality and processing time has been cut in half.” ✶ Prana Chai “Upstock stood out as the obvious choice. Their team truly listened and ‘got us’. Customers are telling us they want Upstock.” ✶ Mojo Coffee, 34 locations “Ever since weve started using Upstock we cant live without it! Its made things run so much faster and smoother for all our cafes. When you add it all up, the time and cost savings have been exponential.” ✶ Best Ugly Bagels, 7 locations “It’s given staff complete visibility of whats been ordered which has had a big improvement on staff relationships." ✶ Grey Roasting Co. “With Upstock, I dont need to do paperwork any more. My invoicing is automatic and I’m getting paid faster. Upstock just does it all for me – I cant imagine life without it.” ✶ Plant Projects “I view Upstock as the future of distribution. Having the ability for people to trial our product through Upstock without having to send a rep in, that saves days, even weeks.” ✶ Grater Goods “Automated sales and invoicing has been a big game-changer. Its been wonderful to free up my time to focus on our expansion.”
2021
Investor
Dec 2021
Enterprise Angels offers a unique model of early stage investing in New Zealand connecting early stage companies with business angels to maximise success. We believe that growing innovative, socially and environmentally responsible companies is the key to ensuring people, communities, businesses, the environment, and the economy thrive. Enterprise Angels has a professional management team, efficient processes and rigorous due diligence to mitigate investor risk. We consider our model as ‘best practice’ for investing in early stage companies, which is inherently risky. While investment funds are always important, we regard the skills and experience our management team and business angels bring to the investee companies as being even more important. Through our team, members and partners we aim to add real value as well as capital to portfolio companies. Enterprise Angels members make individual investment decisions but do so together drawing on each other’s experience and expertise. This approach increases the returns from and success of investments. Our objective is to connect experienced investors with entrepreneurs and innovators. Enterprise Angels members will consider investing in businesses from all industry sectors and at any stage of growth, from seed to post-revenue. However we invest most actively in things we can ‘kick’ – innovative businesses in the agriculture, dairy, horticulture, engineering, food and clean tech industries. The experience we can draw from our member pool is vast and crucial in helping many early stage businesses and concepts grow to their full potential. Enterprise Angels is a member of the Angel Association of New Zealand (AANZ), a network of more than a dozen angel groups and funds throughout the country.
Investor
May 2021
Flying Kiwi Angels are active investors who bring know-how, connections and funding to NZ startups. Operating via a reverse sidecar model they can complete DD swiftly and will actively support successful applicants to raise all necessary funding by syndication with other angel groups or funds. Once fully funded they continue working with investee companies to ensure success. See also our newsletter fka.nz/news 🗞️
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2021–2022 · 3 investments
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