William Smith

Former founder turned investor

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2016𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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Jan 2016
Octave is an early-stage, founder-centric fund investing in enterprise data opportunities. As former founders, we deeply understand the highlights and lowlights of the founder journey. We strive to be close partners of the companies we invest in and take a hands-on approach to helping navigate the ups and downs of early company building. Our belief that machine learning is the transformative technology of our time is built on a deep experience building data products. Were excited by new ideas that help unlock the power of machine learning by solving key problems in Infrastructure, Applied ML, Dev Tools, and Security and Privacy. Data is at its Kitty Hawk moment and were thrilled to be a lifting force for the next generation of founders seeking to defy gravity. If youre in the early stages of company-building, wed love to connect with you. Please consider making a short intro video and sending us the link via the Airtable form below: https://airtable.com/shrr4lsIQtc4yYNkO
Experience · 3 entries
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2022
Venture Partner
May 2022
N47 is a global venture firm. We invest when the product speaks loudest—before the buzz and the metrics, when the truest expression of potential is the product itself. That’s when we partner with bold builders, those who begin with insight and move with urgency, and help them grow from belief to scale. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we back builders across the US, Europe, and Israel.
2016
Octave
Investor
Jan 2016
Investor
Jan 2016
Octave is an early-stage, founder-centric fund investing in enterprise data opportunities. As former founders, we deeply understand the highlights and lowlights of the founder journey. We strive to be close partners of the companies we invest in and take a hands-on approach to helping navigate the ups and downs of early company building. Our belief that machine learning is the transformative technology of our time is built on a deep experience building data products. Were excited by new ideas that help unlock the power of machine learning by solving key problems in Infrastructure, Applied ML, Dev Tools, and Security and Privacy. Data is at its Kitty Hawk moment and were thrilled to be a lifting force for the next generation of founders seeking to defy gravity. If youre in the early stages of company-building, wed love to connect with you. Please consider making a short intro video and sending us the link via the Airtable form below: https://airtable.com/shrr4lsIQtc4yYNkO