Adam Smith

About Adam Smith

Adam is co-founder of Wrangle.io, an AI-powered ticketing and workflow engine built for how work gets done today - in Slack. Wrangle\'s conversational help desk automates a company’s internal and external ticketing — automatically tracking work, notifying people to take action, and making sure nothing slips through the cracks. With Wrangle, there is no need for context switching, no more missed requests, and no nagging colleagues for updates.Prior to founding Wrangle, Adam was COO of Automated Insights (Ai), a pioneer in generative AI that turned data into human-sounding stories at scale. The company produced billions of personalized stories a year for the Fortune 500 customers like The Associated Press, Activision, Microsoft, Tableau, Allstate, Charles Schwab and more. Ai was acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in 2015.Adam helped lead three rounds of venture financing and the eventual strategic acquisition by Vista. Adam served as CRO and COO while at Ai, and led corporate strategy as well as the channel, sales, marketing, customer success, finance, and legal teams for the company. Prior to joining Ai, Adam was SVP at Square 1 Bank, a venture bank where he served as Director of a National Division called Square Roots. Adam was recruited by Square 1 to design, develop and launch Square Roots, which focused on pre-vc startups. As part of the program, he worked one-on-one with hundreds of early-stage founders, serving as an advisor providing hands on support with strategy, product development and fundraising. Prior to Square 1, Adam was Vice President of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), where he led the program team and was responsible for strategic relationships. While at CED, he led a team for The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation that authored the FastTrac TechVenture program, a world-renowned training and mentoring program for technology and life science entrepreneurs.

Experience

1. Limited Partner

   Nc Tweener Fund, Powered By Nc Idea

   Jan 2022 — Present · Durham, NC, US

Education

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  BSBA, Business

  1997 — 1999

Skills

• Salesforce.com
• Angel Investing
• Private Equity
• Mobile Devices
• Strategic Planning
• Market Research
• Corporate Development
• Competitive Analysis
• Selling
• Start-Ups
• Saas
• Executive Management
• Sales
• Business Planning
• Finance
• Business Development
• Generating Revenue
• Public Relations
• Leadership
• Business Strategy
• Product Development
• Analysis
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Running
• Fundraising
• Entrepreneur
• Small Business
• Program Management
• Legal Documents
• Sales Contracts
• Venture Capital
• Weightlifting
• Product Marketing
• Sales&Marketing
• Strategy
• Strategic Partnerships
• Management
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Entrepreneurship
• Strategy Development