Jed Smith

Jed is a Partner at Owl Ventures. He is also the Founder of Catamount Ventures where he has served as Managing Partner since its inception in 2000. Catamount Ventures has raised four funds totaling over $200M and invested in 35 entrepreneurial enterprises. Jed has dedicated his business career to the art of entrepreneurship and to making a difference. Jed currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of two firms - Linden Labs and Revolution Foods. In addition he serves on the Boards of directors of Banyan Water and Numi Tea and has also previously served as founding Director and Chariman of Plum Organics and on the board of directors of Seventh Generation. Prior to launching Catamount, Jed wrote the business plan and founded drugstore.com in 1997 that ultimately sold to Walgreens for ~$450M, serving on its board of directors with John Doerr, Brook Byers, Peter Neupert, Howard Schultz and Jeff Bezos. Before that, he co-founded and spent four years at Cybersmith, a retail store chain that showcased the latest advances in information technology and multimedia software. Jed was also Vice President of Sales at Tribe Computer Works, a networking hardware and software company that was successfully sold. Jed began his career in technology working in the dynamic early years at Oracle corporation in the Direct Marketing Division with bosses and piers ranging from Tom Siebel to Marc Benioff, Dave Dewalt to Mike Decesare. at Oracle Corporation. World-class mentors have been critical to his Jed’s career. Jed also has keen interests in the worlds of sustainability, education, providing access to those in need and stopping the cycle of mass discrimination and incarceration. He has also served on the boards of several education and non-profit institutions, including the Monterey Institute for International Studies, Shackleton Schools, the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and 10 years on the Board of Trustees of Middlebury College in Vermont. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Caitlin and their three kids Quinn, Annabel and Lilah. Jed earned a BA from Middlebury College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.