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Brent J. Smith

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Brent J. Smith

@brentsmith1024

@keelventures @harvard

New York, NY

keel.club

Born October 24

Joined August 2017

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Brent J. Smith
@brentsmith1024
Apr 14
Applications for Keel Cohort 3.0 are now open! Keel is the NYC accelerator. We believe that young people consistently build extraordinary companies, are inadequately served by today's accelerator market, and have no home east of San Francisco. Keel Cohort 3.0 is: 🏙️ Hosted in
Apply to Keel Cohort 3.0
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Brent J. Smith
@brentsmith1024
Jun 17, 2024
Introducing Keel. Over the past few months, @JohnnyNi13 (Recruiting), Babak Kia (Programming), James Ryan (Strategy), and I worked together to build @KeelVentures — the residential summer startup accelerator for Ivy+ founders in NYC. We’re hosting 19 early-stage teams — 29
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Brent J. Smith
@brentsmith1024
Jul 19, 2024
We are officially half-way through @KeelVentures in NYC! In just 4 weeks, Keel Cohort 1.0 has: - Shipped 8 Products - Signed 50 Paying Customers - Added $400K+ ARR - Raised $450K Uncapped - Built autonomous drones, deployed APIs for APIs, sold 5-in-1 test strips for laced
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Brent J. Smith
@brentsmith1024
Aug 16, 2024
Keel is over. Last week, we wrapped up @KeelVentures with our FIRST-EVER Demo Day, with 12 teams pitching their ventures to a room full of NYC investors. How’d they do? In just 8 weeks, Keel Cohort 1.0… Shipped 11 products 🛠️ Signed 90+ paying customers 📈 Added $1.1M+ ARR
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Brent J. Smith
@brentsmith1024
Jul 9, 2024
Today, @KeelVentures hosted @Shervin for a chat at our NYC office! Shervin Pishevar is the founder of Telly and Hyperloop, and an early investor @ Uber, Airbnb, Snap, and more. He chatted with our teams on how to maximize collective talent in early hires, how to detect killer
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Brent J. Smith
@brentsmith1024
Jul 2, 2024
To kickoff Week 3 of @KeelVentures, we hosted a product workshop this morning with the amazing @BabakKia. As our teams begin to ship their products and GTM, walking through MVP, UVP, product Dos and Dont’s, and other helpful product tips could not be more important. Team
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Brent J. Smith
@brentsmith1024
Jul 22, 2024
This past weekend, we hosted the FIRST-EVER @KeelVentures Hackathon. Our teams were prompted to make the most progress possible on their ventures, and set a “realistic” goal, “stretch” goal, and “super-stretch” goal for the weekend. Hitting Super-Stretch Goals = 💰 And the
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Brent J. Smith
@brentsmith1024
Aug 16, 2024
Replying to @brentsmith1024
Thank you to @JoshSiegel71696 @AdamIAchebe @pluggerbot @ben__okeefe @aidan__pratt @jjaison13 @vienna_sparks @MabLabtests @WilliamHYZhang @shreypj @AnanthVeluvali @josephjojoe @amritakbhasin @sehtoshi and everyone else who was involved with Keel this summer🫶 Stay tuned for a
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Brent J. Smith
@brentsmith1024
May 8, 2023
The AI wave has spawned thousands of new AI products, yet output bias and hallucinations haven't improved. Current safeguards tell AIs what they can talk about, not how to talk about anything. Been working on an AI project and am excited to share it with you all soon!
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Brent J. Smith
@brentsmith1024
Jun 9, 2023
Replying to @wetarynitup
tell me about it🤣
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Brent J. Smith
@brentsmith1024
Jun 17, 2024
Replying to @neomewtwo @JohnnyNi13 and @KeelVentures
our thesis is that more top talent should be building, which pertains to all top talent, a lot of which is at ivies, but some of which isn’t. we have non-ivy+ in the cohort
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Brent J. Smith
@brentsmith1024
Jul 11, 2023
Microsoft just won the FTC battle to buy video game giant Activision Blizzard. AI-generated games coming soon?👀
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Brent J. Smith
@brentsmith1024
Aug 9, 2024
Replying to @aidan__pratt and @KeelVentures
power nap t-minus 20 hours til demo day
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Brent J. Smith
@brentsmith1024
Jun 8, 2023
Replying to @chrisman
Everything about this is incredible, except the voice.
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