About
Brian Smith serves as the Founder and Managing Director of S3 Ventures, an earlier-stage venture capital firm with $95M under management. He oversees all of S3′s investments. S3 invests primarily in Texas and the southwest. Brian previously worked at Solace Therapeutics as a Board Of Directors. He attended Purdue University and the University of Cincinnati. Brian co-founded the Convergent Investors Fund before S3, a $70M early-stage venture capital firm in Texas where he oversaw investments in 10 companies. At age 29, he founded and served as chairman and CEO of Crossroads Systems (Nasdaq: CRDS). He led Crossroads through five rounds of venture, strategic and mezzanine financing, and to a successful IPO in 1999. Brian Smith ran Crossroads as a public company for nearly four years. In this role, he was an early pioneer in Storage Area Networks (“SANs”), which are industry-standard solutions today. For his efforts, he was awarded the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 6 investors at S3 Ventures are tracked.
- • 128 investors hold the Founder and Managing Director role in VCSift. Brian Smith is one of them.
- • 1,334 investors are based in Austin, Texas, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
Investment Focus
- Stages
- seed
- Location
- Austin, US
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