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Paul Szurek is a partner at Smash Capital based in New York, where he makes $20-500 million equity investments into growth stage fintech, enterprise software, consumer internet companies. Paul has led Smash's investments into Equi, Bilt, Blockchain.com, Pearl AI, TradingView, and Finvari. Prior to Smash, Paul was the Head of Venture Capital investing at Juxtapose and an investor at Insight Partners. At Insight, Paul led or co-led the investment of over $1 billion in equity capital across 15 companies and represented the firm in 11 board roles. Investments Paul led at Insight include Monday.com, Insightful Sciences, TradingView, OpenWeb, Divvy, SimpleNexus, Quantum Metric, VNDLY, ContractPod and Simscale, in addition to supporting investments in Vinted, Sift, Delivery Hero, Hellofresh and Qualtrics. Paul started his career on the operating side of technology businesses: first as a management consultant for Bain & Company working with software and Internet media clients, and later runn
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- • 5 investors at Smash Capital are tracked.
- • 2,531 investors hold the Partner role in VCSift. Paul Szurek is one of them.
- • 10,621 investors are based in New York, New York, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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