Jason Smith - Founder of Klue

Join our host Alejandro and the Techstars alumni tech founder community at this Web Series conversation with our special guest Jason Smith.

Guest Background

Jason is a 5x startup entrepreneur and currently CEO and Cofounder of Klue, a 250 person competitive enablement platform serving 500+ global clients. Prior to Klue, Jason was President of Alida, a customer intelligence company he helped grow from startup to 500 person market leader. He was Vice President of Electronic Arts, and cofounder of Columbus Group, a web applications pioneer acquired by TELUS (NYSE:TU). Jason has raised $100m+ in venture capital, invested and advised more than a dozen startups, received EY’s and BDC’s Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year award, and graduated with distinction from the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business.

Fun facts:

• Planted over 100,000 trees
• Lost the tip of his baby finger in Thailand
• Studied in Canada, France and Brussels, Belgium
• Took a round-the-world family gap year, visiting 13 countries incl. Egypt during the revolution
• Hiked the Inca trail, paraglided over the Blue Lagoon and went cage diving with crocodiles
• Toronto transplant living in Vancouver, and living for the mountains