Zach Smith

Zach Smith is a serial entrepreneur, having never had a “real” job his entire life. He’s always starting, selling, running, and managing businesses. Zach loves helping others turn their dreams, ideas, and inspirations into successful companies.

Zach graduated Summa Cum Laude as the valedictorian from Weber State University’s Goddard School of Business and Economics with a business degree specializing in Accounting. Zach speaks fluent Mandarin. For two (2) years (2011 and 2014), under Zach’s leadership, Zach’s other companies received 3rd Place at the prestigious Utah Student 25 competition. Funded Today is pacing to break into the Top 100 on The Inc. 5000 for 2018, having raised nearly $200,000,000 for crowdfunding campaigns in just the last four (4) years alone, and is one of the fastest growing private companies in the country. Chances are, if you’ve seen a successful campaign on Kickstarter or IndieGoGo, Funded Today has been the driving factor behind its success!

Zach has been featured in numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, TechCrunch, Mashable, Entrepreneur, Forbes, and The Huffington Post. He is the Co-Author of the upcoming book “Funded” and he is also the Co-Founder of “CrowdCon Virtual”, the world’s first and biggest virtual crowdfunding summit. Zach Smith is newly married to the beautiful and talented opera singer, Courtney Bergen, and resides in the glorious city of Ogden, Utah. Zach is a curious soul-he never stops asking questions. He craves knowledge. Whenever he has spare time, he enjoys real estate investing, angel investing, private lending, competitive indoor soccer, basketball, weight lifting, reading business biographies and autobiographies, listening to podcasts and audiobooks, traveling the world, playing table tennis, and working with young entrepreneurs and start-ups.