Chris Smith

Chris Smith is the Managing Partner at Playfair, a Kauffman Fellow (Class 25), and a Contributor to Forbes. They co-founded the D&I initiative, Female Founder Office Hours (FFOH), in 2019, and focus on pre-seed investments in robotics, autonomous transportation, HealthTech, and B2B SaaS across the UK and Europe. Previously, Chris held senior roles at plan.com and has executed numerous angel investments, achieving six exits. In their earlier career, Chris spent nearly a decade as a transactional lawyer, advising private equity and venture capital funds on corporate transactions.