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Jeremy Smith

Jeremy Smith

Chief Technology Officer at Medici Ventures

April 14, 2020

Jeremy Smith has over two decades of experience building enterprise software solutions and development teams. He co-founded an insurance data consulting company, Castle Inspection Service ("CIS"), with an emphasis on technologies that help insurance carriers make better underwriting and loss control decisions. Serving as the Vice President of Information Systems, Mr. Smith led the technology efforts that scaled the company from a start-up to the point of providing national coverage. CIS was sold to a private equity firm and later to a publicly traded company, EXL Services.

Mr. Smith joined Medici Ventures,the leading blockchain accelerator and subsidiary of Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSTK) in 2018 and focused on coaching development teams on delivering blockchain-related software. He has worked with the teams to adopt strong practices in prioritizing business value and delivering product features to production. In 2019, Jeremy Smith was appointed to Medici Ventures executive leadership team.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Smith helped found the University Venture Fund (“UVF”), the country’s largest university student-managed venture capital fund. UVF has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Newsweek, Venture Capital Journal, Dow Jones Newswire, and the Associated Press.


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