Who we are

Created by an early stage operator, engineer, and angel investor, we fund early stage founders building category-defining technical products.

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Ashley Smith

Founding Partner

As an operator, Ashley worked on and led GTM teams at Twilio, Parse, GitLab, and Github. After investing as an angel and Venture Partner, she created Vermilion Cliffs to help pre-seed and seed stage founders build and grow their companies.

About Us

Named for the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, our fund takes a rugged approach to venture and is anything but traditional. Vermilion exists to help founders build and scale the early GTM engine for their business.

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How we can help

Our startup experience spans some of the best technical products on the market and hundreds of early stage companies. We've seen it all and can help our founders with GTM, fundraising, hiring, and more.

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Go-to-Market

We've helped build some of the largest technical companies on the planet and can help founders think through what's next for their startup.

Hiring

We've worked with some of the best operators in the world. We can help you hire, think through organizational structure, and, if helpful, be on the final interview loop.

Fundraising

We've helped our founders raise both the round we are participating in as well as later rounds. We've built a large network of technical investors at all stages.

Capital

Have it all figured out and just need capital? That's great. We are happy to just be a check on the cap table and only want to be involved when you need us.