Charles Smart's path to Cross Creek is unusual: he interned there back in 2010, then worked in banking at Deutsche Bank, growth investing at Battery Ventures, and product/corporate development at DigiCert before returning to Cross Creek in 2017 to focus on enterprise software companies like Anaplan, Databricks, GitLab, and Klaviyo. Beyond investing, he's fluent in Spanish, studied Spanish art history in Asturias, Spain, is rooted in Salt Lake City from his University of Utah days, and keeps a pretty quiet public profile, simply describing himself online as an investor at Cross Creek.
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SaaS, Fintech, Health, Cybersecurity, Biotech
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Cross Creek is a Utah-based venture fund that combines late-stage private growth investing with a large fund-of-funds platform, holding more than 250 fund investments, 85+ active managers, and 5,900+ underlying companies through a global network that includes managers in Europe and Asia. Led by Karey Barker, who comes from a public investing background, the firm treats late-stage private growth as its own distinct asset class and works with both established and specialist emerging managers to gain access to focused, sector-specific expertise.
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