Andi Vanetta Smith
Operating Partner, LP Relations, Stage 2 Capital
Before joining Stage 2 Capital, I spent a decade recruiting best-in-class GTM professionals. My career began in 2012 at Premier, followed by founding Vanetta Partners (2014-2022), a boutique recruitment firm specializing in Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Partnerships, RevOps, and People Operations roles for stealth-to-scale startups. I had the privilege of working with notable startups like Zoom, Xamarin (acq: Microsoft), Zendesk, Plaid, Algolia, Evinced, Dialpad, Legion Technologies, and SendBird, to name a few.Over my ten years in search and placement, I partnered with numerous VC firms, which inspired me to become a Limited Partner, reinvesting in the next generation of founders through aligned VC funds. This journey led me to invest as an LP with our co-founders Mark Roberge (Founding CRO, HubSpot / HBS) and Jay Po (formerly Bessemer Capital) ultimately leading to my current role as Operating Partner focused on LP Relations—our spin on IR, which encompasses portfolio GTM support, formal advisory board development, executive hire placements, LP community engagement, and fundraising.
I’m thrilled to collaborate with some of the sharpest minds in technology and GTM, including my partner on the LP Relations team and fellow Operating Partner, John Boucher (GTM Advisor to Seismic and Gainsight, and former EVP at Oracle and ServiceNow).
A bit more about Stage 2 Capital: We’re the first VC firm run and backed by over 800+ GTM Operator LPs from industry leaders like Datadog, Atlassian, Snowflake, Salesforce, MongoDB, Databricks, Stripe, Klaviyo, Zoom, HubSpot, Asana, Toast, Webflow, Calendly, Canva, and many other Cloud 100 and S&P 500 companies.
If you’re an early-stage founder or GTM Operator curious about Stage 2 Capital, I’d love to connect and share more!
