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Curious Office
Micro-fund
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Curious Office is a seed-stage investment and company-building lab founded and operated by Kelly Smith, based in Boise, Idaho. The firm believes that 'the best seed stage investor partners are builders themselves,' working alongside founders from the earliest stages to provide capital, strategic guidance, and decades of experience building digital products. Current focus areas include telehealth applications, AI-driven agents and infrastructure, AI-enabled healthcare and biotech, next-generation consumer applications, and advanced GTM-engineering pipelines. The firm's operating philosophy is hands-on and practitioner-led: 'Everything works better when you put builders next to builders. We don't make slide decks or tell founders how to run their company. If we can't improve the design, the code, or the product directly, we stay out of the way. The best epiphanies happen in the weeds — in the repo, in the prototype, in the actual work.'
Notable quotes
“Everything works better when you put builders next to builders. We don't make slide decks or tell founders how to run their company. If we can't improve the design, the code, or the product directly, we stay out of the way. The best epiphanies happen in the weeds — in the repo, in the prototype, in the actual work.”
“Go build unique systems where AI runs niche, real-world workflows. Automate as much of your own sales workflows as possible. The best agent builders right now are polymaths who learn to become domain experts — people who learn the business workflows. They listen to customers, learn fast, then build like veterans.”
“These people are more curious than most people and I even named my company Curious Office for that reason. What occupies their mind is the thing in front of them — the problem, the product, the next move. It's the pursuit of mission that keeps them engaged.”
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Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Second Avenue Partners | 2 |
| Ignition Partners | 1 |
| Crosslink Capital | 1 |
| Holtzbrinck Ventures | 1 |
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