# Fred Stevens-Smith, Co-Founder & CEO

> Fred Stevens-Smith, Co-Founder & CEO. The rounds they were named in and the filings that name them, each with its source.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/person/fred-stevens-smith (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

San Francisco, US · Angel

# Fred Stevens-Smith

Co-Founder & CEO

Latest rounds

- **Linear** Seed · $4.2M Nov 2019

Backs *Collaboration Tools* *Developer Tools* *DevOps* *SAAS*

Profile summary

- **Rounds named:** 1 none observed
- **Filings:** - with regulators
- **Podcasts:** 1 episodes

What this record rests on

- ✓ **Named in rounds** No round names them yet
- **On filings** No filing names them
- **Linked to a firm** No firm on record
- **Claimed** Not claimed yet

Titles come from the investor lists this database was built from, so read them as of their date.

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## Rounds they were named in

- **Rounds:** 1
- **Led:** 0
- **Disclosed:** $4.2M
- **Active:** 2019

2019

- [Linear](https://millionrounds.com/company/linear) *Seed* **$4.2M** *US* Nov 2019 Joined · +14 investors

By stage

- Seed **1**

What they backed

Collaboration Tools **1** Developer Tools **1** DevOps **1** SAAS **1** AI **1** Software **1**

Alongside

- [Bobby Goodlatte *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bobby-goodlatte)
- [Charlie Cheever *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/charlie-cheever)
- [Dan Romero *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/dan-romero)
- [Dylan Field *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/dylan-field)
- [Emilie Choi *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/emilie-choi)
- [Gustaf Alströmer *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/gustaf-alstromer-2)
- [Index Ventures *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/index-ventures)
- [James Smith *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/james-smith)

Rounds where a report named this person rather than a firm, matched on name: read it as a strong hint, not proof, since people share names.

## Companies they are listed as backing

Portfolio

- [Linear](https://millionrounds.com/company/linear)

## Hear them before you pitch them

- [The Official SaaStr Podcast](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/saastr) · 11 Jul 2016 · 31 min SaaStr 038: Rainforest QA's Fred Stevens-Smith on Firing Fast, The Transition From Founder To CEO & Why You Should Spend The Most Time with Your Highest Performers With [Fred Stevens-Smith](https://millionrounds.com/person/fred-stevens-smith) Mentions [Kris Duggan](https://millionrounds.com/fund/kris-duggan)[Marc Benioff](https://millionrounds.com/fund/marc-benioff)[Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator)[Byron Deeter](https://millionrounds.com/person/byron-deeter) About this episode Fred Stevens-Smith is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Rainforest QA, which if you listened to 20VC with Byron Deeter, you will remember he discussed them and their amazing trajectory. So for QA first, it is essentially QA as a service making it fast and easy to test your webapp in multiple browsers and… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page

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