John Smothers is a two-time founder-turned-VC at Scribble Ventures who has backed 30+ companies as both an angel and institutional investor, giving him unusually recent hands-on founder experience compared to many career VCs. He focuses on pre-seed and seed investments with a tight check-size band of $300K–$750K and actively co-invests with top-tier firms, providing founders an on-ramp into strong syndicates while coming in with right-sized early checks rather than trying to dominate rounds. John Smothers is a two-time founder-turned-VC at Scribble Ventures who has backed 30+ companies as both an angel and institutional investor, giving him unusually recent hands-on founder experience compared to many career VCs. He focuses on pre-seed and seed investments with a tight check-size band of $300K–$750K and actively co-invests with top-tier firms, providing founders an on-ramp into strong syndicates while coming in with right-sized early checks rather than trying to dominate rounds.