Travis Smith

Founder & CEO at Tribevest

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Travis Smith – Founder & CEO, Tribevest

Travis Smith is the Founder and CEO of Tribevest, the compliance-first infrastructure and banking platform transforming private market capital raising. Tribevest delivers private deal infrastructure—institutional-grade capital aggregation made accessible to Lead Sponsors, Independent Capital Aggregators (ICAs), and investors alike.

Travis began his career on Wall Street with Morgan Stanley before serving as Head of Strategic Partners at Jack Henry & Associates, a leading FinTech provider to financial institutions nationwide. These experiences shaped his conviction that access, compliance, and credibility define success in financial markets.

He launched Tribevest to solve a universal problem: how to raise and invest capital safely, efficiently, and compliantly with trusted partners. The platform now enables Lead Sponsors to work with external Capital Partners compliantly and gives those partners infrastructure to launch Fund of Fund SPVs in days—complete with entity formation, banking, offering documents, investor onboarding, and back-office administration—while giving them the tools to build professional fund businesses and investors a secure way to participate in premium deals.

Since the launch of its Pro platform, Tribevest has powered more than 50 deals, partnered with over 150 capital raisers, and facilitated $200+ million in compliant capital raises. Today, Tribevest is defining the standard for structured, compliant, and scalable private investing.