Smartex is a venture capital firm focusing on seed and early-stage investments in startups in Georgia and elsewhere. Areas of focus are Digital Wallets & Electronic Payments, Local Search, Deals, Discounts & Ecommerce and Telecommunications (VoIP). Smartex portfolio companies include, eMoney, MoneyMovers, Swoop (including its subsidiaries and resources the.ge, PinPoint.ge, Freeshop, PAYStore, Taxi24.ge, Place2b, vouchers.ge and lunchmenu.ge), MyPhone, Place.ge (10%), Lit.ge (5%), Coinbase (small minority stake), TransferWise (small minority stake) and FriendlyMe (minority stake). In November 2013, Smartex co-organised the first Startup Weekend event in Tbilisi.
