Spark Capital

Venture Capital
55investments
5exits
$41.4Braised by its portfolio in 12 months
3,774open roles in its portfolio

Overview

Spark Capital is a venture capital firm that backs founders across all sectors and stages, from early rounds to later growth investments. It is known for early bets on consumer and technology companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Oculus, Slack and Discord. The firm was founded in 2005 by Santo Politi, Todd Dagres and Bijan Sabet and operates from Boston, New York and San Francisco.

Investor profile

Venture capital
Investments
55
30 of them startups
Hiring now
39
3,774 open roles
Deals in 12 months
1
1 as the lead
Rounds in 12 months
15
$41.4B raised
Exits
5
Focusshare of its companies
Artificial Intelligence 44%Financial Services 10%Space & Aerospace 8%Software 6%Internet Services 6%Health Care 6%Gaming 4%Blockchain & Crypto 4%
Where its companies are
United States 76%New Zealand 2%
Stage of its companies
Series A 47%Series B 33%Series C and later 13%Pre-seed & seed 7%
Its companies, the freshest money firstAll 55 investments
RampVenture round $1.9B · this month · 155 roles OratomicVenture round $475M · 1 mo ago · led a round · 18 roles CyeraVenture round $400M · 1 mo ago · 241 roles CrusoeVenture round $3.9B · 1 mo ago · 278 roles Generalist AIVenture round $198.2M · 3 mo ago · 37 roles ParallelSeries B $100M · 4 mo ago · 31 roles BasetenSeries F $1.5B · 4 mo ago · 101 roles MercuryVenture round $200M · 6 mo ago · 71 roles MatXVenture round $500M · 8 mo ago · 41 roles AnthropicSeries G $30B · 8 mo ago · led a round · 671 roles Edison ScientificVenture round $65.9M · 11 mo ago ProfluentVenture round $106M · 11 mo ago · led a round · 13 roles
3,774 open roles at 39 of its companies
Hiring fastestroles opened in 30 days
General Motors330 new roles in 30 days Anthropic188 new roles in 30 days · led a round Affirm94 new roles in 30 days Crusoe87 new roles in 30 days Coinbase77 new roles in 30 days Chainguard62 new roles in 30 days
Co-investorscompanies they hold together
SV Angel 17 shared Andreessen Horowitz 15 shared Silicon Valley Investclub 12 shared Coatue 12 shared Soma Capital 11 shared Sequoia Capital 11 shared Y Combinator 10 shared Lightspeed Venture Partners 10 shared Kleiner Perkins 8 shared IVP 7 shared
Similar investorstheir companies share markets and countries
Andreessen Horowitz SV Angel Multimodal Ventures Khosla Ventures Soma Capital Coatue Menlo Ventures Y Combinator
Sources: its portfolio page, read Nov 8; 16 rounds in the press that name it

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Boston United States
HQ