Spark Capital
Leading venture firm with offices in New York and Boston, known for early bets on Twitter, Slack, Discord, and Coinbase. Invests across consumer and enterprise technology from seed through growth.
Typical check size
$1M-$10M (stage-based estimate)
Founded
2005
Headquarters
New York, NY & Boston, MA
AUM
N/A
Rounds they lead
Rounds they invest
Portfolio companies we track
Startups in our directory that list Spark Capital as an investor (34 total).
- Abridge AI medical scribe capturing clinician-patient conversations into structured EHR notes.
- Affirm Public buy-now-pay-later lender founded by Max Levchin (NASDAQ: AFRM).
- Air Space Intelligence AI-powered air operations platform (Flyways) for airlines and government airspace management.
- Base Power U.S.-made residential batteries and energy plans that aggregate into a virtual power plant — grid flexibility at the edge of the home.
- Blackbird Restaurant loyalty and payments network with web3 rails (Blackbird Labs).
- Blackbird.xyz Alias for Blackbird Labs — restaurant loyalty and payments network.
- Cambridge Aerospace Low-cost air-defence interceptors and sensors for mass drone and missile threats.
- Capitolis Capital markets SaaS optimizing bank balance sheets (novations, compressions, Ionic).
- Convex Reactive TypeScript backend — database, serverless functions, and real-time sync in one platform.
- Cyera Data-security trust layer for enterprise AI — DSPM, DLP, and agentic access control across cloud and SaaS.
- Deel Global payroll and compliance platform for hiring and paying international teams.
- Descript AI-powered audio and video editor — edit media like a text document.
- Earnin Earned wage access app — cash out paychecks early without mandatory fees or payday loans.
- Eve AI operating system for plaintiff law firms from intake through settlement.
- Foursquare Location intelligence and places-data platform for enterprises and developers.
- Headway Insurance-network platform connecting patients to in-network therapists — largest mental-health provider network in the U.S.
- Instabase Applied AI platform for enterprise unstructured document processing and workflow automation.
- Kalshi CFTC-regulated prediction-market exchange for event contracts.
- Latent Health Clinical AI platform accelerating medication access via prior auth and pharmacy workflows.
- Luma AI Multimodal generative AI — Dream Machine text-to-video and 3D capture.
- Lumilens Optical interconnect platform connecting AI GPUs at hyperscaler scale.
- Medium Online publishing platform for long-form writing, blogs, and member-supported newsletters.
- Mountaintop Studios Game studio founded by Oculus co-founder Nate Mitchell building competitive PvP titles.
- Neros Technologies Mass-manufactured autonomous strike and counter-UAS drones for the U.S. and allies.
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FAQs about Spark Capital
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