12 Facts About Spark Capital

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Spark Capital is a venture capital firm in the United States, responsible for early-stage funding startups of consumer, commerce, FinTech, software, frontier, and media sectors.

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Spark Capital was launched in 2005 by Paul Conway, Santo Politi, and Todd Dagres.

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Spark Capital was founded in 2005 by Bijan Sabet, Paul Conway, Santo Politi, and Todd Dagres.

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Spark Capital has been known for co-investing with Union Square Ventures.

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Bijan Sabet, the partner at Spark Capital, invested in Twitter's second round in June 2008, along with Jeff Bezos and additional investments from past investors such as Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, and Sabet accepted a board seat at Twitter.

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Spark Capital invested in Series D funding rounds of a cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase.

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Spark Capital invested in multiple funding rounds of a gamer chat tool Discord, with General Partner Nabeel Hyatt joining the board as an observer.

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Spark Capital invested in multiple funding rounds of a social trading and multi-asset brokerage company eToro, and led its $8.

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In December 2016, Spark Capital led a series B funding round for Pendo, a software company.

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Spark Capital has invested in multiple rounds of technology-driven commerce company Perch.

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Spark Capital led a Series B funding round for Niantic, a software development company that developed augmented reality mobile games Pokemon Go and Ingress in November 2017.

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Spark Capital invested in multiple funding rounds of a camera and social media startup Snap .

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