Spark Capital

Activity from announced rounds

All recorded activity

Spark Capital is a venture investor that works with founders during early company development, with an emphasis on product judgment and founder-led businesses.

Spark’s stated approach favours sustained company building over short-term resale or financial engineering. It offers direct advice while leaving founders responsible for running their companies, rather than prescribing a single operating formula.

Sources
Rounds participated in
35
Confirmed lead rounds
5
25 roles undisclosed
New companies
34
First participation on record · 1 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$6.8B
34 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Series C+13
Series A10
Series B8
Undisclosed2
Pre-seed1
1 more
Seed1

By primary sector

AI11
Fintech7
Climate tech3
Healthtech3
Hardware2
6 more
Proptech2
Robotics2
Space tech2
Cybersecurity1
Defense tech1
Developer tools1

By country

United States30
Germany2
United Kingdom2
Norway1

Rounds

35 in all activity
Granola

AI note-taking app

$125MSeries C
Role not disclosed
Shepherd

Provides AI-native commercial insurance platform for construction and infrastructure projects

$42MSeries B
Role not disclosed
Qdrant

An open-source vector search engine.

$50MSeries B
Role not disclosed
Unleash

Provides real-time control over AI-driven software delivery for enterprises

$35MSeries B
Role not disclosed
Baseten

Builds systems software for AI applications, focusing on inference and model deployment

$300MSeries E
Role not disclosed