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2 months

The Spark Capital team is thrilled to share that we have raised $2.3 billion in aggregate commitments for our new early-stage and venture-growth funds: Spark Capital VIII & Spark Growth V.

New Spark Capital Funds

The Spark Capital team is delighted to announce that we have raised new early-stage and venture-growth funds: Spark Capital VIII & Spark…

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

3 years

1/ In light of recent news about the Vlog Squad and David Dobrik, the cofounder of Dispo, we have made the decision to sever all ties with the company.

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2/ We have stepped down from our position on the board and we are in the process of making arrangements to ensure we do not profit from our recent investment in Dispo.

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Spark Capital

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2 years

The Spark Capital team is delighted to announce that we are now investing out of our newest set of early-stage and venture-growth funds with over $2.1 billion aggregate commitments.

Spark 2022 Funds

The Spark Capital team is delighted to announce that we are now investing out of our newest set of early-stage and venture-growth funds…

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

4 years

We hope you enjoy our new look, originally inspired by our dear friend and former Spark founder, @biz .

A New Look for Spark

Today, we unveiled our new look, one that was influenced by our past and is a nod to the many creators who have inspired us over the years.

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@sparkcapital

5 years

Two major milestones for @InVisionApp today: celebrating 5M+ users (97% of the Fortune 100) and announcing their Series F funding! 👏👏🚀 We're thrilled to continue our partnership, and to have Spark's @msquinn join their board

InVision, valued at $1.9 billion, picks up $115 million Series F | TechCrunch

"The screen is becoming the most important place in the world," says InVision CEO and founder Clark Valberg. In fact, it's hard to get through a

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

4 years

. @YasminRazavi and @willreed_21 have long been key members of Spark. We’re thrilled to announce both have been promoted to GP. We’re grateful for their superb work with founders and are excited about their future contributions to Spark and our community!

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

7 months

Big news! Spark is thrilled to welcome @natalievais , and to congratulate newly-promoted @Fraser and @claymfisher , our three new General Partners. We look forward to a bright future together!

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

4 years

Congrats Zach, William, and the entire @Plaid team as they join forces with Visa and continue their mission of democratizing financial services through technology. We're grateful to have been part of the journey from the beginning. More from @santopoliti :

Congratulations, Plaid!

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

4 years

Starting this summer, we are running an annual internship program geared to underrepresented groups. The program is about giving interns access to and teaching them about the venture capital industry. Please share and apply!

Spark Capital Internship Program — 2020

Starting this summer, we will run an annual internship program geared to underrepresented groups.

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

4 years

Black Lives Matter.

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

7 years

"We are building a platform to empower the eSports ecosystem — to help turn passions into careers."🙌🎉🚀

Growing our team at smash.gg

Hey folks, we have some exciting updates to share.

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

4 years

New funds, new partners, same Spark DNA. We are grateful for our many founders and their teams for letting us be a part of your journey!

Spark Raises $1.35 Billion to Find the Next Plaid or Slack

The 15-year-old venture firm said it has raised its largest funds yet, with $450 million collected for early-stage startups and $900 million for growth-stage companies.

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

5 years

It's a VERY big day for @Plaid !💥 Incredibly proud to witness what @zachperret , @williamhockey and their team have built over the past 5 years, making the fintech ecosystem more accessible and empowering for all 👏👏

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

6 years

We're thrilled to announce our investment in @JustworksHR , one of the fastest growing HR SaaS companies 🙌 @afc shares more about their impressive product & team here:

Welcoming Justworks to Spark

At Spark we love partnering with companies taking a product-first approach, which is why we’re thrilled to announce our growth investment…

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

7 years

We're leading a $20 million round of funding in @joinverse . Excited about team and where this product is heading. 🎉

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

5 years

Welcome to the Spark family, @glossier ! 🎉🎉 We’re thrilled to be partners — and customers — on the journey! 💙 More on our investment here, from @msquinn :

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

7 years

Love having @IEX founder Brad Katsuyama at Spark SF today. Why a fair, simple and transparent stock exchange is better. #SparkIdeas

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

7 years

Always humbled and inspired by our amazing community. Thanks to everyone who joined us in our San Francisco office for our summer event☀️

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@sparkcapital

7 years

An honor to have the great Clay Christensen come and speak to the Spark team today. Hard to believe The Innovator's Dilemma is 20 yrs old!🙌

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@sparkcapital

7 years

Congrats to @stewart & team at @SlackHQ on this milestone. 6 million daily users, 100% annual growth they are 🚀

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

6 years

Blown away by @badassboz . Thank you for chatting with @msquinn today at our Summit! Amazing insights on building iconic brands. 🙌

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@sparkcapital

5 years

Team Spark takes the @SFMOMA ! 👊

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

8 years

🚨🚨 @msquinn is joining @carlquintanilla and the gang on @SquawkAlley this morning. Grab ☕️ and tune in at 11 am ET.

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Spark Capital

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6 years

It's a *very* big day for @getthemirror 🎉🎉 We couldn’t be more excited to play a role in what Brynn & her team are building — and for everyone to see the product that blew our team away!

Mirror raises $25 million and launches $1,495 connected mirror for virtual fitness classes

New York-based Mirror today launched its connected fitness-focused mirror out of stealth and announced a $25 million round of funding from Spark Capital. This comes six months after the startup first...

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@sparkcapital

7 years

Here we go! #startupgrind

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@sparkcapital

6 years

Congrats to all the amazing venture catalysts featured on this historic cover of @Forbes including our own @msquinn 👏

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@sparkcapital

7 years

"We feel like smaller startup companies with a singular mission/focus can out-innovate larger companies"

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@sparkcapital

7 years

We're leading @particle 's $20 million Series B. Excited to be along for the ride with @zs and team!🎉🎉🎉

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

2 years

We are also incredibly excited to share the well-earned promotion of @natsandman and @jameskuklinski to General Partner in these new funds.

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

7 years

"We're kind of big on David vs. Goliath here" -- @bijan

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

3 years

Congratulations @mlevchin and the entire @affirm team on today’s IPO! We are proud to have been a part of your journey.

Affirm

@Affirm

3 years

Affirm is now #NasdaqListed ($AFRM)! We’re excited about this huge step forward as we bring our mission to life.

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

1 year

and just like that, Tenderly now has a node-as-a-service offering! Infinitely scalable, benchmarks show up to 8x improvements against peers and above all integrated with the entire beloved Tenderly suite….end-to-end!!

Tenderly

@TenderlyApp

1 year

Listen up our dear dev frens – Tenderly Web3 Gateway is live! Our node brings a 360 approach to dapp development. This means you can finally build, test, monitor, and operate smart contracts from a single platform. Ready to get your game on? 😎🧵

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

8 years

We're excited to welcome Rachael Horwitz ( @RachaelRad ) to the team as our Marketing & Communications Partner:

Welcoming Rachael Horwitz to Spark Capital

We are delighted to welcome Rachael Horwitz to Spark Capital as our first Marketing & Communications Partner. In this role Rachael will…

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

6 years

It's that time of year! We rounded up 25 magical products we loved—and used!—in 2017. Great last-minute gift ideas from our team. 🎅🤶 Happy holidays!

Spark Capital: 2017 Products We Loved

Thinking about the magical products we discovered — or rediscovered — this year

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

4 years

At our core is the belief that founders are the architects of the future. That a product can create a whole new market, not just find market fit, and an outstanding technologist has the soul of an artist. Here’s to the next fifteen! More from @bijan .

Spark joy: launching our sixth set of funds

Today we celebrate our fifteenth anniversary. To mark it, we are announcing our sixth set of funds. At $1.35 billion, it’s only slightly…

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@sparkcapital

6 years

"At the end of the day, design is not how something looks or feels. Design is the abstraction of the technology to the end experience for the consumer." 🙌 Great conversation on design leadership with @InVisionApp and Spark's @msquinn

Freehand by InVision

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6 years

Season 2 of the #DesignBetter podcast— @msquinn from @sparkcapital talks about the common hurdles she sees across companies as they scale. Listen here

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3 years

Congratulations @1stDibs ! 1stDibs began with a vision of bringing the magic of the Paris flea market online. Today, the company is a thriving global marketplace offering a vast selection of unique items. We’ve been proud partners of this team since 2011.

1stDibs

@1stDibs

3 years

This is BIG. Today, @1stDibs is a #NasdaqListed public company. Tune in at 3:30pm ET to watch CEO @rosenblattdavid ring the Closing Bell to celebrate the occasion

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7 years

Tomorrow @msquinn is on stage at @StartupGrind w/ Co-Founder and CEO of @joinHandshake , @GarrettLord . Hope we see you there! #startupgrind

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

4 years

Proud supporters of @BrynnPutnam and team @getthemirror on their quest to make Mirror the third screen in people's homes. “It may be fitness and personal training today, but tomorrow it could be a meeting with a therapist or a session with a stylist.”

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5 years

New year, new career? Here's a few incredible startups from the Spark family who are growing (and hiring!) in 2019 🎉🎉 @JustworksHR , @nylas , @jfrog , @InVisionApp , @Plaid , @discordapp , @cartainc

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11 months

We are delighted to lead @AnthropicAI 's series C. A warm welcome from all of us at Spark!

Welcome, Anthropic!

We are delighted to lead Anthropic’s $450M Series C and welcome Dario, Daniela, Jack, Chris, Jared, Sam, Tom and their entire team to…

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

6 years

So proud to partner with these visionary brand builders: @friedgal , @kieroyale and the @mylolatweet team! 👏👏

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

2 years

Huge congratulations to @Hivemapper on their Series A - so much exciting progress on the horizon!

At long last, web3 makes a push to fight Google Maps | TechCrunch

Over a decade ago, a group of employees at Yahoo were struggling to compete with Google Maps as the younger firm aggressively outspent its rivals and

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

7 years

Thrilled to announce we're doubling down on @FreightFarms and invested in their $7.3 million Series B. 🌱👊

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

4 years

Special thanks to our community of founders and friends for joining us for our annual Spark Fall Party!

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

7 years

A heartfelt thank you to the amazing founders we get to work with every day.

Thinking about the long term

We live in a world that more often than not rewards instant gratification and demands short-term results. Making decisions and executing on…

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

7 years

. @kevinthau unboxing his @Superpedestrian Copenhagen Wheel at the office today 🙌👏

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Spark Capital

@sparkcapital

6 years

Today, we are very excited to announce our investment in @badiapp , a start-up based in Barcelona that is revolutionizing the real estate market. 🎉🎉 More via @finkelstein1 :

Welcoming Badi to Spark

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@sparkcapital

5 years

Welcome to the Spark family, @OwlLabsInc ! 🎉🎉 Smart tech like Meeting Owl will be essential in driving productivity & collaboration among an increasingly distributed workforce. We're thrilled to lead their Series B!

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@sparkcapital

5 years

Congrats to Spark portfolio cos @Affirm @cartainc @coinbase @earnin @Flywire @IEX and @Plaid 👏🎉👏 In good company on Forbes #Fintech50

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@sparkcapital

2 years

“Talk to a founder after an exit about their most important investor. They don’t talk about slightly higher term sheets or the best technical recruiting services. They say this is the board member that was there for me when it really mattered.” - @nabeel

An explosion in the number of unicorns has raised the bar for competing investors

There are nearly 1,000 companies valued at $1 billion today, and that means investors are adapting their strategies.

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@sparkcapital

6 years

SO proud to see @Andela expanding their reach & furthering their mission to build the next gen of technology leaders in Africa 🙌🚀 @Andela_Kigali

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@sparkcapital

7 years

Tomorrow! Ask @kevinthau questions about anything. Question inspiration: he has over 20 years working in startups, has a new puppy at home.

Product Hunt LIVE

@ProductHuntLIVE

7 years

Join @KevinThau General Partner @SparkCapital for a LIVE chat on 11/04 @ 10am PST. Ask Kevin anything 💫

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6 years

Congrats to @FlywireCo on their $100M Series D! 👏🎉👏 An incredible team on a mission to improve the payment experience globally.

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7 years

Congratulations @Andela on your $40M raise and all that you've accomplished 🙌 via @finkelstein1 :

Andela’s journey to develop Africa’s most talented technologists

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4 years

Spark is making Juneteenth (6/19) a company holiday. A day we'll spend reflecting, volunteering, and further educating ourselves. We're proud to follow our companies like Twitter and Glossier that have already taken this step.

#HellaJuneteenth 2020

Thank you for making the celebration of Juneteenth a global movement. We continue to push for this special holiday to be recognized fully in perpetuity.

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@sparkcapital

7 years

Coming soon to a podcast near you: @karaswisher and @bijan . 🤓

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@sparkcapital

6 years

Great insights from @nabeel : “Many great startups and career paths started from hobbies, from things that were about pure passion.”

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@sparkcapital

4 years

Congratulations @mpmassaro and team @flywire ! Today, they announced their Series E and the acquisition of Simplee. Both will help them further accomplish their mission of providing seamless, cross-border payments across healthcare, travel, and education.

Flywire Becomes a Unicorn With New Investment From Goldman

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is leading a new funding round for payments startup Flywire. The deal will add $120 million to the company’s coffers and push its valuation to more than $1 billion, the...

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@sparkcapital

3 years

Today’s milestone for @Flywire is many years in the making. We are privileged to have been part of this journey from the beginning as you transformed complex payments for industries from education to healthcare and beyond. Congratulations, Flywire!

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@sparkcapital

7 years

Congrats to @cybereason on their $100 million Series D 🎉 It's been a privilege to be your partner on this journey.

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@sparkcapital

4 years

Thank you, @Basti and @Postmates . We are honored to have been on this journey with you since 2014. Congratulations on joining forces with @Uber .

Thank you, Postmates

I met Bastian Lehman, CEO and co-founder of Postmates, back in 2013 in their cramped and tiny office in the Mission. At the time, Bastian…

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@sparkcapital

4 years

We are proud to partner with founders @edwardchiu , @kvn_chiu , and the entire @CatalystIO team on their mission to help businesses bring Customer Success to the center of their organization.

Catalyst Raises $25M At $125M Valuation To Grow Its Customer Success Platform

Spark Capital led the round, which comes just nine months after Catalyst closed on a $15 million Series A.

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@sparkcapital

4 years

Congratulations, @CarlosPierretri and the entire @Badi team on launching in NYC! Badi, which is already live in London, Barcelona, Madrid, and Berlin, connects individuals to tenants for easy long-term room rentals.

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@sparkcapital

7 years

Thinking about the great time we had with our community this week. Have a great weekend everyone 😍 #SummerParty

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7 years

Something's happening in enterprise— @bijan talks about why we're into products like @SlackHQ , @trello , @pendoio etc.

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@sparkcapital

2 years

We are very excited to back @bradmenezes and the entire @superblocks team — welcome!

Brad Menezes

@bradmenezes

2 years

Excited to announce @superblocks $37M funding round led by @kleinerperkins , @sparkcapital , @MeritechCapital & Greenoaks alongside world-renowned operators We’re on a mission to save developers 1000s of hours building custom internal tools. A thread 👇

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3 years

We are thrilled to continue to support @Bouazizalex , @copernicussw , and the entire unstoppable @deel team as they continue to enable companies to hire, scale, and pay their teams all over the world. Congratulations on this milestone!

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@Bouazizalex

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I’m so proud & excited to finally share that @deel has raised its Series C of $156 million led by @ycombinator Continuity & co-led by @a16z + @sparkcapital . That’s 🦄 status, captain!!!

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3 years

Today, @talkspace listed on Nasdaq. We’ve worked with Roni and Oren Frank since leading their seed round and later their Series A. We could not be prouder of their unwavering commitment to making therapy accessible to all. On behalf of Spark and @finkelstein1 , congratulations!

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5 years

We're thrilled for the team at @Andela ! 👏👏 An exciting next step in developing Africa's top-tier technology talent

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8 years

Should social media literacy be taught in schools? A discussion on social media's impact on health #FutureofTherapy

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5 years

This headline says it all 👇 @CTRLlabsCo 👏👏

Thomas Reardon and CTRL-Labs are building an API for the brain | TechCrunch

From Elon's Neuralink to Bryan Johnson's Kernel, a new wave of businesses are specifically focusing on ways to access, read and write from the brain.

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4 years

Megan has had an enormous impact on Spark over the past 5 years. We will miss her dearly, but we are thrilled she is staying in the Spark family by joining Niantic as COO. We know she will also have an immense impact in her new role. John and team are lucky to have you!

Megan Quinn

@msquinn

4 years

It is unquestionably an unusual time to make -- let alone share -- a career change. But, I’m deeply grateful to so many, chiefly the entrepreneurs I work with, my partners at @sparkcapital , @JohnHanke and the entire @NianticLabs team.

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Congrats to the founders and teams behind @Affirm , @cartainc , @coinbase , @Marqeta , and @Plaid on making Forbes’ annual Fintech 50 list. We’re proud to be in business with each of you.

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5 years

Excited to announce @remarkablepaper is joining the Spark family! More from @kevinthau :

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5 years

It's been quite a year for @tourlane ! We're thrilled to partner for the next leg of the journey 🚀

Tourlane raises a $47M C round led by Sequoia and Spark Capital | TechCrunch

There still exists an old-fashioned problem in travel: group travel that requires individuals and groups to plan and book personalized, multi-day tours

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7 years

Congrats @mlevchin and team 🚀🙌

Affirm now has 1,000 retail partners | TechCrunch

Today Affirm has announced that it has more than 1,000 merchants signed up to offer its financing options at checkout, helping to reduce the friction around making large purchases and, by extension,...

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We are thrilled to continue to partner with @zachperret and the entire @Plaid team to further their mission of supporting the massive growth in fintech and enabling the next generation of digital financial services.

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8 years

Congrats to @splashthat : Their #odetoplanners video is on @Salesforce 's "6 B2B Holiday Marketing Campaigns We Love"

Top Free Strategic Marketing Resources

Find free strategic marketing resources to help your business match your customers with the products and services they love.

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7 years

Congrats to @orenfrank and the team @talkspace ! 👏🎉 It's been such an honor be on this journey with you. Amazing product and mission.

talkspace

@talkspace

7 years

We're so grateful for the support of such a wonderful community––here's to bringing #therapy to all! #HereToHelp

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"Genius is evenly distributed; opportunity is not. That truth is the driving principle behind @Andela " http://t.co/piTgAVbdJ1 @TechCrunch

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8 years

Welcome to the Spark Capital team @msquinn : Spark Growth growing

Spark Growth growing.

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Congratulations, @Andela , @benchling , @getthemirror , @SmartRentdotcom , and @tray on being named one of the 25 fastest-growing startups most likely to reach a $1 billion valuation by Forbes. We’re proud to be on this journey with each of you.

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We are proud partners of @EmilyWWeiss and the entire team @glossier ! "Emily has helped a generation of consumers feel good about themselves—something the beauty industry has historically failed to do."

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7 years

🚪Get excited🚪 — @finkelstein1 works with @IEX , @mark43 , @Andela and @talkspace to name a few. Ask him your questions tomorrow a.m.!

Product Hunt LIVE

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7 years

Join Alex Finkelstein General Partner at @SparkCapital for a LIVE Chat on April 20 and @finkelstein1 anything 👉

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6 years

We're thrilled to announce our investment in @FullHarvestSF !🍏🎉 Proud to partner with them as they change how the food industry manages surplus produce — creating less waste & more profit for all 🙌 More here from @jmelaskyriazi :

Spark’s investment in Full Harvest

Roughly 20 billion pounds of produce are thrown away at farms each year in the United States alone.

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5 years

“We see this as becoming a universal controller for all your interactions with technology” — @CTRLlabsCo co-founder & CSO Patrick Kaifosh in @Forbes

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8 years

We're thrilled to welcome @Medium into the Spark Capital family. More from @KevinThau :

Our Investment in Medium: Right Tool, Right Network, Right Time

In 2008 I made my first investment in Evan Williams, not with my money, but with my future. I had spent the previous decade working on the…

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6 years

Congrats @IEX ! There's a new stock exchange in town 🙌

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@IEX

6 years

Right now in Times Square: The stock exchange where fairness pays. #FairnessPays

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Today, we're excited to announce our investment in Homelike, the leading marketplace for long-term business apartment rentals in 100+ cities globally (and growing!) 🎉🎉🎉 @thehomelike

Germany's Homelike, an Airbnb-like service focused on longer-term rentals, raises $14M led by Spark...

The success of Airbnb has created a major disruption in how people choose where to stay when they visit other places. Gone are the days of assuming a

techcrunch.com

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"Growth & culture are two sides of the same coin: the key to growing is culture, and the key to culture is hiring. This is why we invest so much time and energy in hiring correctly." 💯👏 @travelperk CEO @avimeir on @twentyminutevc

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6 years

Welcome Spark CEOs & founders to San Francisco! We’re so excited to spend the day talking about building #MagicalProducts with our community.

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7 years

We're excited to announce our investment in @SiFiveInc —a disruptive force in low-cost custom silicon.

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8 years

. @nabeel explains our 'product first' approach and how that lead to investments in @Cruise @oculus & @Postmates

An early investor in Oculus and self-driving cars spots the future in his gut

Nabeel Hyatt made big bets on Oculus and self-driving car company Cruise. This is how he spots the future.

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7 years

What do we look for in early stage companies? Great founders, awesome product + big, kinda crazy audacious ideas.

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7 years

We're very excited to work with @kieroyale and @friedgal . They're building something great.

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3 years

“The opportunity has never been bigger for the company,” says @finkelstein1 , general partner at Spark Capital, which first backed Flywire 11 years ago. Congratulations, team @Flywire , on a monumental week.

Flywire Hits $3.5 Billion Valuation After First Day Of Trading As Fintech IPO Frenzy Continues

Flywire's first day as a public company has pushed its valuation to $3.5 billion.

www.forbes.com

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3 years

Congrats to the Andela team on their latest $200M round.

Startup Andela Bets on Helping Companies Hire Far-Flung IT Staff

Andela uses AI to help employers look beyond Silicon Valley, India, China and other traditional tech hubs for talent and tap a broader range of markets such as Africa and Latin America.

www.wsj.com

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Exciting day for @Talkspace , announcing their Series D and key partnership with UnitedHealth’s @Optum 🙌

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