Investor

Spark Capital

65 companies in the founder graph, connected to 298 founders.

Portfolio

65 mapped

Mastra Private YC W25

Enterprise Software ·2025

Abhi Aiyer, Sam Bhagwat, Shane Thomas

Conductor Private YC S24

Enterprise Software ·2024

Benjamin Fichter, Charlie Holtz, Eric Schwartz, Jackson de Campos, Jared Cohen, Seth Besmertnik, Zachary Long

Parallel Private YC W24

Healthcare ·2024

Clint Savage, Parag Agrawal, Paul Lafforgue, Tyler Slater

Base Power Private

Energy & Climate ·2023

Justin Lopas, Zach Dell, Zach Dell Justin Lopas

Adept Private

Artificial Intelligence ·2022

Ashish Vaswani, David Luan, Niki Parmar

Cursor Private

Developer Tools ·2022

Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark, Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif

Anthropic Private 🦄 Unicorn

Artificial Intelligence ·2021

Ben Mann, Benjamin Mann, Chris Olah, Christopher Olah, Daniela Amodei, Dario Amodei, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, Tom Brown, Tom Henighan

Chainguard Private

Cybersecurity ·2021

Dan Lorenc, Kim Lewandowski, Matt Moore, Matthew Moore, Scott Nichols, Ville Aikas

Inversion Space Private YC S21

Industrials & Manufacturing ·2021

Austin Briggs, Justin Fiaschetti

Framework Private

Software & IT ·2020

Albert Marashi, Denver Rayburn, Nirav Patel

Reality Labs Private

Software & IT ·2020

Brendan Iribe, Michael Antonov, Nate Mitchell, Palmer Luckey

Alpaca Private YC W19

Fintech ·2019

Hitoshi Harada, Yoshi Yokokawa

Convex Private YC W19

Enterprise Software ·2019

Blake Meulmester, Charlie Warren, James Cowling, Jamie Turner, Sujay Jayakar

Deel Private YC W19

Fintech ·2019

Alex Bouaziz, Dan Westgarth, Ofer Simon, Shuo Wang

Kalshi Private YC W19

Fintech ·2019

Luana Lara Lopes, Luana Lopes Lara, Tarek Mansour

Optimism Private

Crypto & Web3 ·2019

Ben Jones, Benjamin Jones, Jinglan Wang, Karl Floersch, Kevin Ho

Ramp Private

Fintech ·2019

Eric Glyman, Gene Lee, Karim Atiyeh

Stoke Space Private YC W21

Aerospace & Space ·2019

Andy Lapsa, Tom Feldman

Abridge Private

Healthcare ·2018

Florian Metze, Julia Chapin, Sandeep Konam, Shiv Rao, Shivdev Rao, Zachary Lipton, Zack Lipton

Air Space Intelligence Private

Artificial Intelligence ·2018

Kris Dorosz, Lucas Kukielka, Phillip Buckendorf

Descript Private

Artificial Intelligence ·2017

Andrew Mason

Flock Safety Private YC S17

Government & Nonprofit ·2017

Garrett Langley, Matt Feury, Paige Todd

Mercury Private

Fintech ·2017

Immad Akhund, Jason Zhang, Max Tagher, Max Tazhitdinov, Max Tazhnudinov

Formation Bio Private

Healthcare ·2016

Benjamine Liu, Kit Dobyns, Linhao Zhang, Mary Rozenman

Mirror Private

Hardware & Electronics ·2016

Brynn Putnam

Scale AI Private YC S16

Artificial Intelligence ·2016

Alexandr Wang, Lucy Guo

Slite Private YC W18

Enterprise Software ·2016

Christophe Pasquier, Pierre Renaudin

Discord Private

Gaming ·2015

Jason Citron, Stan Vishnevskiy, Stanislav Vishnevskiy

Instabase Private 🦄 Unicorn

Enterprise Software ·2015

Anant Bhardwaj

Cruise Acquired YC W14

Automotive & Mobility ·2013

Dan Kan, Daniel Kan, Kyle Vogt

Handshake Private

HR & Recruiting ·2013

Ben Christensen, Garrett Lord, Joseph Poon, Scott Ringwelski

Plaid Private 🦄 Unicorn

Fintech ·2013

William Hockey, Zach Perret

Affirm Public

Fintech ·2012

Alex Rampell, Jeff Kaditz, Jeffrey Kaditz, Max Levchin, Nathan Gettings

Benchling Private YC S12

Biotech & Pharma ·2012

Ashu Singhal, Ashutosh Singhal, Cheng Kang, Cornelius Chen, Sajith Wickramasekara

Carta Private

Fintech ·2012

Henry Ward, Manu Kumar

Coinbase Public YC S12

Fintech ·2012

Brian Armstrong, Fred Ehrsam

InVision Private

Developer Tools ·2011

Ben Nadel, Clark Valberg

Postmates Acquired

Logistics & Supply Chain ·2011

Bastian Lehmann, Sam Street, Sean Plaice

Snap Public

Media & Entertainment ·2011

Bobby Murphy, Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown

Niantic Private

Gaming ·2010

John Hanke, Phil Keslin

Warby Parker Private

Retail & E-commerce ·2010

Andrew Hunt, Andy Hunt, Dave Gilboa, David Gilboa, Jeff Raider, Jeffrey Raider, Neil Blumenthal

Slack Acquired 🦄 Unicorn

Enterprise Software ·2009

Cal Henderson, Eric Costello, Lidiane Jones (CEO), Serguei Mourachov, Stewart Butterfield

Wealthfront Private

Fintech ·2008

Andy Rachleff, Dan Carroll

Tumblr Acquired

Media & Entertainment ·2007

David Karp, Marco Arment

Twitter Acquired

Media & Entertainment ·2006

Biz Stone, Esther Crawford, Ethan Sutin, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass

Wayfair Public

Retail & E-commerce ·2002

Niraj Shah, Steve Conine

Alloy Robotics Private

Data & Analytics

Adam Kirk, Ajay Kulkarni, Alberto Taiuti, Alex Yu, Alexandra Mysoor, Alexis Rivas, Amit Jain, Andreas Blattmann, Ben Borodach, Ben Wiley, Bilgehan Avser, Bill Banyai, Brian Huppi, Chad DePue, Charles Naut, Chi Zhang, Daniel Edrisian, Daniel Falabella, Daniel Marcous, Daniel Reid Cahn, Danny Sheridan, Dar Mehta, David Singleton, Deep Singhvi, Dennis Xu, Dennis Zax, Devansh Pandey, Edwin Chen, Farooq Malik, Felix M. Schlegel, Ficus Kirkpatrick, Finn Brown, Galen Mead, George McLean, Gina Gotthilf, Gregg Mojica, Guy Gur-Ari, Hannah Wolfe, Hugh Tamassia, Hugo Barra, Igor Ostrovsky, Ishan Mukherjee, Itamar Rocha, Jack McIntire, Jared Quincy Davis, Jarred Sumner, Jemuel Joseph, Joe Harris, John Guibas, John O'Nolan, Jon Miller, Jorge Mazal, Jorn van Dijk, Kelsie Zhao, Kevin Moody, Koen Bok, Leon Chen, Linda He, Marvin von Hagen, Matt Watson, Mike Freedman, Nandini Mullaji, Neil Parikh, Neil Raina, Nicholas Jitkoff, Nick Perrett, Nim Ravid, Parker Ence, Patrick Esser, Paul Leutheuser, Richie Serna, Ricky Knox, Robin Rombach, Ryan Smith, Sam Franklin, Sam Levy, Sara Du, Sean Donovan, Sean Dorje, Shizu Okusa, Theo Margolius, Tim Chaves, Tim MacGougan, Tomer Cohen, Uma Roy, Varun Mehta, Xav Kearney, Zach Kirsch

Baseten Private

Developer Tools

Amir Haghighat, Pankaj Gupta, Phil Howes, Philip Howes, Phillip Howes, Tuhin Srivastava

CTRL-labs Private

Hardware & Electronics

Patrick Kaifosh, Thomas Reardon, Tim Machado

Crusoe Private

Energy & Climate

Chase Lochmiller, Cully Cavness

Edison Private

Artificial Intelligence

Andrew White, Sam Rodriques

Enfabrica Private

Semiconductors

Rochan Sankar, Shrijeet Mukherjee

Generalist AI Private

Artificial Intelligence

Andrew Barry, Andy Zeng, Pete Florence

Granola Private

Artificial Intelligence

Chris Pedregal, Christopher Pedregal, Sam Stephenson

Lightmatter Private

Semiconductors

Darius Bunandar, Nicholas Harris, Nick Harris, Thomas Graham

Lumafield Private

Software & IT

Andreas Bastian, Eduardo Torrealba, Kevin Cedrone, Ric Fulop, Scott Johnston

MatX Private

Artificial Intelligence

Mike Gunter, Reiner Pope, Reiner Pope Mike Gunter

Profluent Private

Artificial Intelligence

Alexander Meeske, Ali Madani

Qdrant Private

Developer Tools

Andre Zayarni, Andrey Vasnetsov

Sesame AI Private

Artificial Intelligence

Ankit Kumar, Brendan Iribe, Ryan Brown

Standard Intelligence Private

Artificial Intelligence

Devansh Pandey, Galen Mead

The Bot Company Private

Robotics

Kyle Vogt, Luke Holoubek, Paril Jain

Trello Private

Productivity

Joel Spolsky, Michael Pryor

Wildtype Private

Food & Agriculture

Arye Elfenbein, Justin Kolbeck, Justin Kolbeck Arye Elfenbein

Zeromatter Private

Robotics

Ian Glow