Venture Capital
Spark Capital
Spark Capital backs early-stage and high-growth companies, typically pre-profit, from San Francisco, CA. It states a focus on software & internet, healthcare & life sciences and financial services.
Regulatory record
How Spark Capital is registered
From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.
| Adviser status | Exempt reporting adviser |
| Regulatory assets under management | Not reported by an ERA |
| Private funds advised | 27 · $16bn gross |
| SEC adviser number | CRD 161231 |
An exempt reporting adviser is not required to report regulatory assets under management, so the blank above means the question was not asked rather than that the answer is unknown. Where a figure exists it is the gross asset value of the private funds the firm advises, which is a different and usually larger measure.
Portfolio
Disclosed holdings
Companies Spark Capital lists on its own website. No investment years are published. 2 have a recorded transaction against them in the deal archive.
| Company | Invested | Years held | Recorded transaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abridge | — | — | — |
| Affirm | — | — | — |
| Air Space Intelligence | — | — | — |
| Anthropic | — | — | — |
| Basepowercompany | — | — | — |
| Baseten | — | — | — |
| Benchling | — | — | — |
| Bot | — | — | — |
| Chainguard | — | — | — |
| Coinbase | — | — | — |
| Cruise | — | — | $80m 2016 |
| Crusoe | — | — | — |
| Ctrl Labs | — | — | — |
| Deel | — | — | — |
| Discord | — | — | — |
| Edison Scientific | — | — | — |
| Enfabrica | — | — | — |
| Flock Safety | — | — | — |
| Generalist AI | — | — | — |
| Inversion Space | — | — | — |
| Kalshi | — | — | — |
| Letsdeel | — | — | — |
| Lightmatter | — | — | — |
| Lumafield | — | — | — |
| Mercury | — | — | — |
| Mirror | — | — | — |
| Niantic | — | — | — |
| Nianticlabs | — | — | — |
| Oculus | — | — | — |
| Optimism | — | — | — |
| Parallel | — | — | — |
| Plaid | — | — | — |
| Profluent | — | — | — |
| Ramp | — | — | — |
| Scale | — | — | — |
| Scale AI | — | — | — |
| Sesame | — | — | — |
| Slack | — | — | — |
| Snap | — | — | — |
| Stoke Space | — | — | — |
| Tumblr | — | — | $10m 2019 |
| — | — | — | |
| Wildtype Foods | — | — | — |
| Zeromatter | — | — | — |
| joinhandshake.com | — | — | — |
| trialspark.com | — | — | — |
Compiled from Spark Capital’s published portfolio page. Where a recorded transaction is shown, that company was the target of a reported deal and has most likely already been realised. Nothing here is represented as being for sale.
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