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Spark Capital
Venture Capital · Founded 2005 · San Francisco, United States
Spark Capital’s biggest current holdings.
Spark Capital is a named shareholder in 28 companies. Dealroom estimates those stakes are worth about $9.9B in total — the disclosed percentage × each company’s latest valuation. The 12 biggest are below, each sized by that estimate.
Deel
$1.6B
9.5% of $17.3B
BaseTen
$1.2B
9% of $13.0B
Carta
$851M
11.5% of $7.4B
Plaid
$760M
9.5% of $8.0B
Discord
$675M
4.5% of $15.0B
SiFive
$456M
12.5% of $3.6B
Showing the 12 largest of 28 disclosed direct holdings.
6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Spark Capital’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Spark Capital also appears inside investor groups in Anthropic, Benchling, ClipboardHealth, Flock Safety, Kalshi, Mercury, Outreach, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →
Spark Capital’s biggest exits.
Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Spark Capital’s transaction record.
Where Spark Capital’s portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 356 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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USA313
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UK10
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Germany8
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Canada6
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Israel6
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France4
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Spain4
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India3
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Australia2
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Brazil2
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Norway2
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British Virgin Islands1
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Fintech81
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Enterprise Software79
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Media47
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Health30
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Marketing30
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Security20
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Telecom20
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Education17
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Real Estate13
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Food12
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Gaming12
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Home Living10
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Series A149
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Series B+109
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Seed94
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Late Growth141
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Breakout Stage132
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Early Growth100
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Mature1
Inside Spark Capital’s portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 356 tracked.
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BeWhere Spark Capital’s portfolio founders come from.
200 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.
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United States151
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Israel11
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United Kingdom8
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Netherlands5
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Canada4
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Switzerland3
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Argentina2
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British Virgin Islands2
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Spain2
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Australia1
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Harvard University13
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology13
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Stanford University12
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Carnegie Mellon University7
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University of California, Berkeley7
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Princeton University6
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University of Cambridge6
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business5
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Cornell University4
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Duke University4
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Alphabet | Google18
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Microsoft8
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology6
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McKinsey & Company6
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Bain & Company5
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OpenAI4
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Amazon3
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Bridgewater Associates3
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Credit Suisse3
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Deutsche Bank3
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
Key people at Spark Capital.
