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Spark Capital
Venture Capital · Founded 2005 · San Francisco, United States
VC firm investing and partnering with world-changing in companies
Spark Capital’s biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Spark Capital’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 28 companies where Spark Capital is a named shareholder, worth about $9.2B in estimated equity value.
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 cap tables 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 355 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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USA307
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UK10
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Germany9
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Canada6
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Israel6
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France5
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China3
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India3
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Spain3
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Australia2
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Brazil2
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Norway2
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Enterprise Software80
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Fintech78
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Media44
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Health30
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Marketing30
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Telecom20
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Security18
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Education17
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Food12
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Gaming12
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Real Estate12
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Home Living10
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Series A153
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Series B+113
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Seed98
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Late Growth141
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Breakout Stage132
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Early Growth96
Inside Spark Capital’s portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 355 tracked.
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ClWhere 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 States149
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Israel11
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United Kingdom9
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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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology18
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Harvard University13
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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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University of Cambridge6
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Princeton University5
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business5
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ETH Zurich4
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Georgia Institute of Technology4
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Alphabet | Google17
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology7
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McKinsey & Company6
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Microsoft6
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Bain & Company5
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Bridgewater Associates4
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MIT Media Lab4
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OpenAI4
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Amazon3
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Credit Suisse3
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
Key people at Spark Capital.
