Spark Capital — 2026 Investments

Synera provides an agentic AI automation platform for engineers, aimed at helping engineering organizations automate time-consuming processes and product development workflows.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

DMDr. Moritz Maier(Founder)inDSDaniel Siegel(Founder)inSMSebastian Möller(Founder)inMoritz Maier(Founder)

Co-investorsCHCherry VenturesBMBMW i VenturesDEDeepTech & Climate FondsISIsaiISISAI GestionUVUVC Partners+2 more

Baseten provides AI inference and infrastructure services that optimize model deployment, serving, and orchestration across the full stack.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US

TSTuhin Srivastava(Founder)inAHAmir Haghighat(Founder)inPHPhil Howes(Founder)inPGPankaj Gupta(Founder)inDanielle Herzberg(Executive Officer)Dannie Herzberg(President (Go-to-Market & Operations))in

Board seatWRWill Reed· per SEC Form D

Co-investors0101 AdvisorsAIAI FundALAlpha PartnersASAspire11ATAthletic VenturesBABattery Ventures+32 more

Cover Genius provides embedded, white-labeled insurance and protection products through a single API, with underwriting and local licenses across 60+ countries and all 50 US states.

FintechInsurTechSaaSNew York, US

AJAngus James Ridley McDonald(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)CBChris Bayley(Founder)inAMAmir Massoudi(Executive Officer, Promoter)inLMLexie Marchuk(Executive Officer, Promoter)inAngus McDonald(Founder)

BoardTom Leone(Director, Promoter)

Board seatJKJames Kuklinski· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsAFAfterWork VenturesDADawn CapitalG G SquaredGLGlitch CapitalKIKing River CapitalLELeo Capital Ventures+2 more

Generalist develops embodied foundation models for robots, focusing on dexterity and enabling machines to intelligently interact with the physical world.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRoboticsBay Area, Boston, US

AZAndy Zeng(Founder)inPFPete Florence(Founder)inAndrew Barry(Founder)in

BoardRobert Toews(Director)ECEllen Chisa(Director)in

Board seatFraser Kelton· per SEC Form D

Co-investors8V8VCBOboldstart venturesINInspired CapitalINInterwoven VenturesLMLMNT VenturesNONorwest Venture Partners+11 more

Computer chip manufacturer building high-performance, cost-efficient platforms optimized for large-scale AI workloads.

Covina, US

Michial Gunter(Executive Officer, Director)RPReiner Pope(Founder)inMike Gunter(Founder)inReiner Pope Mike Gunter(Founder)

Board seatYasmin Razavi· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsAIAIspace VenturesHAHarpoon VenturesHOHomebrewOUOutset CapitalREResonance VCSVSV Angel+2 more

Zum provides cloud-based software and logistics optimization for school bus transportation, serving school districts to improve route efficiency, vehicle utilization, safety transparency, and costs.

EdTechLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationSaaSRedwood City, US

RNRitu Narayan(Founder)inVivek Garg(Founder)inAbhishek Garg(Executive Officer)inDaniel Berenbaum(Executive Officer)in

BoardBSBryan Schreier(Director)inArif Lakhani(Director)

Board seatNabeel Hyatt· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsANAngelPadBMBMW i VenturesCLClearvision VenturesCLClimate InvestmentDNDnx VenturesFUFundersClub+15 more

Cadence organizes virtual team-building events for distributed organizations.

Enterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US

MDMelissa Du(Founder)inEPEric Park(Founder)inSteph Hon(Founder)Nikhil Patel(Engineer)

Co-investorsMAMartin VenturesY Y Combinator2.2.12 AngelsAMAmplify PartnersARArgoDTDTX Ventures+12 more

Cadence delivers remote clinical monitoring and proactive care for people with chronic diseases, enabling continuous physician oversight of patients managing conditions at home.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech

Co-investorsB B Capital GroupB4B4 CapitalCOCoatue ManagementCOCorewell Health VenturesGEGeneral CatalystMAMartin Ventures

Cadence Translate provides interpretation and translation services by matching businesses with professional linguists from a network of over 2,500 translators based globally.

Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS

JRJonathan RechtmaninMCMatt CongerinPKPhil Kohn

Co-investors50500 GlobalB B CapitalCOCoatue ManagementCOCorewell Health VenturesGEGeneral CatalystTHThrive Capital

UK defence startup building low-cost interceptor missiles and solid rocket motors to counter drones and missiles.

SBSteven Barrett(Founder)inJHJunaid Hussain(Founder)inCSChris Sylvan(Founder)

Co-investors7P7percent VenturesACAccelENEntropy Industrial CapitalEXExpeditionsLULux CapitalREredalpine+7 more

CivilGrid consolidates thousands of datasets on underground utilities, land rights, geotech conditions, and other site data into a real-time map for civil engineers, utility operators, and construction teams.

Construction TechData & InfrastructureGovTechSaaS

Josh(Co-founder)Brandon(Co-founder)Brandon Cohen(Founder)Josh Mackanic(Founder)

Co-investors2.2.12 AngelsA*A*AFAfore CapitalANAnorak VenturesBUBURNT ISLAND VENTURESENEnergy Impact Partners+14 more

Convex Finance is a DeFi protocol that lets users lock CVX tokens to participate in governance and boost rewards across platforms including Curve, f(x) Protocol, and Frax.

Crypto & Web3Fintech

Co-investorsBLBloccelerate VCDEDeepTech VenturesSOSoma CapitalANAndreessen HorowitzETEtna LabsINInsight Partners

Cyera is an AI-powered data security platform that helps organizations discover, classify, and secure their data across any environment.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & Infrastructure

TBTamar Bar-Ilan(Co-founder, CTO)inYSYotam Segev(Co-founder, CEO)inYIYonatan Itai(Co-founder, VP of R&D)in

Co-investorsACAccelARArcherman CapitalARArtisanal VenturesCOCoatue ManagementCRCRV (Charles River Ventures)CYCyberstarts+19 more

Embedded Insurance is an insurtech company that integrates insurance quoting and coverage into digital customer experiences, offering a data-driven alternative to traditional comparison shopping.

Park City, US

JHJames Hall(Founder & Executive Chair)inAsh Zaki(Director)Mona Elliason(Director)Adrian Hummel(Co-Founder & Chief Administrative Officer, Secretary, Embedded Insurance, Inc.)Mungo Wilson(Director)Michael Dunlap(Chief Executive Officer)

Co-investorsHEHedosophiaVIVista Equity Partners

Eureka Security (now part of Tenable) offers data security posture management (DSPM) integrated into a cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) to discover, classify, and prioritize sensitive data risks across multi-cloud environments.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & Infrastructure

LHLiat Hayun(Founder)in

Co-investorsVAVaranaYLYL VenturesCOCollider VenturesUTUTEC

Gambit builds an adaptive intelligence software platform for autonomous systems that enables teams to deploy and evolve autonomous behaviors across multiple hardware platforms.

AI & Machine LearningDefense TechRoboticsValley Village, US

JGJosh Giegel(Founder)in

BoardGRGreg Reichow(Director)in

Co-investorsMAMana VenturesNENext Frontier CapitalRIRiphean InvestmentsCYCyberstartsKLKleiner PerkinsECEclipse Ventures

Gambit Security offers Balens, a platform that continuously maps infrastructure resources into business applications to reveal dependencies, backup coverage, and recovery gaps across cloud, infrastructure-as-code, and backups.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise Software

AGAlon Gromakov(Founder)in

Co-investorsKLKleiner PerkinsCYCyberstartsEXExpeditions

Sequen offers an API-first platform that powers search, recommendations, and chat using a shared model that learns across customers without exposing their data.

AI & Machine LearningClimate TechDeep TechE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareMarketplacesRoboticsSaaSSector Agnostic

ISIan Sigalow(Founder)inGLGrant LaFontaine(CEO & Co-Founder)LHLogan Head(Co-Founder)Alexandre LeBrun(CEO & Co-founder)YLYann LeCunSaining Xie(Chief Science Officer)

Co-investorsRERenaissance Venture CapitalAMAMD VenturesANAndreessen HorowitzCRCRV (Charles River Ventures)DCDCVC (Data Collective)EMEmergence Capital Partners+11 more

Jamstack builds audio hardware for musicians, including an attachable smartphone amplifier, with a focus on making playing, creating, and consuming music more accessible and social.

ConsumerCreator EconomyHardwareMedia & Entertainment

Chris Prendergast(Founder and CEO)

Co-investorsGEGeorgian Angel NetworkANAndreessen HorowitzBEBessemer Venture PartnersBOBond Capital ManagementEQEQT VenturesINInsight Partners+3 more

K2 Therapeutics is a biotech company that identifies innovative drug assets and develops them into medicines using a hub-and-spoke model with cross-regional clinical trials.

BiotechHealthtech

Ying Huang, Ph.D.(Chief Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsMPMPM BioImpactALAlpine Space VenturesALAltimeter CapitalCACapitalGICICONIQKLKleiner Perkins+4 more

The page is an online gambling/betting operator ("OK9") targeting Vietnamese players, offering sports betting, online casino, slots, fish-shooting games, lottery, and card games.

Deep TechHardwareSpace TechWest Hollywood, US

Neeldev Kunjur(Executive Officer, Director)Karandev Kunjur(Executive Officer, Director)KKKaran Kunjur(Founder)inNKNeel Kunjur(Founder)in

Co-investorsALAlpine Space VenturesALAlso CapitalASAsymmetric Capital PartnersCACapitalGEAEarthrise VenturesFIFirst Round Capital+22 more

Latent builds software to optimize the prescription fulfillment process for health systems, enabling faster access to medications for patients.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechInsurTechSan Francisco, US

RJRishabh Jain(Founder)inSSSri Somasundaram(Founder)inRish Jain(Founder)Sriram Somasundaram(Founder)

Co-investorsAVavraCOConvictionGEGeneral CatalystMCMcKesson VenturesTRTRANSFORMATION CAPITALY Y Combinator+4 more

Launch Tennessee is a nonprofit public-private partnership that invests in startups, supports researchers commercializing research, and connects Tennessee's entrepreneurial ecosystem through networks and events.

Developer ToolsGovTechImpact & Social GoodSector AgnosticNashville, US

LCLindsey Cox(Chief Executive Officer)in

Co-investorsJOJohnson Venture PartnersOUOUTPOST VENTURES

Lark Hotels is a hotel management company that partners with independent, design-driven boutique hotels across America, providing operational expertise, strategic guidance, and support from pre-opening through ongoing management.

PropTechTravel & HospitalityKennebunkport, US

RBRob Blood(Founder)inYury Yakubchyk(Cofounder)

Co-investorsCOComcast VenturesDEDERIVE VENTURESCACaffeinated CapitalCPCP VenturesFOFounders FundGLGlobal Founders Capital+11 more

Light is an API-first platform that lets companies offer their own branded, embedded electricity plans and virtual power plants without handling regulatory or operational complexity, acting as the regulated electricity provider and managing billing, support, and collections.

CleantechClimate TechEnergySaaSAustin, US

Baker Shogry(Co-founder)inACAdam Compain(Co-founder)in

Co-investorsGIGigascale CapitalMAMatrixMIMischiefACACTivate CapitalBOBoxGroup

Lumilens develops photonics-based optical interconnect technology to support the scaling of AI infrastructure and data centers, addressing the limits of electrical and legacy optical interconnects for scale-out and scale-up architectures.

Deep TechHardwareSemiconductorsSan Jose, US

RKRitesh Kapahi(Founder)inAnkur Singla(Founder)Ted Schmidt(Founder)

Co-investorsAIAIspace VenturesALAlkeon InnovationBABain Capital VenturesMAMayfield FundMVMVP VenturesRERedpoint Ventures+2 more

Mercury is an investor database listing venture capital investors and their sector focus areas.

Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSector AgnosticSan Francisco, US

IAImmad Akhund(Founder)inJZJason Zhang(Founder)inMax Tagher(Founder)inMax Tazhitdinov(Founder)Max Tazhnudinov(Founder)

BoardTom Brown(Director)

Co-investors50500 GlobalANAndreessen HorowitzANAngel Collective Opportunity FundATAtaraxia CapitalBEBetter Tomorrow VenturesBUBuilders + Backers+52 more

MySQL is an open source relational database used by web-based applications and deployed across web, cloud, mobile, and embedded systems.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Allan Larsson(Founder)David Axmark(Founder)MWMichael Widenius(Founder)in

Co-investorsBABalderton CapitalOPOpenOceanPRPresidio VenturesBEBenchmarkFIFirstMark CapitalGVGV (Google Ventures)+2 more

Nomad is a Brazilian fintech that lets non-resident Brazilians open US bank accounts, use a Nomad Visa debit card, and access US investment products through registered US brokerage and advisory entities.

ConsumerFintechTravel & HospitalityKing George, US

LVLucas Vargas(Co-founder & CEO)inGabriel Pinto(Co-founder & CTO)inPSPatrick Sigrist(Co-founder)inEduardo Haber(Co-founder)inMarcos Nader(Co-founder)inOLEKSANDR MOKROHUZ(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

Co-investorsABAbstract VenturesGRGrupo Globo - Mídia e ConteúdoMOMONASHEESNONorte VenturesPRPropel Venture PartnersPRProvence Partners+1 more

Novellia is a health platform that consolidates fragmented medical records so patients can access a complete view of their health data and share it with care teams and researchers.

ConsumerDigital HealthHealthtechNew York City, US

SSShashi Shankar(Co-founder)in

Co-investorsBLBling CapitalTMTMV

Oratomic builds fault-tolerant quantum computers using ultra-efficient error correction with light and atoms.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechQuantum Computing

Dolev Bluvstein(Founder)inMadelyn CaininManuel Endres(Founder)

BoardJohn Preskill

Co-investorsBABain Capital VenturesGEGeneral CatalystINIndex VenturesKHKhosla VenturesARARCH Venture PartnersBEBezos Expeditions+3 more

Parallel builds infrastructure for AI agents to access, reason over, and transact with web data through declarative interfaces and open, verifiable markets.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US

PAParag Agrawal(Founder)inTravers Nisbet(Founder)in

Co-investorsABAbstract VenturesAUAudaciousFIFirst Round CapitalINIndex VenturesKHKhosla VenturesKLKleiner Perkins+6 more

RadixArk builds open-source AI infrastructure for large-scale model training and inference, including the SGLang inference engine and Miles reinforcement learning framework.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep Tech

BZBanghua Zhu(Founder)in

Co-investorsACAccelHOHOF CapitalSKSky9 CapitalTRTranspose Platform ManagementVOVocal VenturesAMAMD Ventures+6 more

Rune Energy develops solar power systems using an integrated approach spanning PV arrays, DC power delivery, integration architecture, and software and controls.

CleantechEnergyHardwarePalo Alto, US

Varun Palivela(Founder)in

Co-investorsCUCube Infrastructure ManagersLELevel VenturesLOLowercarbon CapitalSISilicon Catalyst

Shepherd combines underwriting expertise with technology to modernize commercial insurance risk selection, pricing, and servicing.

Construction TechFintechInsurTechSan Francisco, US

MMMo Mahallawy(Founder/CTO)inJLJustin Levine(Founder)inLeslie Ruiz(Recruiter)Carly(Recruiter)

Co-investorsEREra VenturesONOn DeckY Y CombinatorAIAirAngelsCOCostanoa VenturesGRGreenlight Re+4 more

Sigma Computing provides a warehouse-native analytics platform that lets business teams build, deploy, and govern AI applications on live data warehouse data without moving it, using spreadsheet-style input tables, embedded agents, and automated actions.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Robert Woolen(Director)RWRob Woollen(Founder)inJFJason Frantz(Founder)inMPMike Palmer(CEO)inCLChristina Liu(CFO)inEDEran Davidov(SVP Engineering)in

Co-investorsAVAvenir Growth CapitalK5K5 GlobalNENewView CapitalPRPrinceville CapitalALAltimeter CapitalALAltimeter Venture Partners+5 more

SIGMA manufactures water infrastructure products including fittings, restraints, castings, and enclosures for municipal and utility applications.

Advanced ManufacturingCleantechConstruction TechHardwareLogistics & Supply ChainNew Materials

Victor Pais(Founder)Siddharth Bhattacharji(Founder)in

Co-investorsWIWind Point PartnersALAltimeter CapitalAVAvenir Growth CapitalDADatabricks VenturesK5K5 GlobalNENewView Capital+4 more

SixtyFour provides AI agents that conduct deep research on people and companies by autonomously gathering and cross-referencing data from multiple sources including official records and the web.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

SSSaarth Shah(CEO)inCPChristopher Price(COO)inHashim Khawaja(Founding Engineer)TTTrevor Tuttle(MTS)inHenry Wang(Founding Engineer)Vagmin Viswanathan(AI Engineering)

Co-investorsFOFoundation CapitalY Y Combinator46468 CapitalAIAirAngelsHOHomebrewLILightspeed Venture Partners+3 more

A research company building general-purpose AI models designed to explore and learn like humans, including a computer action model that can navigate websites, perform CAD modeling sequences, and drive a car in the real world.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRoboticsSan Francisco, US

GMGalen Mead(Founder)DPDevansh Pandey(Founder)in

BoardSHSonya Huang(Director)in

Co-investorsSESequoia CapitalABAbstract VenturesTRTranspose Platform Management

Stoke Space develops fully reusable rockets for space transportation and mobility services.

Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechHardwareSpace TechSeattle, US

ALAndy Lapsa(Founder)inTFTom Feldman(Founder)inKHKelly Hennig(Executive Officer)inSula Bondaruk(Recruiter)Marla Nielsen(Recruiting Coordinator)Chantal Penton(Recruiter)

Co-investorsABAbbhi CapitalACAcequia Capital (AceCap)AFAF WPartnersATATEL VenturesAUAurelia FoundryBABalerion Space Ventures+61 more

Interaction is building Poke.com.

Sector Agnostic

Marvin von Hagen(Founder)inFMFelix M. Schlegel(Founder)in

Co-investorsEAEarlybird Venture CapitalGEGeneral CatalystZ-Z-FellowsBEBek VenturesCOCory LevyFRFred Ehrsam+5 more

xCures builds an AI platform that assembles and structures fragmented medical records into organized, decision-ready clinical data for healthcare organizations.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDigital HealthHealthtechOakland, US

MNMika Newton(Chief Executive Officer)inGKGlenn Kramer(Chief Technology Officer)inKWKenny Wong(Chief Product Officer)in

Co-investorsCICivilization Ventures Management, LlcHAHarmonix FundHAHarvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New YorkHEHealthtech CapitalINInnovius CapitalLALauder Partners+6 more

You.com provides Web Search APIs that give AI agents and large language models access to real-time, cited web data, addressing training cutoffs and hallucinations.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software

RSRichard Socher(Founder)inATAlex Triplett(Chief Operating Officer)inSaahil Jain(Chief Technology Officer)inSSSaurabh Sharma(Chief Product Officer)inATAlper Tekin(President of Search)inJLJing Lee(Vice President of Finance and Operations)in

Co-investorsAIAIX VenturesALAlumni VenturesARARA NEA Ventures (Brand: Dmz.Xyz)BRBreyer CapitalCHChamaeleonCOCox Enterprises+29 more