Fraser Kelton
InvestorGeneral Partner at Spark Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Writes $5M – $15M checks · typically $10M
About
A founder-turned-investor and General Partner at Spark focused on backing technical founders. Previously Head of Product at OpenAI, where he led teams that launched ChatGPT and DALL-E, and earlier co-founded and led an AI startup acquired by Airbnb in 2018.
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These models, they just want to learn https://t.co/Q6qP7S4nZH
Jun 4, 2026 · ♥ 11
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Most AI-in-pharma stories are about going faster. Profluent and Lilly's partnership is a scientific moonshot -- using AI to design large-scale DNA editors for genetic diseases where one-mutation fixes don't work, reaching patients conventional approaches can't https://t.co/TqSg2SMGvL
Apr 28, 2026 · ♥ 8
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There's enough evidence now that it's all going to work just like LLMs. "Will it work?" is the wrong question. "How fast?" and "How to do it faster?" become the questions. https://t.co/OzjOg4zxXV
Apr 2, 2026 · ♥ 18 · ⇄ 2
Invests in
AI & Machine Learning
Experience
- Spark CapitalGeneral Partnercurrent2023 — present
- OpenAIHead of Product2020 — 2023
- AirbnbProduct2018 — 2020San Francisco
- KokoCo-Founder & CEO2014 — 2018New York
- GetGlueCOO & BoD2008 — 2013New York
Shared employers
Also worked at OpenAI70
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Also worked at Airbnb90
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Colleagues at Spark Capital
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