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Spark Capital

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Spark Capital is a venture fund based in Boston, Massachusetts. Our investment focus is on the conflux of the media, entertainment and technology industries. Over the last decade, telecom, wireless, and cable operators have spent enormous amounts of capital building up their broadband infrastructure. The next decade will be spent monetizing this infrastructure. Spark Capital hopes to exploit this opportunity by investing in companies that it believes will benefit from the rapid transformation of media and content driven by innovative technologies and evolving business models.

Milestones

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  Spark Capital invested in Timehop. (1/1/11)
  Posted 1/18/12 at 4:59pm
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  Spark Capital invested in Timehop. (1/22/12)
  Posted 1/24/12 at 1:07pm via techcrunch.com
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  Spark Capital invested in Academia.edu. (11/30/11)
  Posted 11/30/11 at 6:11pm via techcrunch.com
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  Spark Capital invested in FitnessKeeper. (11/21/11)
  Posted 11/21/11 at 6:45pm via techcrunch.com
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  Spark Capital invested in Sincerely. (10/26/11)
  Posted 10/26/11 at 6:24pm via techcrunch.com
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  Spark Capital invested in Tumblr. (9/26/11)
  Posted 9/26/11 at 6:19pm via finsmes.com
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  Spark Capital invested in Skillshare. (8/16/11)
  Posted 8/17/11 at 3:17am via nytimes.com
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  Spark Capital invested in peerTransfer. (8/15/11)
  Posted 8/15/11 at 5:55pm via techcrunch.com
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  Spark Capital invested in Foursquare. (6/24/11)
  Posted 6/24/11 at 6:29pm via techcrunch.com
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  Spark Capital invested in Wayfair. (6/21/11)
  Posted 6/21/11 at 7:33pm via masshightech.com
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  Spark Capital invested in OnSwipe. (6/2/11)
  Posted 6/5/11 at 5:53pm via techcrunch.com
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  Spark Capital invested in Group Commerce. (5/12/11)
  Posted 5/12/11 at 7:13pm via businessinsider.com
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  Spark Capital invested in txteagle. (4/5/11)
  Posted 4/4/11 at 9:41pm via masshightech.com
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  Spark Capital invested in Adap.tv. (3/28/11)
  Posted 3/28/11 at 2:53pm
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  Spark Capital invested in Stack Exchange. (3/8/11)
  Posted 3/9/11 at 5:04am via techcrunch.com
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  Spark Capital invested in Kik Interactive. (3/7/11)
  Posted 3/7/11 at 6:47pm via techcrunch.com

Investments

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1. Spark Capital raises $360M for second media fund (venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. Spark Capital Raises New Fund (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
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4. Spark Capital Launches Seed Funding Program Start@Spark (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. techcrunch.com [edit]
6. Academia.edu Raises $4.5 Million To Help Researchers Share Their Scholarly Papers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. RunKeeper Raises $10 Million From Spark Capital, Steve Case, And OATV (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Sincerely Raises $3 Million To Deliver Real-World Postcards, Holiday Cards On The Way (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Tumblr Raises $85M in Funding (finsmes.com) []
10. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
11. Skillshare Raises $3.1 Million to Turn Everyone Into Teachers (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
12. PeerTransfer Raises $7.5 Million From Spark, Accel, And Maveron For Simple Payment Solution For Students (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Foursquare Closes $50M at a $600M Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. CSN Stores adds $165M VC funding to bootstrapped strategy (masshightech.com) [edit]
15. Spark, Lightbank And Yuri Milner Get In On OnSwipe’s $5M ‘Series Awesome’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. NYC Startup Group Commerce Raises An Additional $10 Million And Says It Could Have Raised More (businessinsider.com) [edit]
17. Eagletxt raises $8.5M with Spark Capital (masshightech.com) [edit]
18. Citation Needed [add]
19. Stack Overflow, Now Stack Exchange Inc, Raises $12M From Union Square Ventures And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. Mobile Messaging Startup Kik Raises $8M; Launches Group Chat And Photo Sharing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. Vurve Raises Another $4.5 Million To Give Businesses “Advertising On Autopilot” (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. Boxee Raises $16.5 Million For Its Vision For The "Future Of TV" (techcrunch.com) [edit]
23. Storenvy Finds A Number Of Impressive Buyers For Its $1.5 Million Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. Sensr.net Raises $1.5M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
25. ETORO COMPLETES FUNDING ROUND OF $8.3 MILLION LED BY SPARK CAPITAL (freshnews.com) [edit]
26. OnSwipe Raises $1M for Insanely Simple Tablet Publishing Platform (jasonlbaptiste.com) [edit]
27. Gaming Site OMGPOP Raises $10.1 Million, Plans Acquisitions (techcrunch.com) [edit]
28. FitOrbit Gains $3.2 Million To Help You Lose Pounds (techcrunch.com) [edit]
29. AdKeeper Inc. Secures $35 Million in Series B Funding Led by Oak Investment Partners (businesswire.com) [edit]
30. TechStars [edit]
31. Svpply is a Social Shopping Site With a Funny Name, Good Buzz and a New Funding Round (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) [edit]
32. What’s New At Tumblr: Funding, Hires, Office, Board Member, And A Focus On Fashion (techcrunch.com) []
33. Altius Education Raises $18.6M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
34. SEC D (caipssvumlwq.com) [edit]
35. “Stealth” Advertising Startup AK Networks Raises $8 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
36. AdMeld Raises $15 Million Round; Time Warner Among New Backers (paidcontent.org) [edit]
37. Triggit Raises $4.2 Million For Its Demand Side Ad Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
38. Semantic Web Startup Inform Technologies Lands $4 Million, New CMO (techcrunch.com) [edit]
39. Union Square, Spark Capital Double Tumblr’s Funding To $10 Million Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/20/tumblr-funding/#ixzz0lf32gno4 (techcrunch.com) []
40. Gdgt Raises New Financing with New Concept (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
41. IPWireless (ipwireless.com) [edit]
42. Aviary Raises $7 Million From Spark And Jeff Bezos To Crush Adobe Online (ADBE, AMZN) (businessinsider.com) [edit]
43. AltAssets (altassets.com) [edit]
44. Twitter (blog.twitter.com) []
45. Altius lands $8M to launch accredited online colleges (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
46. Verivue streams $20M straight to coffers in latest round (masshightech.com) [edit]
47. techcrunch.com [edit]
48. Boxee Watches $6 Million More In Funding Stream In (techcrunch.com) [edit]
49. ‘How To’ Video Site 5min Raises An Extra $7.5 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
50. Ad Optimizer AdMeld Raises $8 Million, Opens UK Operations (techcrunch.com) [edit]
51. SendMe nabs another $12 million for mobile entertainment content (venturebeat.com) [edit]
52. Twitter Raises $35 Million Series C From Benchmark and IVP, Others (techcrunch.com) []
53. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) []
54. Boxee raisted 4m Today (vccafe.com) [edit]
55. Industry Moves: AdMeld Taps Former FIM Exec Barrett As CEO, Secures New Funding (admeld.com) [edit]
56. Video Ad Platform Adap.tv Raises Another $13 Million (sociableblog.com) [edit]
57. Verified Identity Pass, Steve Brill's Airport Security Company, Raises $44.4 Million (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
58. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
59. We’ve raised a third round of funding (bugblogger.com) [edit]
60. VeriVue Picks up $40M For Video On Demand (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
61. Iminlikewithyou Gets VC Cash For New Game (gigaom.com) [edit]
62. Veoh Raises Another $30 Million From Intel Capital, Adobe, and Gordon Crawford (techcrunch.com) [edit]
63. Twitter Announces Their Funding, Calls Itself A Communication Utility (techcrunch.com) []
64. Lonely No More: Lonelygirl15 Production Company EQAL Gets $5 Million Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
65. techcrunch.com [edit]
66. biz.yahoo.com [edit]
67. Next New Networks - $15 million From Velocity Interactive Group And Goldman Sachs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
68. TechCrunch [edit]
69. Inform Technologies Raises $15M For Big Media Site Tools (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
70. techcrunch.com [edit]
71. techcrunch.com [edit]
72. http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/10/tumblr-funded-750k-vimeo.html (alleyinsider.com) []
73. Intune Networks (intunenetworks.com) [edit]
74. KickApps Secures Series B Funding to Extend Leadership in Hosted Social Media Platform Market (kickapps.com) [edit]
75. Veoh Goes for the Big Money (newteevee.com) [edit]
76. Mobile Audio/Video Streaming Service Buzzwire Gets $4 Million Funding (moconews.net) [edit]
77. thealarmclock.com [edit]
78. Next New Networks Building Micro Television Networks (techcrunch.com) [edit]
79. sendmemobile.com [edit]
80. Stealth-Mode KickApps Seals $6M Series A, Plans Beta (kickapps.com) [edit]
81. Veoh Gets $12.5M From Eisner, Others (socaltech.com) [edit]
82. ThePlatform pulls in $8 million to boost its online distribution deals (seattlepi.com) [edit]
83. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
84. OneRiot lets you search for Spock in realtime (venturebeat.com) [edit]