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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 IPWireless. (11/18/09)
  Posted 11/18/09 at 3:20pm
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  Spark Capital invested in Intune Networks. (10/2/09)
  Posted 11/18/09 at 3:37pm
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  Spark Capital invested in Aviary. (10/09)
  Posted 10/27/09 at 8:24am
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  Spark Capital invested in Twitter. (9/25/09)
  Posted 9/25/09 at 9:08am
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  Spark Capital invested in Altius Education. (9/23/09)
  Posted 9/24/09 at 2:38am
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  Spark Capital invested in VeriVue. (9/9/09)
  Posted 9/9/09 at 4:45pm
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  Spark Capital invested in OneRiot. (8/27/09)
  Posted 8/27/09 at 3:02pm
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  Spark Capital invested in Boxee. (8/12/09)
  Posted 8/12/09 at 10:02am
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  Spark Capital invested in 5min. (7/23/09)
  Posted 7/23/09 at 4:46am
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  Spark Capital invested in AdMeld. (6/24/09)
  Posted 6/24/09 at 7:07am
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  Spark Capital — Spark Capital Launches Seed Funding Program Start@Spark (3/25/09)
  Posted 3/25/09 at 8:28am
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  Spark Capital invested in SendMe. (3/5/09)
  Posted 3/17/09 at 11:37am
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  Spark Capital invested in Twitter. (2/13/09)
  Posted 2/13/09 at 11:42am
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  Spark Capital invested in Tumblr. (12/11/08)
  Posted 12/11/08 at 6:59am
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  Spark Capital invested in KickApps. (11/25/08)
  Posted 11/25/08 at 8:47am
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  Spark Capital invested in Boxee. (11/18/08)
  Posted 11/18/08 at 12:59pm

Investments

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Sources

1. Spark Capital raises $360M for second media fund (venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. Citation Needed [add]
3. Spark Capital Launches Seed Funding Program Start@Spark (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. IPWireless (ipwireless.com) [edit]
5. AltAssets (altassets.com) [edit]
6. Aviary Raises $7 Million From Spark And Jeff Bezos To Crush Adobe Online (ADBE, AMZN) (businessinsider.com) [edit]
7. Twitter (blog.twitter.com) []
8. Altius lands $8M to launch accredited online colleges (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
9. Verivue streams $20M straight to coffers in latest round (masshightech.com) [edit]
10. techcrunch.com [edit]
11. Boxee Watches $6 Million More In Funding Stream In (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. ‘How To’ Video Site 5min Raises An Extra $7.5 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Ad Optimizer AdMeld Raises $8 Million, Opens UK Operations (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. SendMe nabs another $12 million for mobile entertainment content (venturebeat.com) [edit]
15. Twitter Raises $35 Million Series C From Benchmark and IVP, Others (techcrunch.com) []
16. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) []
17. KickApps Actually Raises $14 Million In Series C Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. Boxee raisted 4m Today (vccafe.com) [edit]
19. Industry Moves: AdMeld Taps Former FIM Exec Barrett As CEO, Secures New Funding (admeld.com) [edit]
20. Video Ad Platform Adap.tv Raises Another $13 Million (sociableblog.com) [edit]
21. Verified Identity Pass, Steve Brill's Airport Security Company, Raises $44.4 Million (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
22. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
23. We’ve raised a third round of funding (bugblogger.com) [edit]
24. VeriVue Picks up $40M For Video On Demand (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
25. Iminlikewithyou Gets VC Cash For New Game (gigaom.com) [edit]
26. 8D World Received $1M+ for New Virtual World from Spark Capital (virtualworldsnews.com) [edit]
27. Veoh Raises Another $30 Million From Intel Capital, Adobe, and Gordon Crawford (techcrunch.com) [edit]
28. Twitter Announces Their Funding, Calls Itself A Communication Utility (techcrunch.com) []
29. Lonely No More: Lonelygirl15 Production Company EQAL Gets $5 Million Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
30. techcrunch.com [edit]
31. biz.yahoo.com [edit]
32. Next New Networks - $15 million From Velocity Interactive Group And Goldman Sachs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. Inform Technologies Raises $15M For Big Media Site Tools (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
34. techcrunch.com [edit]
35. techcrunch.com [edit]
36. http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/10/tumblr-funded-750k-vimeo.html (alleyinsider.com) []
37. Intune Networks (intunenetworks.com) [edit]
38. Veoh Goes for the Big Money (newteevee.com) [edit]
39. KickApps Secures Series B Funding to Extend Leadership in Hosted Social Media Platform Market (kickapps.com) [edit]
40. Mobile Audio/Video Streaming Service Buzzwire Gets $4 Million Funding (moconews.net) [edit]
41. thealarmclock.com [edit]
42. Next New Networks Building Micro Television Networks (techcrunch.com) [edit]
43. sendmemobile.com [edit]
44. Stealth-Mode KickApps Seals $6M Series A, Plans Beta (kickapps.com) [edit]
45. Bug Labs pulls in funds for do-it-yourself gadgets (news.cnet.com) [edit]
46. Veoh Gets $12.5M From Eisner, Others (socaltech.com) [edit]
47. OneRiot lets you search for Spock in realtime (venturebeat.com) [edit]
48. Citation Needed [add]
49. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]