Today we celebrate our fifteenth anniversary. To mark it, we are announcing our sixth set of funds. At $1.35 billion, it’s only slightly larger than our last. There’s $450 million, Spark Capital VI, for startups in their earliest stages, and $900 million, Spark Growth III, for growth-stage companies. It is…

We are fast approaching 15 years since we formed Spark to invest in exceptional founders and the products and experiences they design. Today, we are 12 investors strong across our early-stage and growth funds, and most importantly, we’ve been fortunate to partner with founders that, on day one of Spark…

Last fall, Dan Porter and I met up for coffee near the Manhattan Bridge, just a few blocks away from his office. I was anxious to hear how things were going at his company, Overtime. I always love catching up Dan (we worked together at OMGPOP several years ago). We…

A talk with Jerry. I had a talk with Jerry recently. Here’s his summary of the podcast: In this conversation, Jerry and Bijan discuss the experience of feeling othered and how that changes what it feels like to belong. The shame and embarrassment of feeling different or outside, and the healing that occurs when we find ourselves on the other side — feeling a part of and knowing we are not alone anymore.

I was born and grew up in New York. My mother immigrated from Korea in the 1960’s and my father immigrated from Iran at the same time. …

CrowdRise + GoFundMe “We only have two rules at CrowdRise. No yawning and no sorries” That was one of the earliest things the CrowdRise CEO and cofounder Robert Wolfe said to me in response to my question, “sorry, can I ask you a dumb question?” In many ways that captures…

There is a lot of self loathing going on right now within the ranks of the media, analysts, bloggers, my friends, members of the Democratic Party and many others that oppose(d) Donald Trump. To be sure, there are lots of lessons to be learned from the campaign and outcome of…

I often talk with folks about possibly joining a startup company. Sometimes it’s about one of our investments. Sometimes it’s a company we haven’t invested in. As part of these talks, I am often asked how to compare equity offers between 2–3 different early stage startups. “This startup is offering…

We have exciting news at Spark Capital and I am delighted to share it with you. Today we are announcing Kevin Thau is joining us as a General Partner based in our new office in San Francisco. His professional bio is on our website here. My partners and I have…