Partnering with Quaestor

At Spark, we seek to keep those we work with close, whether they’re part of our internal team or the founders we back. When John Melas-Kyriazi, a friend and long-time investor on our early-stage team, said he was ready to take the founder journey with Quaestor, we knew we wanted to be involved.

Quaestor seeks to bring more transparency and enable easier collaboration between CEOs, their board, and their investors.

Today the burden to report certain metrics like cash burn, P&L, and revenue growth with the board falls back on the company. While the operational side of a startup has evolved into real-time dashboards over the last decade, the financial side is still often manual, tedious spreadsheets that make reporting a pain.

By automating this financial reporting process Quaestor can transform a report from a chore into what it should be, knowledge sharing, and strategic discussion about the company.

John’s background as CFO at Stanford’s Start-X accelerator and then an investor at Spark make him perfectly suited for building Quaestor. In addition to John, they’ve brought together a strong team with Kevin Hsu and Deny Khoung, that have been closely tied to the problem for years.

Spark is proud to partner with Quaestor on their $5.8 million seed round alongside 8VC, who helped found the company, and Abstract Ventures, Riot Ventures, Fathom Ventures, and GFC. We love that John is out there on the founder path himself. We are thrilled to continue to work alongside him, and the rest of the Quaestor team as they build the automated data platform for the venture capital industry.