SparkLabs Group

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Updated: Jan 7, 2026 ·

About

SparkLabs Group is a network of startup accelerators and venture capital funds that has invested in over 500 startups across 6 continents since 2013. We help local startups go global.

Financial History

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Feb 1, 2025	Apptronik	$400.0M Series A	—	7 Gate Ventures, AirAngels, AIX Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Axiom Partners, B Capital Group, C2 Investment, Capital Factory, E1 Ventures, Grit Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Long Journey Ventures, Mana Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures, Race Capital, Social Capital, TDK Ventures, The Hit Forge, Trajectory Ventures, Transpose platform, Uncork Capital, Aravind Bharadwaj, Ben Wiener, George Godula, Gokul Rajaram, Sahin Boydas, Tal Cohen
Jan 1, 2025	Final Round AI	$7.0M Seed	—	Alumni Ventures, Axiom Partners, C2 Investment, E1 Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures, Race Capital, Social Capital, TDK Ventures, Trajectory Ventures, Transpose platform, Uncork Capital, George Godula, Sahin Boydas
Sep 1, 2024	Mantel	$30.0M Series A	—	2150, Alumni Ventures, Axiom Partners, C2 Investment, E1 Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures, Race Capital, Social Capital, TDK Ventures, The Engine, Trajectory Ventures, Transpose platform, Uncork Capital, George Godula, Sahin Boydas
Sep 1, 2024	Agree.com	$3.0M Seed	—	Alex, AngelList, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Cambrian Ventures, Cedar Capital Group, E1 Ventures, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Everywhere Ventures (The Fund), Expedite Ventures, Lakeside Capital, Matchstick Ventures, Mucker Capital, NFX, Sterling Equity, Summit Partners, Adeel Hussain, Alex Alpert, David S., Gokul Rajaram, Mattia Astori, Mengxi Lu, Richard Cooperstein, Ron Pragides, Russ Heddleston, Will Szczerbiak
Jul 1, 2024	Hebbia	$130.0M Series B	—	Alumni Ventures, Axiom Partners, C2 Investment, E1 Ventures, Founders Fund, Prosperity7 Ventures, Race Capital, Social Capital, TDK Ventures, Trajectory Ventures, Transpose platform, Uncork Capital, Y Combinator, Andreas Hadjitofi, George Godula, Justin Mateen, Louis Beryl, Matt Mickiewicz, Paul Graham
Jul 1, 2024	Groq	$640.0M Series D	—	Alumni Ventures, Axiom Partners, C2 Investment, E1 Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures, Race Capital, Social Capital, TDK Ventures, Trajectory Ventures, Transpose platform, Uncork Capital, George Godula, Sahin Boydas, 11, Adeel Hussain, Adjacent, Ann Bordetsky, Bradley Horowitz, Charles Zedlewski, DJ Patil, Flourish Ventures, F-Prime Capital Partners, FPV Fund, Jacob Kerzner, James Park, Jeff Hammerbacher, K2 Global, Mattia Astori, Maven Ventures, Mike Lee, Mo El-Bibany, NextView Ventures, Night Capital, Nir Eyal, OODA Ventures, Ron Pragides, Scribble Ventures, Siddharth Singhal, Slack Fund, Stewart Butterfield, Trevor Wright, Tribe Capital
Jun 1, 2024	Opsin	$7.0M Seed	—	Alumni Ventures, Axiom Partners, C2 Investment, CapitalX, E1 Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures, Race Capital, Social Capital, Stage 2 Capital, TDK Ventures, Trajectory Ventures, Transpose platform, Uncork Capital, Brandon Leonardo, George Godula, Oliver Cameron, Sahin Boydas
Apr 1, 2024	Two Chairs	$72.0M Series C	—	Amplo, Anti fund, Bond, BoxGroup, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Hersh Interactive Group, Liquid 2 Ventures, MaC Venture Capital, Rick Yang, Visionaire Ventures, Carmelo Anthony (Melo7 Tech Partners), Erik Moore, Justin Mateen, Thomas Tull
Mar 1, 2024	Applied Intuition	$250.0M Series E	—	10100, 1confirmation, Abstract Ventures, Kevin Hartz, Adverb Ventures, AirAngels, Amplo, Andreessen Horowitz, Chloe Sladden, Anti fund, Atomico, Base Partners, Bond, BoxGroup, Brainchild, C2 Investment, Catapult Capital, Coatue, Collab Capital, Commerce Ventures, Construct Capital, Daffy, Divergence Ventures, Dynamo Ventures, Electric Capital, Entrepreneur First, Expa, Founders Fund, Fuel Capital, General Catalyst, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Greylock, Haystack, Hersh Interactive Group, Index Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, InterWest, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, LGF, Liquid 2 Ventures, Lux Capital, MaC Venture Capital, Menlo Ventures, Rick Yang, New Form Capital, Next Play Ventures, No Label Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Outcast Ventures, Polychain Capital, Quiet Capital, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Robot Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Softbank Group, Sound Ventures, The Hit Forge, Thrive Capital, UpHonest Capital, Visionaire Ventures, Aaron Levie, Aston Motes, Balaji Srinivasan, Bradley Horowitz, Carmelo Anthony (Melo7 Tech Partners), Diego Berdakin, DJ Patil, Dylan Field, Erik Moore, Gokul Rajaram, Jim Pitkow, John Legend, Justin Mateen, Kevin Colas, Marc Benioff, Mark Pincus, Mike Krieger, Rick Wagoner, Sahin Boydas, Stani Kulechov, Thomas Tull, Vitalik Buterin
Jan 1, 2024	Qdrant	$28.0M Series A	—	7GC & Co, Builders, Friedom Partners, FTX Ventures, GoAhead Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Lakeside Capital, Scalebridge Capital, Spark Capital, Adeel Hussain, Dustin Moskovitz, Elia Montanari, Ishani Patel, Jaan Tallinn, Jason Haider, Preetha Parthasarathy, Siddharth Singhal, Vikas Sabnani
Jan 1, 2024	Incognia	$31.0M Series B	—	Angelic Ventures, Anthemis Group, Bessemer Venture Partners, Ali Tamaseb, Haun Ventures, Nascent, Pitchdrive, Point72 Ventures, Uncork Capital, Underscore VC, Balaji Srinivasan, Boris Bogaert, Mo El-Bibany, Sean Park
Nov 1, 2023	AppFlowy	$6.0M Seed	—	7GC & Co, Acrew Capital, Alumni Ventures, Audrey Capital, Builders, C2 Investment, DGF Investimentos, Embedded Ventures, Friedom Partners, FTX Ventures, GoAhead Ventures, Greycroft, Jett Fein, Innovation Endeavors, Lakeside Capital, monashees, Vanessa Larco, Preston-Werner Ventures, REMUS Capital, Scalebridge Capital, SignalFire, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures, Valor Capital Group, Adeel Hussain, Amr Awadallah, Biz Stone, Bob Young, Dustin Moskovitz, Elia Montanari, Ishani Patel, Jaan Tallinn, Jared Leto, Jason Haider, Justin David Blau, Kelvin Beachum Jr., Kevin Lin, Peter Sonsini, Preetha Parthasarathy, Siddharth Singhal, Steve Chen, Vikas Sabnani
Oct 1, 2023	Giga	$4.0M Seed	—	Ahead VC, Cedar Capital Group, E1 Ventures, Expedite Ventures, Lakeside Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Sterling Equity, Summit Partners, The General Partnership, Y Combinator, Adeel Hussain, David S., Mattia Astori, Richard Cooperstein
Jun 1, 2023	BIOS	$20.0M Series A	—	7GC & Co, Ada Ventures, Builders, Friedom Partners, FTX Ventures, GoAhead Ventures, Human Augmentation Syndicate, Innovation Endeavors, Lakeside Capital, Scalebridge Capital, Spark Capital, Adeel Hussain, Alan MacIntosh, Charlie Songhurst, Dustin Moskovitz, Elia Montanari, Evan Cheng, Ishani Patel, Jaan Tallinn, Jason Haider, Preetha Parthasarathy, Siddharth Singhal, Vikas Sabnani
May 1, 2023	Anthropic	$450.0M Series C	—	7GC & Co, AI4ALL, AIX Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Builders, C2 Investment, Cambrian Ventures, Cedar Capital Group, Coatue, DTCP, E1 Ventures, Electric Capital, Entrée Capital Ventures, Founders Fund, Franklin Templeton Investments, Friedom Partners, FTX Ventures, General Catalyst, GoAhead Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Green Bay Ventures, Hanabi Capital, Incisive Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, iNovia Capital, Lakeside Capital, LGF, Point72 Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Roosh Ventures, Scalebridge Capital, Seven Seven Six, Spark Capital, Supercharge.vc, Thomvest Ventures, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Y Combinator, Adeel Hussain, Alexandre Scialom, Ben Lang, Brad Bitler, Dustin Moskovitz, Elad Gil, Elia Montanari, Ishani Patel, Jaan Tallinn, Jason Haider, Jeffrey Wilke, Jennifer Wolf, Justin Mateen, Nimit Maru, Preetha Parthasarathy, Siddharth Singhal, Vikas Sabnani, Vinay Hiremath, William Hockey
Mar 1, 2023	Type One Energy	$29.0M Seed	—	Alumni Ventures, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, Axiom Partners, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, C2 Investment, E1 Ventures, Manutara Ventures, Mayfield, Prelude Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures, Race Capital, SeaX Ventures, Social Capital, SOSV, TDK Ventures, Trajectory Ventures, Transpose platform, Uncork Capital, George Godula, Matt Turk, Sahin Boydas
Jan 1, 2023	Memfault	$24.0M Series B	—	Alchemy Ventures, Angelic Ventures, Anthemis Group, Ali Tamaseb, Haun Ventures, Nascent, Next Coast Ventures, NextGen Venture Partners, Partech Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Uncork Capital, Underscore VC, Balaji Srinivasan, Mo El-Bibany, Sean Park
Aug 1, 2022	Avicena Tech	$25.0M Series A	—	Alumni Ventures, Axiom Partners, C2 Investment, Clear Ventures, E1 Ventures, First Rays Venture Partners, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Nexus Venture Partners, Prosperity7 Ventures, Race Capital, Social Capital, TDK Ventures, Trajectory Ventures, Transpose platform, Uncork Capital, George Godula, Sahin Boydas
Jun 1, 2022	QuoteWell	$15.0M Series A	—	Amplo, Anti fund, Bond, BoxGroup, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Hersh Interactive Group, Liquid 2 Ventures, MaC Venture Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Visionaire Ventures, Carmelo Anthony (Melo7 Tech Partners), Erik Moore, Justin Mateen, Thomas Tull
Jun 1, 2022	Kaiko	$53.0M Series B	—	Alven, Balderton Capital, CMFG Ventures, Eight Roads, Foundation Capital, Underscore VC, Josh Resnick, Zachary Hargreaves
Jun 1, 2022	Incognia	$16.0M Series A	—	Angelic Ventures, Anthemis Group, Ali Tamaseb, Haun Ventures, Nascent, Point72 Ventures, Uncork Capital, Underscore VC, Balaji Srinivasan, Mo El-Bibany, Sean Park
May 1, 2022	TENYX	$15.0M Seed	—	7GC & Co, AI4ALL, Alumni Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Angel investor, Builders, Coelius Capital, Converge Venture Partners, Friedom Partners, FTX Ventures, GoAhead Ventures, Greylock, GSR Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Lakeside Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, MizMaa Ventures, Morado Venture Partners, Liza Landsman, Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Outsized Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Possible Ventures, Scalebridge Capital, Signia Venture Partners, Spark Capital, StageOne Ventures, Sunfish Partners, The General Partnership, True North Cos., Visionaire Ventures, XYZ Venture Capital, Adeel Hussain, Dustin Moskovitz, Dylan Field, Elia Montanari, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ishani Patel, Jason Haider, Mike Vernal, Othman Laraki, Preetha Parthasarathy, Siddharth Singhal, Vikas Sabnani
Apr 1, 2022	Ellevest	$53.0M Series B	—	Amity Ventures, Astia, TJ Nahigian, Broadway Angels, Canvas Ventures, Cleo Capital, Contour Venture Partners, Cultiv8 Funds Management, Flucas Ventures, Greylock, Hustle Fund, Innovation Endeavors, Inspired Capital, Olima Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Piva Capital, Rethink Impact, SciFi VC, The Perkins Fund, Ulu Ventures, Ann Berry, Fanny Surjana, Jake Zeller, Jen Rubio Butterfield, Jonathan Swanson, Michael Stoppelman, Ryan Tedder, Stewart Butterfield, Venus Williams
Feb 1, 2022	Happy Money	$50.0M Series D	—	Anthemis Group, Bessemer Venture Partners, Citi Ventures, CMFG Ventures, FJ Labs, General Catalyst, Red Swan Ventures, Sierra Point Ventures, Teamworthy Ventures, The Finger Group, Alexander Saint-Amand, Josh Resnick, Sean Park
Nov 1, 2021	Peek	$80.0M Series C	—	7GC & Co, Builders, Cantos Ventures, Cathay Innovation, Draper Associates, Embedded Ventures, EVE Atlas, Flucas Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Friedom Partners, FTX Ventures, GoAhead Ventures, Infinite Capital, Innovation Endeavors, Lakeside Capital, LAUNCH, Scalebridge Capital, Spark Capital, Venrock, WestCap, Adeel Hussain, Dustin Moskovitz, Elia Montanari, Ishani Patel, Jaan Tallinn, Jason Haider, Jonathan Chizick, Kurt Bilafer, Preetha Parthasarathy, Ron Pragides, Siddharth Singhal, Stephen Garden, Vikas Sabnani

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Leadership Team

Key people at SparkLabs Group.

Bernard Moon

Partner

Leadership Team

Key people at SparkLabs Group.

Bernard Moon

Partner

Deep Dive

High-Level Overview

SparkLabs Group is a global network of startup accelerators and venture capital funds that has invested in over 550 startups across six continents since its founding in 2013. Its mission centers on building successful, independent startup investment vehicles while leveraging synergies across its teams, networks, and portfolio companies. The group primarily invests in early-stage, technology-driven startups, with a strong focus on sectors such as AI, SaaS, fintech, IoT, smart cities, and cosmetics technology. SparkLabs plays a significant role in fostering innovation ecosystems, especially in Asia, by helping local startups scale globally and strengthening entrepreneurial foundations in countries like South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, and Saudi Arabia[1][2][4].

Origin Story

Founded in 2013, SparkLabs Group was established as a network of accelerators and venture funds with the goal of supporting early-stage startups worldwide. The group has evolved to include multiple specialized accelerators and funds, such as SparkLabs Global Ventures, SparkLabs Ventures, SparkLabs Capital, SparkChain Capital, and sector-focused accelerators like SparkLabs IoT and Smart Cities, SparkLabs FinTech, and others. Key partners include experienced investors and entrepreneurs such as Brian Kang, who leads SparkLabs Ventures and brings over 20 years of investment and operational experience, and Chris Koh, co-founder of Coupang. The group’s evolution reflects a broadening focus from regional startup acceleration to global venture investment with an emphasis on technology innovation and cross-border scaling[1][3].

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Combines accelerator programs with venture capital funds to provide startups with both early-stage support and growth capital.
Network Strength: Operates across multiple continents with strong presence in Asia, the U.S., and Europe, leveraging a global network of partners, advisors, and portfolio companies.
Track Record: Over 550 startups invested in, including notable AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, demonstrating deep expertise in emerging technologies.
Operating Support: Provides hands-on acceleration, mentorship, and access to corporate partners, enabling startups to scale quickly and efficiently.
Sector Specialization: Dedicated funds and accelerators targeting AI, SaaS, fintech, IoT, smart cities, and cosmetics, allowing tailored support and investment strategies[1][2][3].

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

SparkLabs Group rides the global trend of early-stage technology innovation and cross-border startup scaling. The timing is favorable due to increasing demand for AI, cloud computing, fintech solutions, and smart city technologies worldwide. Market forces such as digital transformation, regional innovation policies, and growing venture capital interest in Asia and emerging markets work in SparkLabs’ favor. By bridging local ecosystems with global markets, SparkLabs influences the broader startup ecosystem by enabling startups to access international resources, talent, and capital, thus accelerating innovation diffusion and economic growth in multiple regions[1][2][3].

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, SparkLabs Group is poised to deepen its focus on AI and emerging technologies, as evidenced by its $50 million SparkLabs AIM AI Fund launched in 2024. The firm will likely continue expanding its global footprint and sector specialization, leveraging its accelerator and venture fund network to identify and scale high-potential startups. Trends such as AI democratization, SaaS adoption, and smart city development will shape its investment strategy. SparkLabs’ influence is expected to grow as it continues to build innovation ecosystems that connect startups to global markets, fostering sustainable growth and technological advancement worldwide[1].

This positions SparkLabs Group as a key player in the evolving global venture capital landscape, uniquely combining accelerator expertise with venture funding to empower startups at the forefront of technology innovation.

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High-Level Overview

Origin Story

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Combines accelerator programs with venture capital funds to provide startups with both early-stage support and growth capital.
Network Strength: Operates across multiple continents with strong presence in Asia, the U.S., and Europe, leveraging a global network of partners, advisors, and portfolio companies.
Track Record: Over 550 startups invested in, including notable AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, demonstrating deep expertise in emerging technologies.
Operating Support: Provides hands-on acceleration, mentorship, and access to corporate partners, enabling startups to scale quickly and efficiently.
Sector Specialization: Dedicated funds and accelerators targeting AI, SaaS, fintech, IoT, smart cities, and cosmetics, allowing tailored support and investment strategies[1][2][3].