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Spark Capital

Spark Capital Founders Fund VII, L.P.

Late investment period

Late investment period: first sale May 2022, per Form D (fund age approximates vintage)

Vintage
2022
Fund size
$7.08M to $7.18M (Form D and SEC adviser filing)
Stages
Not stated
Sectors
Not stated
Regions
Not stated

01 · Thesis

Spark Capital invests in founders with ambition, brains, guts, and resolve, backing ideas about the future, science, and products that can make markets. It says there is no playbook or formula for venture investing.Inferred from the firm's website

02 · Initial check

$71K to $120K (estimated from fund size)

Estimated from Form D and SEC adviser filing

03 · Who to approach

Named on this fund's Form D

  • Jeremy Philips
  • Kevin Thau, Managing Member of the General Partner
  • Alex Finkelstein
  • Nabeel Hyatt, Managing Member of the General Partner
  • Santo Politi
  • Paul Conway

04 · Deals

No deals attributed to this fund yet.

05 · Evidence

  • Firm-wideSpark Capital says there are no playbooks or formulas for venture investing. It says it invests in founders with qualities such as ambition, brains, guts, and resolve.

    We invest in ambition, brains, guts, people, crazy dreams, idealists, optimism, resolve, independence, reinvention, action, systems, clarity and complexity, distinction, counterpoint, art, humanness.
    https://www.sparkcapital.com/

06 · Sources

  1. https://www.sparkcapital.com/
  2. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1920095/000192009522000001/

Last verified: Oct 28, 2026