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Spark Capital

Spark Capital Growth Fund V, L.P.

Open, writing first checks

Open: no first sale reported; age from Form D filed Dec 2023 (approximate)

Vintage
Unknown
Fund size
$1400M to $1554.87M (Form D and SEC adviser filing)
Stages
Growth
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

$46.67M to $97.18M (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
  • Yasmin Razavi
  • Alex Finkelstein
  • Santo Politi
  • Will Reed

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/2004497/000199882823000003/

Last verified: Oct 28, 2026