34 Founders Backed by Spark Capital (2026)

Spark Capital founders (34)

Spark Capital founders covers 34 founders on Cardless, Piston and 9fin and 29 other companies. The most common sectors are AI Infrastructure (11), Fintech (8) and SaaS (4). Members are based in 16 cities, led by San Francisco, CA (11), London, UK (4) and New York, NY (4). The remaining members span Developer Tools (3), E-commerce (2), Healthtech (2), Climate (1), Cybersecurity (1), Logistics (1) and Robotics (1). Companies represented include Alpaca, Base Power, Baseten, BuildVision, Cimulate AI, Comulate, Cyera, Dataplor, Enfabrica, Eve, Granola and Kalshi, plus 17 more. Every founder below links to a profile with their company, backers, and the filings behind each round.

• Founders listed: 34
• Companies represented: 32
• Top sector: AI Infrastructure (11 founders)
• Top location: San Francisco, CA (11 founders)
• Sectors represented: 10
• Locations represented: 16

• Andre Zayarni — Qdrant
• Brad Menezes — Superblocks
• Christopher Pedregal — Granola
• Demi Guo — Pika
• Derek Lo — Medallion
• Devansh Pandey — Standard Intelligence
• Dominic Preuss — VillageSQL
• Eduardo Torrealba — Lumafield
• Egem Eraslan — Midas
• Eric Yen — Stream
• Filip Kozera — Wordware
• Florian Hillen — VideaHealth
• Geoff Michener — Dataplor
• Jay Madheswaran — Eve
• Jeremy Levine — Underdog Fantasy
• John Andrews — Cimulate AI
• Jordan Katz — Comulate
• Jorge Val — Latent Technology
• Karan Shanm — Alpaca
• Michael Spelfogel — Cardless
• Mike Powers — BuildVision
• Ovais Tariq — Tigris Data
• Rob Schoder — Vinyl Equity
• Rochan Sankar — Enfabrica
• Roy Blanga — Ravio
• Sam Bhagwat — Mastra
• Scott Kazmierowicz — Cardless
• Shivam Shah — Piston
• Steven Hunter — 9fin
• Tarek Mansour — Kalshi
• Tuhin Srivastava — Baseten
• Vikram Sekhon — Piston
• Yotam Segev — Cyera
• Zachary Dell — Base Power

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• Spark Capital · AI Infrastructure (11 founders)
• Spark Capital · San Francisco, CA (11 founders)
• Spark Capital · Fintech (8 founders)
• Spark Capital · New York, NY (4 founders)
• Spark Capital · London, UK (4 founders)
• Spark Capital · SaaS (4 founders)
• Spark Capital · Developer Tools (3 founders)

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