Introducing SparkLabs Global Ventures
After many years of thinking and a couple of months of planning, I am very excited to announce that we have launched SparkLabs Global Ventures, a global seed stage fund. Together with my founding partners Frank Meehan (formerly Horizon Ventures: BoD Siri, Spotify and Summly, Bernard Moon (SparkLabs Accelerator Korea) Jimmy Kim (ex Nexon CFO) Hanjoo Lee (SparkLabs Accelerator Korea & co-founder of Hostway) and Jay Mccarthy (Pacific Advisors) we are going to invest and help our entrepreneurs to develop, grow, network, scale into other markets throughout the world.Bernard, Frank and myself will be the primary operating partners.
We believe that while business now is truly global most investors are not. We are a truly global team based out of Palo Alto, London, Tel Aviv, Seoul and Singapore. We are all experienced operators, entrepreneurs and angel investors who have been in the trenches and knows what it means to be an entrepreneur and what it takes to built a company. In fact, we are still really entrepreneurs since SparkLabs Global Ventures is a startup.
Our investment thesis is that the future is data. We are looking for companies that are:
Generating valuable data around usage-patterns, customer behavior and company information.
Have innovative & disruptive business models
Have high engagement with their costumer base
Have a highly talented and driven team
We will be investing in areas like wearable computing, mobile, gaming, big data, education, wellness, financial services, analytics and social commerce. Regions of particular interest are: US (Silicon Valley, New York & LA) Israel, Europe (Berlin, Stockholm, Helsinki, London & Eastern Europe) Asia (Seoul, China, Singapore).
There you have it. The genie is out of the bottle. Great success!
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