Dec 23, 2014
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My talk at Slush about going global.
Sparklabs first 10 months & 29 investments
SparkLabs Global Ventures: First Ten Months, First 29 Investments from Bernard Moon
SparkLabs invests in Petnet
Very excited to announce our 2nd investment in the Internet of Things space. PetNet, a connected pet device company founded by former drone engineers aims to revolutionize the way people care for their pets and modernize the entire pet industry.
Their first product is a pet feeder with intelligent sensor technology,learning algorithms, and processing power that assesses the dietary requirements of a pet, creating a custom feeding schedule, alert owners when their pet has been fed and even remind owners to purchase more food when they run low.
Here at SparkLabs Global Ventures we are strong believers in the connected devices and the Internet of Things market and plan to make many more bold investments in this space.
Our investment in PetNet is also our first investment in a L.A-based company.
Our panel at LeWeb 2013 "The Next 10 Years from the Startup Nation Perspective. Awesome demos by StoreDot & Umoove
SparkLabs Global Ventures is a seed-stage investment fund. We believe business is now truly global,...
SparkLabs Global Coverage
Since we've launched Sparklabs Global Ventures two weeks ago, we've got some really good coverage welcoming our global approach. Here's some:
"US, European and Asian entrepreneurs: SparkLabs launched a $30m seed-stage fund just for you" TheNextWeb
"SparkLabs Launches $30M Global Seed-Stage Fund With Ex-Facebooker Net Jacobsson And Former Horizons VC Frank Meehan" TechCrunch
"Corporate armistice: Can South Korea’s big and small companies thrive together?" The Economist
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!