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Founder of Draper Associates & DFJ. Early investor in Baidu, Hotmail, Skype, Tesla, SpaceX, Ring, Coinbase, and others.
Partner at Neo
Former Business Lead at Stripe for
B2B Payments
Former Director of Product at Twitter
Founder & CEO at Lightwell
(acquired by Twitter)
Founding Partner at Roble Ventures
Former Partner at Norwest
Venture Partners
Co-founded the Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program at Stanford
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Co-founder & CEO at Ceramic.ai
Founder of Gradient Ventures
(Google’s AI Fund)
Serial Entrepreneur with two companies sold to Google
Co-founder & CEO at Vectara
Co-founder & former CTO at
Cloudera (multi-billion dollar IPO)
Co-founder & CEO at Reallm
Former Head of AI at ByteDance U.S. Former Director of AI at Alibaba Group
2020 National Science and
Technology Progress Award
(China's top tech accolade)
Head of Startups GTM at OpenAI
Former Head of Business Development, Early Stage Startups at Amazon Web Services
Co-founder at Farm Hill
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Former Partner at United Talent Agency and Head of UTA Ventures
EVP & GM, Enterprise at Maker Studios (acquired by Disney)
SVP of Marketing and Programming at MySpace
Managing Director & Global Head of Investments at Samsung Next
Co-founder & Special Partner
at Altos Ventures
Chairman & Co-founder at EST Media
CEO at OP3N
Co-founder at Stampede
Co-founder at 88Rising
Variety500 Honoree
Investments and Innovations
in the Middle East
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Impact Startups
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VP of Strategy & MarCom, Founding Team Member at Nex
Former VP of Growth at Newsela
Former Product Marketing
Manager at Uber
Co-founder & CEO at Roughneck AI
Co-founder & Board Member at
Eversparks Health
Venture Partner at NextGen
Venture Partners
Co-founder & CEO at RemixAI
Former CFO & COO at Outdoorsy
Former CEO at iHeartMedia’s
Jelli Platform
Life After Professional Sports
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Co-founder & Partner at Landspire
Former NBA Player
Founder at Josh Childress Foundation
Former NBA Player, CEO of IP FAMBA
AAU Global Sports Ambassador
Author, "R.O.L.E. Players"
Co-founder & Partner at 100x Sports
Former NBA G League Player (Raptors 905)
Former Analyst at Piedmont
Partners Group Ventures
SparkLabs Group is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013. We have invested in over 550 companies across 6 continents, and our portfolio has gained over $44 billion in post money valuation. We are also the leading startup accelerator in Asia with the best survival rate in the world at 86.7% (280 out of 323 accelerator investments) since our beginning.
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We have invested in OpenAI, Vectara, Kneron, Mighty Buildings, Anthropic, Lyft, Nex Team, Kraken, Discord, GenG, Genies, Messari, Animoca Brands, Populus, InnerPlant, Lifesum, MetAI, GliaCloud and others.
Presence in the U.S., South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Singapore, London, Saudi Arabia, and UAE.
Nex’s mission is to connect families through active play. The Nex Playground is a motion gaming console that is designed from the ground up to serve kids and their families.
Veterans from Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon, Disney, Walmart and Uber. The co-founders worked together for 20+ years and sold their last company to Apple.
Nex Team has raised funding from Blue Pool Capital, Gaw Capital, HBSE Ventures, Joe Tsai, Mark Cuban, Steve Chen (YouTube), Samsung, and the NBA. Along with current and former NBA players such as Steve Nash, Bradley Beal, Al Horford, Jaylen Brown, Andre Iguodala, Tobias Harris, Joe Harris and others.
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