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Founder6Not (yet!) a founder
8th percentile
Investor163Current investor
98th percentile
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Spark Capital General Partner who led Anthropic's $450M Series C
• Professional:Growth-Stage Focus
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Portfolio Scale · 94th percentile
- Led Spark's Series B investment in Deel, a portfolio unicorn that raised $1.3B in total funding and is valued well above $1B.
- Led Spark's investment in Marqeta ($MQ), which went public via IPO — a portfolio company acquisition/exit of significant reported value.
- Partner / Principal at Spark Capital, a recognized VC firm with a long public deal record.
- Has made at least 12 named active investments including Anthropic, Crusoe, Deel, Edison Scientific, Marqeta, MatX, Kalshi, Optimism, Pika, Qdrant, Tenderly, and Uniswap.
- Invited as a judge at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021's Startup Battlefield, a recognized industry event — minor prestige signal.
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- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)5,233 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)sparkcapital.com ranks #252,083 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
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- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Active GP / fund manager confirmed as named related person on Spark Capital Growth Fund V and Growth Fund VI per SEC Form D filings.
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Partner / Principal at Spark Capital, a recognized VC firm with a long public deal record.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Led Spark's investment in Anthropic, a portfolio unicorn valued at $5B at the Series C and now among the most valuable private AI companies.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Has made at least 12 named active investments including Anthropic, Crusoe, Deel, Edison Scientific, Marqeta, MatX, Kalshi, Optimism, Pika, Qdrant, Tenderly, and Uniswap.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Led Spark's Series B investment in Deel, a portfolio unicorn that raised $1.3B in total funding and is valued well above $1B.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Investing since 2017 at Spark Capital, representing approximately 9 years of active investing experience.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Featured in a dedicated Forbes profile titled 'Investing Superstar Yasmin Razavi Turned A $75 Million Check Into A $3 Billion AI Windfall', recognizing her investing acumen.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Invited as a judge at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021's Startup Battlefield, a recognized industry event — minor prestige signal.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Led Spark's investment in Marqeta ($MQ), which went public via IPO — a portfolio company acquisition/exit of significant reported value.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Previously an investor at Index Ventures.
What you likely need
As a General Partner at Spark Capital focused on growth-stage investing, you'd benefit most from high-signal gatherings with other top-tier growth investors and the founders of breakout AI and fintech companies. Your portfolio spans AI infrastructure, fintech, and crypto — events that bring together operators at the Series B/C inflection point would be most relevant. Thought-leadership positioning around your Anthropic thesis and go-to-market expertise could also open doors to the next generation of category-defining founders.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- tacticalA closed-door roundtable for growth-stage GPs (Spark, Bessemer, Coatue, Tiger peers) to compare notes on AI infrastructure valuation frameworks in 2025–2026.
- introsAn intimate dinner with AI safety and frontier-model founders to surface the next Anthropic-tier investment before the rest of the market sees it.
- introsA Series B fintech founder dinner (Deel, Marqeta, Rapyd alumni and peers) to identify the next global payroll or payments breakout.
- positioningA workshop for growth-stage investors and operators on go-to-market benchmarks post-product-market fit, aligned with your public GTM-focused investment thesis.
- introsA happy hour with Ethereum L2/L3 founders and protocol teams (Optimism, Uniswap ecosystem) to stay ahead of the superchain narrative.
- tacticalA dinner with AI chip and hardware founders (MatX peers, Groq, Cerebras) to sharpen conviction on the next wave of LLM inference infrastructure bets.
- positioningA positioning session with PR and media advisors to build toward a Forbes Midas List nomination, leveraging the Anthropic return story.