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Kevin Thau

General Partner at Spark Capital

New York, New York

Overview 

Kevin Thau is a General Partner at Spark Capital in New York, with a background that includes serving as Head of Mobile Products and VP of Business and Corporate Development at Twitter. He has made significant investments in companies like Heyday, Framework, and Studs, focusing on sectors such as Wellness & Fitness, Messaging, and AR/VR.

Work Experience 

  • General Partner

    2015 - Current

Spark Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in the consumer, commerce, FinTech, software, frontier, and media sectors.

  • Head of Mobile Products, VP Business and Corporate Development

    2008 - 2014

    NYSE: TWTR

X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.

Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.

  • Sales, Marketing, and Corporate Development

    2003 - 2007

    (acquired by Amdocs NYSE: DOX)

  • Sales, Marketing, and Developer Relations

    1995 - 2003

    NASDAQ: OPWV

Openwave Systems develops mobile messaging software.

  • Developer Marketing

    1994 - 1995

    NYSE: SGI

Silicon Graphics provides workstations for conceptual design analysis and simulation of 3D objects.

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