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Santo Politi

General Partner at Spark Capital LLC

Boston, Massachusetts

Overview 

Santo Politi is the Founder and General Partner at Spark Capital LLC in Boston, Massachusetts. His notable career highlights include founding Spark Capital LLC and serving as a current board member for companies like Plaid, eToro, and Cybereason.

Work Experience 

  • Founder and General Partner

    2006 - Current

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

  • Current Board Member

    2015

Plaid provides companies with the tools and access needed for the development of a digitally-enabled financial system.

Raised $734,300,000.00 from Bedrock, American Express Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Silver Lake, Kleiner Perkins, Thrive Capital, Raed Malek, Index Ventures and Spark Capital.

  • Current Board Member

    2011

  • Current Board Member

    2015

Cybereason is an endpoint detection and response platform that identifies cyber attacks for effective response.

Raised $850,600,000.00 from SoftBank.

  • Current Board Member

    2019

Alpaca is a financial system platform that allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms.

Raised $86,800,000.00 from SBI Group.

  • Current Board Member

    2012

Superpedestrian is a venture-backed robotics company that develops lightweight electric vehicles with integrated online platforms.

Raised $261,700,000.00 from General Catalyst, Jefferies, Spark Capital, Antara Capital, Citi and FM Capital.

  • Current Board Member

    2017

Lightmatter develops photonic chips that enable data processing and communication using light instead of electricity.

Raised $822,000,000.00 from Bossa Invest, T. Rowe Price, Google Ventures and Fidelity.

  • Current Board Member

    2020

Liquidity Dynamics brings your portfolio to life through algorithmic analysis & forecasting.

  • Current Board Member

    2019

Droplette is a needle-free and hand-held device that delivers large molecules deep through skin.

Raised $21,049,703.00 from Suttona Capital.

  • Current Board Member

    2018

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