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William Reed

Investor at Baseten

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

William Reed is a General Partner at Spark Capital in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a strong track record of investing in successful companies like Scale AI (Series F) and Abridge (Series C). He has served as a Series B Investor and Board Director for companies such as Baseten and has been involved in various Series C investments like Headway.

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.

  • Series B Investor, Board Director

    2023

Abridge is a medical conversation AI startup that structures and summarizes medical conversations for doctors and patients.

Raised $207,500,000.00 from Union Square Ventures, Redpoint, Bessemer Venture Partners, Mass General Brigham, Wittington Ventures, Spark Capital, IVP, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Kaiser Permanente Ventures and CVS Health Ventures.

  • Series C Investor, Board Director

    2023

Headway is a mental healthcare system that helps users have access to affordable healthcare.

Raised $325,500,000.00 from Forerunner, Global Founders Capital, Spark Capital, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital.

  • Series C Investor

    2019

Scale AI provides a data-oriented platform that assists in the development of AI applications.

Raised $2,602,620,000.00 from WCM Investment Management, Meta, Wellington Management, Y Combinator, Intel Capital, DFJ Growth, NVIDIA, Nat Friedman, Thrive Capital and Qualcomm Ventures.

  • Series C Investor

    2016

Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities.

Raised $995,408,718.00 from IPOSharks, Arcane Group and Flat Capital.

  • Series B Investor, Board Director

    2023

Baseten is an AI infrastructure company that integrates machine learning into business operations, production, and processes.

Raised $60,000,000.00 from Charles Zedlewski, Greylock, basecase capital, IVP, Spark Capital, Lachy Groom and South Park Commons.

  • Series B, Series E Investor, Board Observer

    2016

Handshake is a college career network that helps students and recent graduates find their next opportunity.

Raised $434,000,000.00 from Spark Capital, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Emerson Collective, Coatue, EQT Ventures, Valiant Peregrine Fund, True Ventures, Base10’s Advancement Initiative, Kleiner Perkins and Notable Capital.

  • Series D Investor

    2020

Benchling is an IT company that provides a cloud-based software platform for biology researchers and research and development organizations.

Raised $411,900,000.00 from Lone Pine Capital, Franklin Templeton and Altimeter Capital.

  • Series B Investor

    2018

Formation Bio is a drug development company that strives to provide treatments to patients faster by reimagining clinical trials.

Raised $528,000,000.00 from SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, Sanofi, FPV Ventures, Thrive Capital, Lachy Groom, Sequoia Capital and Emerson Collective.

  • Series C Investor, Board Director

    2020

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