United States · What does First Spark Ventures invest in?
First Spark Ventures invests most often at Series B (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Fintech, Fin-tech and Regtech.
First Spark Ventures highlights
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1 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series B: 100% of its rounds
What they do
First Spark Ventures is a Deep Tech venture capital fund investing in breakthrough technologies that make the world healthier, safer, and more productive.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $100K – $5.0M as they say
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- FintechFin-techRegtech
- Based in
- San Carlos, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first1 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- Mar
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration1 named
MKManish KothariManaging DirectoriForm ADV
We also hold 4 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$175Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- First Spark Ventures, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 318886
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in First Spark Ventures's funds
- Funds
- 1
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: an LP list.
Perot Jain1 fundFund Vintage Committed First Spark Ventures - -
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
12 of 25 we have independently watched raise
FlowerFlowerFortuneFundamentalresearchlabsInlyteenergyLatentaiNormalcomputingOathsurgicalRadicalnumericsSimulonTidalmetalsUnnaturalproductsAlljoinedConfidencialCurvebioEndometricsFigur8techInworldNimblesciSolopulsecoSpacenewsSynthlabsValitorbioVitaraXonaspace
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.