Bijan Sabet
Co-Founder and General Partner @ Spark Capital
Boston, United States
Bijan Sabet is a Series A investor at Spark Capital in Boston focused on Software and Social Media. Bijan Sabet is based out of Boston, Massachusetts, and is the Member Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch. Bijan previously worked at U.S. Department of State as a United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic. Bijan Sabet attended Boston College.
- Total investments:
- 54
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 48%
Last updated:
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Industries Bijan Sabet invests in
Stages Bijan Sabet invests in
Countries Bijan Sabet invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (17%)
- Social Media 6 (11%)
- Mobile 4 (7%)
- Internet 4 (7%)
- Sports 3 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 14 (26%)
- Series B 12 (22%)
- Series C 6 (11%)
- Seed 5 (9%)
- Series D 5 (9%)
Country
- United States 22 (41%)
- France 2 (4%)
- Israel 1 (2%)
- United Kingdom 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Street FC operates a football club to make soccer accessible to as many people as possible. It develops a technology that specializes in connecting a community of players online and offline by organizing fast-paced street soccer games on hard surfaces. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York. | $2.2M / Seed / Aug 17, 2022 | ||
| Academia.edu is the largest and fastest-growing platform in the world for sharing academic research. Its mission is to accelerate and democratize academic research. Over 150 million academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 25 million papers. Over 100,000 people join Academia.edu each day. Academia.edu attracts over 52 million uniquevisitors a month. 40% of the world's faculty log in to Academia.edu every month. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $23M / Series D / Feb 23, 2022 | ||
| Beam is a software startup that collects their thoughts and experience through the Internet. The company is creating an app that will automatically generate notes summing up and classifying the knowledge they'd gathered while browsing. These notes could ultimately be shared with other Beam users to help enrich.Beam was founded in 2019 and isbased in Paris, France. | $9.5M / Series A / Feb 03, 2021 | ||
| Beam is a software startup that collects their thoughts and experience through the Internet. The company is creating an app that will automatically generate notes summing up and classifying the knowledge they'd gathered while browsing. These notes could ultimately be shared with other Beam users to help enrich.Beam was founded in 2019 and isbased in Paris, France. | $3.5M / Seed / Oct 20, 2020 | ||
| Alfred is an end-to-end resident experience and building management platform that is changing the way people live and transforming the real estate industry. Operating at the intersection of real estate and technology, Alfred builds intuitive, personal support into one of the most important spaces of our lives: our homes. Named one of the Top 50Most Innovative Companies in the World by Fast Company in the urban development space, Alfred has been recognized in The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, as a pioneer in the on-demand economy, following their decision to hire Alfred Home Managers as W-2 employees (complete with benefits, training, and the ability to move up in the organization) and its support of local ecosystems and neighborhood businesses.Hello Alfred was founded in 2014 by Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck, and is headquartered in New York, New York, United States. | $42M / Series C / Oct 14, 2020 | ||
| Stack Overflow is a platform for developers and programmers to share knowledge and solve coding challenges. It helps programmers get answers to their toughest coding questions, share knowledge with their coworkers in private, and find their next dream job. Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky co-founded Stack Overflow in 2008 in New York, New York. | $85M / Series E / Jul 28, 2020 | ||
| TEOOH is a platform for hosting Virtual Events. From panel discussions to business conferences, anyone can host or attend virtual events in just a few clicks. Our aim is to become the easiest and most powerful way to engage global audiences, by allowing communities across the world to attend events and interact as they would do in the physicalworld, without the hassle of travelling or finding a venue.For more information, please visit www.teooh.com. | $1.3M / Seed / Jun 20, 2020 | ||
| Slite is the fastest way to access trusted company information. Powered by AI, Slite’s knowledge base enables growing teams to instantly get the answers they need - without even searching. From onboarding guides to all hands notes, your company docs are centralised, organised, and always up-to-date. Replace all-in-one workspaces with a tool builtfor company knowledge and see it scale with your team. Join more than 200,000 companies that use Slite as their single source of truth today. | $11M / Series A / Apr 15, 2020 | ||
| Overtime is a sports network for the next generation of sports fans. It produces original content across YouTube, Snapchat, and IGTV, as well as highly engaging short-form content on Instagram and TikTok.Based in NYC, Overtime is funded by top VC firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Greycroft Ventures as well as industry leaders like Kevin Durantand former NBA Commissioner David Stern. | $23M / Series B / Feb 15, 2019 | ||
| Alfred is an end-to-end resident experience and building management platform that is changing the way people live and transforming the real estate industry. Operating at the intersection of real estate and technology, Alfred builds intuitive, personal support into one of the most important spaces of our lives: our homes. Named one of the Top 50Most Innovative Companies in the World by Fast Company in the urban development space, Alfred has been recognized in The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, as a pioneer in the on-demand economy, following their decision to hire Alfred Home Managers as W-2 employees (complete with benefits, training, and the ability to move up in the organization) and its support of local ecosystems and neighborhood businesses.Hello Alfred was founded in 2014 by Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck, and is headquartered in New York, New York, United States. | $40M / Series B / May 31, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Spark Capital
Spark Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in exceptional products and the creative individuals behind them. Known for embracing risk and a unique approach, Spark Capital has backed companies like Twitter, Discord, Anthropic, Cruise, Niantic, Oculus, Warby Parker, and Tumblr. Recognizing that there are no set playbooks or formulas for success, the firm supports founders in achieving success on their own terms. Spark Capital invests across all sectors and stages, operating out of San Francisco, Boston, and New York City.
Spark Capital Contacts
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Clay Fisher
General Partner
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Alexander Finkelstein
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Bijan Sabet
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Fraser Kelton
General Partner
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James Kuklinski
General Partner, Growth
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What does Bijan Sabet invest in?
Bijan Sabet invests primarily in Software, Social Media and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 54 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Bijan Sabet last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bijan Sabet closed in Aug 2022. Shizune tracks 54 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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