Megan Quinn
General Partner @ Spark Capital
San Francisco, United States
Megan Quinn is a startup investor, company builder and public/private board director. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors at Handshake, Niantic, Pendo, and Rover (ROVR) and an active advisor and angel investor in early stage consumer, fintech and SaaS startups in the US and Europe.Most recently Megan was Chief OperatingOfficer of Niantic, the gaming and AR platform company, where she oversaw all aspects of business operations and international development, including Marketing, Communications, Business Development, Corporate Development, Legal, Sales, and Operations. Megan was previously a General Partner at Spark Capital where she focused on growth stage investments, including Glossier, Handshake, Niantic, Outreach, Pendo, Rover (ROVR) and Snapchat (SNAP). Prior to Spark Capital, Megan was a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers where she invested in a number of companies including Nextdoor (KIND), Slack (WORK), Stripe, and Uber (UBER).Prior to investing, Megan served as the first Head of Product at Square, where she led strategy and development of the company’s products across merchant and consumer audiences. Earlier in her career, Megan spent seven years at Google and was part of the early Niantic team incubated within Google, alongside the company’s founder and CEO John Hanke. In addition to working at Niantic during her time at Google, she held various leadership positions in Marketing, Business Development and Product Management, and spearheaded the development of Google Maps.In 2017 Megan co-founded All Raise, a nonprofit focused on accelerating the success of female funders and founders in tech. She also served as a member of the Technology Advisory Board for HSBC for four years until 2020 where she advised the bank's Board of Directors on all aspects of technology adoption. Megan has been named to Fortune's "40 Under 40" (2021), Forbes' "Midas Brink" (2017), Vanity Fair's "New Establishment" (2017) and Fast Company's "World's Most Creative People" (2013) lists.Megan holds a degree in political science and history from Stanford University and lives in London with her husband and two daughters.
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
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Industries Megan Quinn invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (24%)
- Internet 4 (16%)
- Apps 3 (12%)
- SaaS 3 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (12%)
Stage
- Series D 6 (24%)
- Series C 5 (20%)
- Series B 3 (12%)
- Seed 2 (8%)
- Series A 2 (8%)
Country
- United States 14 (56%)
- United Kingdom 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Multiply Mortgage a modern mortgage platform with a novel distribution channel of working with companies to provide access to better mortgage rates as an employee benefit, enabling their employees to afford more home. | Seed / Dec 31, 2022 | ||
| Humaans is a provider of HRIS employee management software for remote and distributed teams. Instead of a one-size-fits-all software platform, the company's employee management platform enables organizations to maintain a central hub of employee data while building a customizable people operations stack. The stack assists businesses inmanaging employee data, documents, reporting, and the people processes that drive the entire structure. It allows organizations to create a customizable HR stack that manages employee documents, data, payroll, contracts, and other "people ops" componentsTheir goal is to automate the entire employment lifecycle and simplify complex manual processes like onboarding, offboarding, promotions, compensation management, and more. | $15M / Series A / Oct 04, 2022 | ||
| Handshake is a college career network that helps students and recent graduates find their next opportunity.The company's network gives students access to more career opportunities and insights, provides employers with more comprehensive and efficient access to talent, and gives colleges more tools to drive student engagement and increasestudent employmentHandshake was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Denver and London, England. | $80M / Series D / Oct 20, 2020 | ||
| Nextdoor is the app where you plug into the neighborhoods that matter to you. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Neighbors turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, local businesses, and publicagencies.We believe connecting with others is a universal human need. That truth, and the reality that neighborhoods are among the most important communities in our lives, have been guiding principles for Nextdoor since the beginning.Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in 276,000 neighborhoods around the world, including the United States (nearly 1 in 3 U.S. households), the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and Canada, with many more to come. Nextdoor is a privately held company based in San Francisco with backing from prominent investors including Benchmark, Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Riverwood Capital, Bond, Axel Springer, Comcast Ventures, and others. | $170M / Series H / May 14, 2019 | ||
| Glossier, Inc. is a direct-to-consumer beauty company that leverages content and community to power a superior shopping experience. Their skincare, makeup, body, and fragrance products are sold in the United States, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom directly through Glossier and in their New York City showroom. | $100M / Series D / Mar 19, 2019 | ||
| Today, more than 9 million people across global enterprises and small teams come to us when they are looking to transform the way they work together. The heart of InVision is Freehand, our online digital whiteboard. Freehand is a collaborative canvas for all the work you do. We designed it to be simple and intuitive, clearing away all the confusingclutter and giving teams the right ingredients to accomplish their specific goals. Teams use Freehand to brainstorm, create, test, and develop new ideas; unify and connect team members across disciplines and distances; and improve workflows, maintain a single source of truth, and more efficiently make actionable decisions. Our platform allows teams to collaborate at any point with stakeholders, giving individuals the visibility and know-how they require to drive work forward. InVision customers include 100% of the Fortune 100, and organizations including American Express, Adidas, Boeing, Ford Motor, Netflix, HBO, Ikea, Slack and Virgin Atlantic. | $115M / Series F / Dec 11, 2018 | ||
| Handshake is a college career network that helps students and recent graduates find their next opportunity.The company's network gives students access to more career opportunities and insights, provides employers with more comprehensive and efficient access to talent, and gives colleges more tools to drive student engagement and increasestudent employmentHandshake was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Denver and London, England. | $40M / Series C / Oct 31, 2018 | ||
| Pendo is a platform that helps product managers and teams better understand how their users engage with their software products. Pendo's product experience platform enables businesses to quickly and efficiently turn product knowledge into actionable insights, ushering in a new era of businesses that prioritize products. Pendo's customersinclude global leaders such as Verizon, Morgan Stanley, LabCorp, OpenTable, Okta, Salesforce, and Zendesk. Pendo's Mind the Product and customer forums, sponsored events, and podcasts strive to help product and digital leaders around the world succeed. Pendo is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, with offices across the world. | $50M / Series D / Sep 12, 2018 | ||
| Rover.com connects pet parents with the nation’s largest network of loving and trustworthy pet sitters and dog walkers. Through Rover, pet parents can discover, book, and manage personalized care for their dogs, including pet sitting, dog walking, in-home dog boarding, and doggy daycare. Founded on the belief that everyone should have theopportunity to experience the unconditional love of a dog, Rover improves and simplifies life for pet parents and the dogs they love. | $125M / Series G / May 24, 2018 | ||
| Niantic focuses on developing games that encourage outdoor activity and social engagement. It aims to create products for movement, exploration, and face-to-face social interaction. Its notable products include Ingress and Pokémon GO. | $200M / Series B / Nov 24, 2017 | ||
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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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Fraser Kelton
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James Kuklinski
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What does Megan Quinn invest in?
Megan Quinn invests primarily in Software, Internet and Apps startups, most often at Series D and Series C stage. Most of the 25 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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The most recent investment recorded for Megan Quinn closed in Dec 2022. Shizune tracks 25 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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