# SparkLabs Global Ventures

> SparkLabs Global Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software and Apps. See 81 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 81
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 9%
- Fund size: $6.2M
- Last fund: Aug 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sparklabs-global-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/SparkLabsGlobal
- Website: http://www.sparklabsglobal.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sparklabsglobal

SparkLabs Global Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed-stage investment services to firms in the SaaS, healthcare, education, IoT, fintech, mobile, commerce, HR, gaming, security, and VR industries. It was founded in Dec 2013 and is based in California.Exceptional entrepreneurs, that are building strong, category defining companiesat highly advantageous valuations – can be found anywhere. The company has a team that is highly experienced in finding such talent and helping our entrepreneurs to develop, grow, network, and scale into other markets throughout the world.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $223k–$3M |
| Series A | $769k–$8.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 22 | 27% |
| Apps | 8 | 10% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 10% |
| Mobile | 7 | 9% |
| FinTech | 7 | 9% |

130 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 56 | 69% |
| Series A | 5 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 5% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 4% |
| Angel | 2 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 25 | 31% |
| South Korea | 14 | 17% |
| Singapore | 12 | 15% |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 10% |
| Peru | 1 | 1% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Awy Julianto | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/awy-julianto |
| Jonathan Teo | Advisor | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-teo |
| William Chu | Venture Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-chu-2 |
| Bernard Moon | Co-founder & Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bernard-moon |
| Eugene Kim | Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eugene-kim-4 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pierrot Company | Pierrot Company is a Korea-based circular commerce company focused on extending the lifecycle of IT devices through subscription, asset recovery, and cross-border trade. The company operates phoneGO, a device subscription service for consumers and businesses, and reGO, a service that helps organizations recover and monetize idle IT assets.Building on these operating data and supply networks, Pierrot Company is also developing reGO Trade, a global infrastructure layer for used IT device pricing, discovery, and transaction enablement. The company aims to improve transparency, liquidity, and reuse in the fragmented secondary market for electronics while reducing unnecessary e-waste.By combining operational know-how, market data, and international buyer networks, Pierrot Company is building a more efficient and scalable circular economy for IT assets. | $769K | Series A | Apr 01, 2026 |  |
| Splab | Splab creates and operates a calendar-based scheduling automation tool. Splab is located in Seoul, South Korea. |  | Seed | Feb 16, 2023 |  |
| Nitra | Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products. | $16M | Seed | Aug 23, 2022 |  |
| Tella | Service | $264K | Seed | Mar 12, 2021 |  |
| OpenSea | OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It includes collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract. | $2.1M | Seed | Nov 19, 2019 |  |
| bitsensing | Bitsensing is a radar technology startup focused on developing smart city solutions to improve citizens' quality of life. | $1M | Seed | Dec 01, 2018 |  |
| Stipop (YC S21) | Stipop offers messaging, video, and profile stickers for apps intended to enrich online communication. It helps product brands advertise their products with branded stickers on chat, stories, and comments. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 27, 2018 |  |
| Gideon | Gideon is a robotics and AI company specializing in automating complex material handling processes for logistics, warehousing, manufacturing, retail, and other industries. The company is transforming the loading bay with TREY—its autonomous forklift purpose-built for trailer loading and unloading, one of the most challenging tasks in logistics.Powered by (Physical) AI and computer vision, Gideon’s autonomous mobile robots operate safely in dynamic, unstructured environments, working alongside people and equipment to boost efficiency, reduce manual labor, and improve workplace safety. With operations in Croatia and the USA, Gideon serves customers across North America, the UK, and Ireland. Its solutions help businesses address labor shortages, rising logistics demands, and operational inefficiencies through flexible automation and real-time workflow orchestration. | $2.4M | Seed | Jul 23, 2018 |  |
| VITCON | VITCON offers products and services that make it easy for anyone to configure IoT.Vitcon develops and supplies “MODLINK”, a new concept built-in controller, which has been created with S/W and H/W technology and experienced accumulated over years.In addition, we provide free software that allows non-software engineers to use IoT byconnecting to MODLINK. | $2.2M | Series A | Jul 17, 2018 |  |
| Populus | Populus is a platform for cities to manage and price commercial fleets to deliver safer more sustainable streets. Over 100 cities around the world rely on Populus to receive GPS data from commercial vehicles, and are now leveraging their platform to create, manage, and enforce payment for access to curbs to prioritize transitions to lower carbontransportation. | $750K | Angel | May 06, 2018 |  |

10 of 81 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does SparkLabs Global Ventures invest in?

SparkLabs Global Ventures invests primarily in Software, Apps and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 81 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is SparkLabs Global Ventures's check size?

SparkLabs Global Ventures typically joins rounds of $223k–$3M at Seed and $769k–$8.6M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds SparkLabs Global Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact SparkLabs Global Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at SparkLabs Global Ventures?

The team at SparkLabs Global Ventures includes Awy Julianto (General Partner), Jonathan Teo (Advisor) and William Chu (Venture Partner), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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