Spero Ventures
VC Fund
Redwood City, United States
Spero Ventures is a VC fund in Redwood City focused on Software and Internet. Spero Ventures makes venture investments in the things that make life worth living - wellbeing; sustainability; learning, work, and play.
- Total investments:
- 66
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Spero Ventures invests in
Stages Spero Ventures invests in
Countries Spero Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.3M–$7M
- Series A
- $7.5M–$21M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 13 (20%)
- Internet 8 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (11%)
- Education 6 (9%)
- Health Care 6 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 26 (39%)
- Seed 19 (29%)
- Funding Round 7 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (3%)
- Series B 2 (3%)
Country
- United States 41 (62%)
- Israel 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Andrew Parker
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 31 | Find email | |
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Brandon Walker
Investor
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Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Marc Tarpenning
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 15 | Find email | |
Sara Eshelman
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Shripriya Mahesh
Co-Founder and General Partner
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Co-Founder and General Partner | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Sora Fuel
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Sora Fuel makes jet fuel from just air, water, and renewable energy. Sora Fuel combine carbon capture and utilization into a single process, dramatically reducing the amount of energy required to produce SAF, enabling a truly affordable, carbon-negative drop-in solution. | $14.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 08, 2026 | |
Mobius Materials
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Mobius Materials develops and supplies advanced silicon-based materials designed to improve performance and efficiency in energy storage and semiconductor applications. The company’s core technology focuses on producing high-purity silicon materials engineered for use in lithium-ion battery anodes, where they help increase energy density and extendbattery life compared to conventional graphite-based solutions. Its materials are designed to integrate into existing battery manufacturing processes, supporting adoption without requiring major changes to production infrastructure. Mobius Materials also applies its silicon processing capabilities to specialty materials used in electronics and semiconductor manufacturing, addressing applications that require precise material properties and consistency. The company supports customers through material development, testing, and collaboration aimed at optimizing performance for specific use cases. Its offerings are used by organizations working on next-generation batteries and electronic components that require improved capacity, durability, and material efficiency. | $3M / Seed / Dec 12, 2025 | |
Pickaxe
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Pickaxe allows non-technical creative professionals to test prompts, deploy them as tools at scale, and continuously improve their tools through real-time monitoring. | $3.8M / Seed / Sep 16, 2025 | |
Euclid Power
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Euclid Power operates in the renewable energy sector, providing a comprehensive platform for project management, investment, and execution. The company offers data-driven solutions that span from project development to asset management. Euclid Power's platform is designed to simplify the process of renewable energy project development andexecution. | $20M / Series A / Sep 05, 2025 | |
Wattch
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Wattch is a software development company that offers scalable energy data analytics platforms for the renewable energy industry. It enables observability, intelligence, and control for any renewable energy system. | $6M / Seed / Aug 05, 2025 | |
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Wattch
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Wattch is a software development company that offers scalable energy data analytics platforms for the renewable energy industry. It enables observability, intelligence, and control for any renewable energy system. | $6M / Seed / Aug 05, 2025 | |
Remark
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Remark is a product guidance startup for online stores that brings the in-store experience online. | $16M / Series A / Jul 01, 2025 | |
Persist AI
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Persist assist pharmaceutical companies in developing long-acting formulations 50% faster. Because the formulation development process is manual and relies on scientific intuition, it takes a pharmaceutical company 5-10 years to develop a long acting formulation for a drug. This effort is divided into five years of pre-clinical development and fiveyears of clinical testing. Their goal is to use machine learning and automation to reduce the time required for pre-clinical formulation development to three months, making the formulation development process 50% faster. | $12M / Series A / Mar 19, 2025 | |
Mast Reforestation
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Mast Reforestation built the only vertically integrated solution to reforest the growing pool of millions of acres that have been damaged by wildfire. The company removes the financial, procedural, and seed supply barriers that typically stand in the way of getting reforestation done, which led to a large and growing project pipeline. It recentlyacquired two legacy businesses to become the largest seed and seedling vendor in the West, which is the primary bottleneck to reforestation. Mast is now executing on the project backlog by leveraging project finance to generate high-quality carbon removal credits for corporate buyers. | $25M / Series B / Feb 11, 2025 | |
Aralez Bio
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Aralez Bio uses engineered enzymes to make valuable products in a sustainable way.The company has invented a novel enzymatic method for synthesizing noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) also called unusual or unnatural amino acids. Its proprietary approach enables over 100 ncAAs to be synthesized with perfect enantiopurity in just a single step, withwater as the only byproduct | $12M / Series A / Oct 29, 2024 | |
| See all 66 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Spero Ventures invest in?
Spero Ventures invests primarily in Software, Internet and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 66 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 Spero Ventures's check size?
Spero Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$7M at Seed and $7.5M–$21M 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 Spero Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Spero Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Spero Ventures?
The team at Spero Ventures includes Andrew Parker (General Partner), Brandon Walker (Investor) and Marc Tarpenning (Venture Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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