Yasmin Razavi

General Partner at Spark Capital

San Francisco, California

Overview

Yasmin Razavi is a General Partner at Spark Capital in San Francisco, California, where she has successfully invested in companies like Qdrant and Deel at various funding stages. With a background in product management at Snapchat, Inc., she brings expertise in entrepreneurship, strategy, and business analysis to her role, focusing on sectors like Developer Tools and FinTech in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience

Spark Capital

General Partner
2017 - Current
Generalist, multi-stage VC firm with $13B AUM. I have led Spark’s investments in: Ada, Anthropic, Deel, Earnin, Marqeta ($MQ), MatX, Optimism (OP Labs), Pika, Qdrant, Superblocks, Tenderly, Uniswap.

Spark Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in the consumer, commerce, FinTech, software, frontier, and media sectors.

sparkcapital.com

Anthropic

Board Member
2023
Led the series C (first institutional investor in the company), pre launch and before the world got to meet Claude!

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that focuses on increasing the safety of large-scale AI systems.

Raised $13,740,377,627.00 from Amazon.

anthropic.com

Deel

Board
2020
For the first time ever: a single global engine for payroll. Series B lead

MatX

Board Member
2024
AI chips! Series A lead

Pika

Board Member
2024
Full stack video model to product company. Series B lead

Pika is a startup that develops an AI-powered platform for editing and generating films from captions and still images.

Raised $135,000,000.00 from SV Angel, Greycroft, AIspace Ventures, Sahin Boydas, Jared Leto, Spark Capital, Andrej Karpathy, Nat Friedman, Makers Fund and Aaron Levie.

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