Sparking Capital

www.sparkingcapital.com

Sparking Capital focuses on pre-seed and seed stage investments (up to €300,000 per ticket) that are industry agnostic but with preference for consumer internet, marketing-tech, supply chain-tech, fin-tech, property-tech, and circular economy-tech startups with 'differentiating value propositions, disruptive business models which have the potential to become national champions and/or scale up fast internationally.'

Check Size

Up to $300K

Stages

Pre Seed, Seed

Focus Areas

Consumer, Adtech, Logistics Supply Chain

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Investment Thesis

Sparking Capital believes in being ‘hands on investors’ who develop businesses together with founders, leveraging their multifunctional expertise as entrepreneurs and former C-Level executives in multinational corporations. They focus on backing entrepreneurs with ‘unique industry insights, powerful vision, passion, courage and excellence in the execution of their plans’ and aim to ‘spark the growth of the startups we invest in, side by side with their founders, to become great companies that create long lasting competitive advantages.’

What Sets Them Apart

Hands-on investor approach - developing business together with founders rather than passive capital
Multi-functional expertise from partners' backgrounds in C-Level positions at multinational corporations (marketing, operations, supply chain, finance)
Business network leverage - connecting startups with network to 'sharpen strategic approach, acquire customers profitably, strengthen unit economics'
International scaling facilitation through 'national and European network of VCs'
Lean startup movement pioneer - dedicated to sharing effective business strategies
Portfolio evidence in technical sectors - backed Industry 4.0, fintech, speech recognition, and property-tech startups