a reflection point. this year we backed 25 startups - from seed to late stage. our class of 2024. since jne of last year when we started our fund. we've backed 50 startups exactly. here's to 2025. 🤝🔥

crazy to think this year that Spark 💎 managed to fund 25 startups this year. 25 incredible founders that we've fell in love with, supported their vision.

happy to share our newest investment! 👊 👥 Blue Wire (Blue Wire) 💡 Blue Wire is an audio-centric media company hosting podcasts with athletes, influencers, and professional sports franchises. 👉 bluewirepods.com

happy to share our newest investment! 👊 👥 Ripple $XRP 💡 XRP is built to transform the global financial services space and to be the most practical cryptocurrency for applications. 👉 ripple.com/xrp/ disclosure regarding publicly traded digital assets 👇

our first investment into publicly traded digital assets. I truly believe that $XRP is changing finance for good.

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we're happy to share our newest investment! 👊 👥 Cherry Bombe (@CherryBombemag) 💡 Cherry Bombe is a media company celebrating women & cool creatives in the world of food & drink. 👉 cherrybombe.com

we've been hard at work at GRFK and I couldn't be prouder. it is with great honor and excitement that I get to reveal our entire umbrella - spanning brands across content, culture, creative and consumer. truly believe there is nothing like what we have built.

happy to reveal our newest investment! 👊 👥 Pirouette (@pirouettemed) 💡 developing a low-profile, disk-shaped, rugged injection device with a patient-centric focus on affordability, portability, and usability, along with other medical devices. 👉 pirouettemedical.com

happy to reveal our newest investment 🔥 👥 Doorvest (Doorvest) 💡 Doorvest is a full service real estate investment platform that simply helps people own passive income rental homes 👉 doorvest.com

happy to reveal the newest investment we've done 👥 Sweater (Sweater Ventures) 💡 a fintech company building the first fully-managed venture capital fund that is open to everyday investors 👉 sweaterventures.com

8 years of great times and helping founders, here's to many more! #MyXAnniversary

we're excited to share our newest startup investment! 👊🔥 👤 @cadenceotc 💡 On mission is to increase over the counter access to safe, effective and affordable contraceptives, like Zena™️ and the Morning After Pill.™️ 👉 cadenceotc.com

excited to share our newest investment! 👊 👤 AptDeco 💡 online furniture resale marketplace making buying & selling easy, affordable + accessable. 👥: Comcast Ventures, YC, SVA, Kingscrowd, Initialized, FJ Labs, HearstLab, 645 Ventures 👉 aptdeco.com

Happy to share that Spark and I have made an investment into AptDeco. The online homeware space has seen a number of M&A creating consolidation, AptDeco also achieved profitability in October, plus investing in more female founders is always a good thing!

excited to share our newest investment! 👊 👤 Sphere 💡 climate friendly investing for everyone + leading platform for measuring & improving climate impact via 401(k)'s 👥: Climate Capital, Pale blue dot, Fairbridge, Cool Climate Collective 👉 Oursphere.org

talked a few months ago with Alex Wright-Gladstein & loved hearing her story, seeing industry support for what they do + getting to know her also. Sphere is a really great company creating an impact. 🔥🫡 Plus part of my commitment to go out and invest in more female founders in the world.

happy to share today we + GRFK have invested in... 👉 Diem 💡 social search engine designed for women & the LGBTQIA+ community 📱askdiem.com 🤝 Precursor Ventures, Gaingels, Alumni Ventures, Acrew Capital, Flybridge, XFactor Ventures, & more.

excited to share we + GRFK are investing into HITMKR (HITMKR). 💡a platform that empowers independent artists to grow their fanbase + monetize their music, merch, and live experiences through direct-to-fan engagement & exclusive content.. 👉 hitmkr.com