Investing Profile

William Reed

VCInvestor

General Partner at Spark Capital

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Networks William is a member of

BofA Securities Network

166 CONNECTIONS

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Network

92 CONNECTIONS

Mercury Network

41 CONNECTIONS

Scale AI Network

38 CONNECTIONS

Spark Capital Network

33 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Spark Capital General Partner

Investment Range

$5.0M - $15.0M

Sweet Spot

$10.0M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$2.1B

William Reed is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Analytics (Series B)Cloud Infrastructure (Series B)Enterprise (Series B)Security (Series B)SMB Software (Series B)San Francisco Bay Area Health IT (Series B)

William Reed's Investments On Record (19)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Cadence Solutions	Series CJun 2026$100M	$240M
Co-investors: Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Kareem Zaki (Thrive Capital)
Baseten	Series FJun 2026$1.5B Series DSep 2025$150M Series CFeb 2025$75M Series BMar 2024$40M	$2.1B
Co-investors: Somesh Dash (IVP), Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Shravan Narayen (IVP), Mustafa Suleyman (Greylock), Cristina Cordova (First Round Capital), Adam Bain (01 Advisors), Dick Costolo (01 Advisors), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), Jay Simons (Bond), Ron Pragides (GTMFund), Scott Belsky (A24), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Greg Brockman (OpenAI), Dylan Field (Figma, Inc.), DJ Patil (‎GreatPoint Ventures), Jean-Denis Greze (ASDF Ventures), Charles Zedlewski
Cardless	Series CSep 2025$60M	$110M
Co-investors: Jack Groetzinger (Founder Collective), Zach Weinberg (Multiple Startups/Funds), Khaled Helioui (Plural), Andy Dunn (Red Swan Ventures), Daniel Kennedy (Operator Stack), Brian Bell (Team Ignite Ventures), Andrew Vigneault (Flexcap Ventures), Nicky Goulimis
Medallion	Series DAug 2025$43M Series CJun 2022$35M Series BNov 2021$30M Series AJun 2021$20M	$150M
Co-investors: Natalie Sandman (Spark Capital), Sangeen Zeb (GV (Google Ventures)), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Joe Montana (Liquid 2 Ventures), Zachary Sims (Bowery Capital), Andrew Reed (Sequoia Capital), Jarrod Dicker (TCG (The Chernin Group)), Nathan Doctor (Infinite Capital), Ryan Bubinski (Several Startups), Kevin Alvarez-Fung (Predictive VC), Daniel Gross (Various), Vishal Lugani (aCrew Capital), Nat Friedman (Self-employed), Elliott Cohen (Moving Capital), Peter Reinhardt (ARCADIAN Fund), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Will Gaybrick, Edvard Engesæth
Underdog Fantasy	Series CMar 2025$70M	$80M
Co-investors: Bryan Rosenblatt (Craft Ventures), Mark Cuban (PKF The Consulting House, Dubai - UAE), Steve Aoki (Dim Mak), Matthew Dellavedova (Athletico Ventures), Kevin Durant (oklahoma city thunder), Nitesh Banta (Getaround), Nasir Jones (QueensBridge Venture Partners), Kevin Carter (Night Capital), Odell Beckham Jr., Mark Pincus, Mitch Garber, Breon Corcoran
Abridge	Series DFeb 2025$250M Series CFeb 2024$150M Series BOct 2023$30M	$760M
Co-investors: Sameer Dholakia (Bessemer Venture Partners), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Steve Kraus (Bessemer Venture Partners), David George (Andreessen Horowitz), Andy Weissman (Union Square Ventures), Esther Dyson (Union Square Ventures), Jules Maltz (IVP), Somesh Dash (IVP), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Galym Imanbayev (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Vijay Patel (CVS Health Ventures), Faraz Rahman (CVS Health Ventures), Jamie Goldstein (Pillar VC), Yoshua Bengio (LawZero)
Headway	Series DJul 2024$100M Series COct 2023$130M	$330M
Co-investors: Scott Kupor (Andreessen Horowitz), Soheil Mirpour (Global Founders Capital), Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Anna Barber (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Donald Stalter (Sunshine Lake), Bryan Rosenblatt (Craft Ventures), Amit Kumar (Accel-KKR)
Scale	Series FMay 2024$1B Series CAug 2019$100M	$1.6B
Co-investors: Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), John Curtius (Tiger Global Management), Andy Chen (Coatue), Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Erica Van (Intel Capital), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Peter Thiel (The Founders Fund), Kris Fredrickson (Verified Capital), Lucas Swisher (Coatue Management), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Daniel Levine (Accel-KKR), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Mike Volpi (Hanabi Capital), Neil Mehta (Greenoaks Capital), Nat Friedman (Self-employed), Scott Belsky (A24), Mike Krieger (Anthropic), Charlie Cheever (Export Development Canada \| Exportation et développement Canada), Ilya Sukhar (Matrix), Bryan Rosenblatt (Craft Ventures), Greg Brockman (OpenAI), Adam D'Angelo, Drew Houston

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William Reed's Experience

Series C Investor, Director Axis, acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise company in 2023Present

Series B Investor, Director AfreshPresent

Series C Investor, Director HeadwayPresent

Series B Investor, Series C Investor, Director AbridgePresent

Series B Investor, Series C Investor, Director BasetenPresent

Series C Investor, Board Observer Charlie HealthPresent

Series C Investor Base Power CompanyPresent

Series C Investor, Director CardlessPresent

Series C Investor, Director cadencePresent

Series C Investor Neros TechnologiesPresent

Investment Banking Bank of America Merrill LynchPresent

Investment Banking BofA SecuritiesPresent

Investor Welsh, Carson, Anderson & StowePresent

Private Equity Welsh, Carson, Anderson & StowePresent

Series C Investor Clover HealthPresent

Series C Investor, Board Director Axis, acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise company in 2023Present

General Partner Spark CapitalPresent

Series C Investor, Board Director BirdPresent

Series C Investor, Board Director HeadwayPresent

Series B Investor InstabasePresent

Series B, Series E Investor, Board Observer HandshakePresent

Personal Investor Fort Point Beer CompanyPresent

Series B Investor, Board Director DoolyPresent

Series C Investor DiscordPresent

Series C Investor, Board Director Clarify Health SolutionsPresent

Series B Investor, Board Director Catalyst SoftwarePresent

Series D Investor BenchlingPresent

Series C Investor, Board Director AxisPresent

Series B Investor, Board Director AfreshPresent

Series B Investor TrialSparkPresent

Series C Investor, Board Director SmartRentPresent

Series C Investor Scale AIPresent

Series C Investor, Board Director MessageBirdPresent

Series F Investor, Board Observer Rover.comPresent

Series C Investor, Board Director Axis SecurityPresent

Series B Investor, Board Director AutogenAIPresent

Series C Investor, Board Observer TeamsharesPresent

Series C Investor, Board Observer UnderdogPresent

Series B Investor Formation BioPresent

Series C Investor MercuryPresent

Series B Investor, Board Observer HandshakePresent

Series B Investor, Board Director BasetenPresent

Series B Investor, Board Director AbridgePresent

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