Collective Spark

Collective Spark is a venture investor that partners with ambitious technology founders early on. It looks for driven builders who want to create scalable businesses, and it invests at pre-seed, seed and Series A, where it believes it adds most value.

What Collective Spark does

• Early-stage funding: capital at pre-seed, seed and Series A.
• Product and technology help: operating support for engineering and product teams.
• Growth and marketing help: support for acquiring customers.
• Strategy, recruitment and finance: hands-on assistance in these functions.

Customers and markets

The firm is mostly open on category but has mainly backed fintech, marketplaces, software for enterprises, gaming and machine learning. Its portfolio includes a home services marketplace in the Middle East and North Africa, a secondhand furniture marketplace in Turkey, a farm inputs platform, a digital mental health service and call centre software.

Key facts

• Stages: pre-seed, seed and Series A
• Sectors: fintech, marketplaces, SaaS, gaming, ML and AI
• Markets: Turkey, the Middle East and beyond