Arpan Shah is a General Partner at Spark Capital where he invests in Seed and Series A startups across fintech, data, APIs, developer tools, and AI. He primarily invests in the United States with a focus on the San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and the West Coast. He has invested in companies like Adept, Capella Space, Discord, Instawork, and Postmates. Before Spark Capital, he was a Partner at Pear VC, Head of Engineering: Developer Foundations & Data Platform at Plaid, an Investor (Scout) at Sequoia Capital, Co‑Founder & CEO of Flannel Inc., and Head of Data Platforms and Data Products at Robinhood; earlier roles include Teaching Assistant in CS110 at Stanford University and software engineering internships at Google and Fitbit. Arpan graduated from Stanford University and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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