Arpan Shah

General Partner, Early·Spark Capital

Bio

Professional summary

Arpan Shah is a General Partner, Early at Spark Capital, where he works with fintech, AI, and enterprise infrastructure companies. He previously joined the founding team at Robinhood, founded Flannel, which Plaid acquired in 2021, led infrastructure, developer-efficiency, and data work at Plaid, and later invested at Pear VC and as a Sequoia scout.

Background

Career, education, and skills

Career history

Spark CapitalGeneral Partner, EarlyPresent
Pear VCPartner, Investing Team
Sequoia CapitalScout
PlaidEngineering Leader
FlannelFounder2021
RobinhoodFounding Team and Data Lead

Education

Stanford UniversityElectrical Engineering and Computer Science

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