Alex Finkelstein
Co-founder & General Partner, Early
Spark Capital
Co-founder and General Partner at Spark Capital focused on early-stage, product-led, unconventional companies and founders outside obvious patterns.
Bio
Professional summary
Yasmin Razavi is General Partner, Growth, at Spark Capital. Her official profile emphasizes a data- and market-led approach rather than gut-based decision-making. She studied engineering at the University of Toronto and earned an MBA from Harvard. Before Spark, she worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, as an investor at Index Ventures in London, and as a product manager at Snap, where she worked on monetization technology. At Spark, she focuses on growth-stage companies after product-market fit, with a particular emphasis on go-to-market execution and helping founders scale beyond their first act.
Investment focus
Stage, sector, and overall fit
Stage
verified: Growthverified: post-product-market fit
Sector
verified: go-to-marketinference: growth-stage software, consumer technology, monetization, data-driven scaling
Thesis
Growth-stage companiesPost-product-market-fit companiesGo-to-market executionData-driven investing and scalingTechnology monetization and product-led growth
Notable companies
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
SnapIndex VenturesMcKinsey & CompanyAdeptCruiseDiscordPostmates
How to approach
Framing and angles for outreach
Pitch framing
Pitch with granular data on why the business works, how go-to-market scales, and what the next act beyond initial product-market fit could become.
Personalization hooks
- 1Avoid a purely charisma-led pitch; support claims with market, data, and GTM evidence.
- 2Connect the story to post-PMF scaling and act-two expansion.
Background
Career, education, and skills
Career history
- Spark CapitalGeneral Partner (Growth)Present
- Snap Inc.Product Manager, MonetizationPrior
- Index Ventures (London)InvestorPrior
- McKinsey & CompanyConsultantPrior
Education
- University of TorontoB.S. Engineering
- Harvard Business SchoolMBA
Skills
Growth InvestingGo-to-Market StrategySaaSProduct ManagementData-Driven Investing
Languages
EnglishPersian/Farsi
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