Yasmin Razavi

General Partner, Growth·Spark Capital

San Francisco, California, United States

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.

Partneralization 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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