US-based venture capital firm Spark Capital has announced that John Melas-Kyriazi will join its Boston branch as an early-stage technology investor.
Melas-Kyriazi’s background is in science. He announced the change on his Tumblr blog after spending two years as chief financial officer at US-based start-up accelerator programme StartX, an affiliate of Stanford University where he will remain an advisor.
Spark Capital typically invests as part of series A and seed funding rounds. It is best known for leading early financing rounds for Twitter, Tumblr, OMGPOP and Adap.tv.
– Photo of John Melas-Kyriazi courtesy of LinkedIn