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Andrew Parker

General Partner at Spero Ventures

Waialua, Hawaii

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $2,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $25,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

Skills

Entrepreneurship
Mobile Devices
Product Management
Start-ups
Usability Testing
User Interface Design
Venture Capital
Wordpress

Education

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2020

    Spero Ventures in an early stage venture capital firm that invests in mission-driven founders building things that make life worth living. Our investment focus areas are wellbeing; sustainability; learning, work, and play. Check out our portfolio - http://spero.vc/companies/

2019 - 2020

  • Member

    2019 - 2020

2010 - 2019

  • General Partner

    2013 - 2019

    Led investments in: Carta, Panorama Education, Quantopian, Timehop, Particle, Kik, Socratic, and Nylas Board of Directors service: Carta, Splash, Panorama Education, Quantopian, Timehop, Socratic, Particle, and Nylas

  • Principal

    2011 - 2013

  • Senior Associate

    2010 - 2011

  • Associate

    2007 - 2010

    Sourced investment opportunities in: StackOverflow, Foursquare, and Heyzap

  • Analyst

    2006 - 2007

  • Producer

    2005 - 2006

    My responsibilities included UI Design, User Testing, Technical Specifications, Product Management, and Rapid Prototyping.

Groupspace.org

2004 - 2005

  • Developer

    2004 - 2005

    Wrote code on for a LAMP stack, plus some shell scripting to glue it all together. Did sysadmin work for a RedHat server running our LAMP stack. Handled UI Design and Rapid Prototyping.