ABOUT US

SparkLabs Cyber + Blockchain accelerator is located in Washington D.C., which is one of the world's top cybersecurity ecosystems. Along with D.C.'s strengths, SparkLabs is bringing its global network and experience of investing in over 200 startups across six continents to this new global accelerator program.

This program will focus on two industry verticals: cybersecurity and blockchain. Both will have more of an enterprise bent, but we will be looking for innovations across the spectrum.

THE TEAM

Ray Ozzie


[Advisor]

Founder & CEO of Talko
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Michael Crow


[Advisor]

President of Arizona State University
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Charlie Lee


[Advisor]

Creator of Litecoin
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Richard A. DeMillo


[Advisor]

Executive Director of the Center for 21st Century Universities
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Eric Ly


[Advisor]

Co-founder & CEO of Hub
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Brian Park


[Co-founder & Managing Partner at SparkLabs Cyber+Blockchain]

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Mike Bott


[Co-founder & Managing Partner at SparkLabs Cyber+Blockchain]

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Rob DeMillo


[Partner at SparkLabs Cyber+Blockchain]

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Frank Meehan


[Partner at SparkLabs Cyber+Blockchain]

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Ryan Selkis


[Venture Partner]

CEO of Messari
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Samson Mow


[Venture Partner]

CSO at Blockstream & Founder & CEO at Pixelmatic
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Andrew Lee


[Venture Partner]

Co-founder of Handshake.org
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Monique Morrow


[Venture Partner]

Co-founder & President of the Humanized Internet
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Meet our top-tier global mentors from cybersecurity and blockchain ecosystem.

MENTORS

Jason Hsu


[Mentor]

Legislator at-large from Taiwan
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Teymour Farman-Farmaian



[Mentor]

SVP & Head of U.S. at Xapo
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San Eng


[Mentor]

Founder & Partner of Digital Alchemy Holdings
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Chenxi Wang


[Mentor]

Managing General Partner at Rain Capital
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John Matherly


[Mentor]

Founder of Shodan
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Edward Lee


[Mentor]

Director of LINE Tech Plus & Product Head for BITBOX
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Galina Antova


[Mentor]

Co-founder & Chief Business Development Officer at Claroty
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Robert Schwentker


[Mentor]

Founding President & Chief Operator at Blockchain University
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Elliot Han


[Mentor]

Chief Operating Officer at Passport
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Ian Lee


[Mentor]

Venture Fund Lead of IDEO CoLab Ventures
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Natalie Deng


[Mentor]

Business Development Director at Qtum Foundation
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Zeki Mokhtarzada



[Mentor]

Co-founder of Webs
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Marc Shedroff


[Mentor]

VP & Global Product Partnerships at Twitter
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Eric Yuan


[Mentor]

SVP of Business Development for ICONIZ
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John Wise



[Mentor]

CEO of Loci
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Jonathan Charles


[Mentor]

Principal of Samsung Catalyst Fund
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Kelly Nguyen


[Mentor]

Co-founder & CEO of IDLogiq
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Brian Hoffman


[Mentor]

CEO & Co-founder of OB1
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Isaac Rockett


[Mentor]

VP of Operations at London Trust Media
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Steve Chen


[Mentor]

CEO of PFP Cybersecurity, Investor at Blu Ventures
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Teddy Zee


[Mentor]

Producer & Entertainment, Media & Technology Executive
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Donnie Yancey


[Mentor]

Chief Revenue Officer at X-Moda Social
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Martin McKeay


[Mentor]

Senior Security Advocate at Akamai
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Sinhae Lee


[Mentor]

Partner at GBIC
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Sabrina Tachdjian


[Mentor]

Head of Investments at Unblock
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Brian McMahon


[Mentor]

President of Platforms & Data at Fractal Industries
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Ann Greenberg


[Mentor]

Founder: ION, Gracenote, Sceneplay & Hugging Company
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Chris Eberle


[Mentor]

Co-founder & COO at Swarm.fund
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Edgar Seah


[Mentor]

Head of Asia Pacific Region at Hedera Hashgraph & Swirlds
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Phil Zamani


[Mentor]

Chairman of the board at Aergo
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Bob Dinkel


[Mentor]

Managing Director at Pierce Capital Partners
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Frank Schuil


[Mentor]

CEO & Co-founder of Safello
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Steve Chen


[Mentor]

Founder of Modernist
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Anna-Marie Wascher


[Mentor]

CEO & founder of Flat World Partners
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Wayne Chiang


[Mentor]

Co-founder at ThreatQuotient
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Jacob Farber


[Mentor]

Partner at Ouroboros LLP
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Erica Kang


[Mentor]

Founder & CEO at KryptoSeoul
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Ted Kim


[Mentor]

CEO & Co-founder at Zikto
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Yanqi Zhang


[Mentor]

Co-founder & COO of Ofo
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Ana De Sousa


[Mentor]

Head of Advisory at FalconX
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Terrence Berland


[Mentor]

Managing Partner of Kirenaga Partners LLC
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Peter Luce


[Mentor]

Founder of Ouroboros LLP
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Jeremy Tunnell


[Mentor]

Co-founder of Thumbtack
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Jamie Finn


[Mentor]

Co-founder & President of Securitize
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Mike Del Ponte



[Mentor]

Founder of Soma
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Dmitry Dain


[Mentor]

Co-founder & CTO at Virgil Security
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Rujul Zaparde


[Mentor]

Product Manager of Trips at Airbnb
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Chul Yim


[Mentor]

Head of SLED & Public Healthcare at Zimperium
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Rohit Kinra


[Mentor]

Director of Product Management at Verisign
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Jay Eum


[Mentor]

Co-founder & Managing Director at Translink Capital
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Andy Cipra


[Mentor]

CCO & CMO at Safe Rx
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Anthony Nicalo


[Mentor]

Co-founder of Finhaven
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Michael W. Wellman


[Mentor]

CEO & founder at Virgil Security
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Steven Kim


[Mentor]

Senior Director, Products & Innovation at SAP
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Junya Hirano


[Mentor]

Co-Founder at HashHub
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Program

SparkLabs Cyber + Blockchain will run a 4-month accelerator program for seed to early-stage startups twice a year. The accelerator will invest $50,000 in all startups in exchange for up to 6% equity.

Each startup gets matched with 2 to 4 mentors. We consider our global mentors to be our greatest asset, and believe that our startups will grow exponentially through our regular sessions with our world-class mentors and various partners across the SparkLabs ecosystem.

Our first batch will start in March 2019, and applications will begin in January 2018.
Please contact us at brian@sparklabscyber.com for any inquiries.